Senior Platform Engineer ( AWS )

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Senior Platform Engineer – Hybrid (London) – AWS / Kafka / Infrastructure as code (IaC) Location: Hybrid (2 days/week in London office) Type: Full-time, Permanent Salary: Competitive + Benefits About the Role We’re looking for a skilled Senior Platform Engineer to help shape and scale a modern cloud-native platform that underpins high-volume data processing. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on enabling development teams through robust infrastructure, automation, and tooling. You’ll be instrumental in evolving a lean, event-driven architecture that supports real-time data flows and complex backend services. Working in a collaborative environment, you’ll help drive platform strategy, improve developer experience, and ensure systems are secure, observable, and cost-efficient. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges, mentoring others, and building systems that make a real-world impact. especially in a domain where technology directly supports creative industries. Key Responsibilities Own the full lifecycle of platform development: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations. Support development teams with infrastructure and platform tooling. Collaborate with InfoSec and global platform teams to maintain security and compliance. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and cost optimisation strategies. Mentor and coach engineers on platform best practices. Tech Stack Highlights AWS (ECS, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, OpenSearch) Pulumi (TypeScript) for infrastructure as code Kafka (Confluent Cloud) for event-driven architecture GitHub Actions for CI/CD DataDog for observability Containerised microservices architecture What We’re Looking For Strong programming background (Java or TypeScript preferred) Experience designing scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure Familiarity with event-driven systems and Kafka Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure automation tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.) Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and collaborative modelling Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch) Bonus: Experience with monolith-to-microservices migrations Why Join? Flexible working (hybrid London) Enhanced holiday allowance Mental and physical health initiatives Pension scheme Inclusive, values-driven culture Work on meaningful tech that supports a growing industry
Location:
City Of London, Greater London, London; England, United Kingdom
Job Type:
FullTime

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