Salary: £45,000 - 45,000 per year Requirements: 2-5 years experience in cloud engineering, DevOps or platform engineering Strong hands-on experience with AWS Experience with Terraform and/or AWS CDK Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes Understanding of cloud security basics, including IAM, secrets management and secure deployments Experience supporting production systems, monitoring and troubleshooting Strong problem-solving mindset with an eye for detail Desirable: exposure to lakehouse concepts such as S3 and Iceberg Desirable: understanding of data architectures such as medallion Desirable: experience in multi-account AWS environments Desirable: awareness of governance and working in regulated or data-sensitive environments Responsibilities: Build and maintain platform components using Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and AWS CDK Support CI/CD pipelines for data platforms and services Help deliver lakehouse, ingestion and data serving capabilities Apply security, compliance and governance controls across deployments Monitor platform health, logging and alerting, and resolve issues quickly Support cost optimisation and efficient resource usage Collaborate with Platform, Data Engineering and AI teams to improve ways of working Work closely with engineers and data teams to deliver reliable, secure and scalable solutions Build and run our AWS-based data platform Technologies: AI AWS CI/CD Cloud DevOps IAM Support Security Terraform Mobile More: We are Microlise, a Midlands-based technology business operating for over thirty years and recently listed on the London Stock Exchange. Our solutions support many of the UKs leading grocery retailers and food logistics providers, as well as household names including JCB, Eddie Stobart, Carlsberg, Waitrose and Royal Mail. We are hiring a Data Platform Engineer on a 12-month fixed-term contract to help develop and operate a modern, governed data platform powering analytics, AI and data-driven decision making. This is an immediate opportunity to make a real impact, work on cutting-edge data and AI initiatives, and grow within a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering environment. We offer a 37.5-hour week with flexible working opportunities, a salary sacrifice EV Car Scheme, private medical insurance with Vitality Health, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays increasing with service, employee wellbeing support, an Employee Assistance Programme, and a range of staff discounts and extras. We are Great Place to Work certified and are committed to developing our people. last updated 24 week of 2026