The candidate should meet the following requirements
Job Description
Role Description
The ideal candidate will have
We’re looking for a skilled Platform Engineer to join a forward-thinking Infrastructure Team. This role is ideal for someone passionate about cloud automation, scalability, and building secure, reliable platforms. You’ll play a key part in modernising deployment patterns, evolving cloud environments, and improving the reliability and resilience of production systems.
What You’ll Do
1. Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, EKS, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and CloudFront.
2. Lead and support the adoption of Kubernetes (EKS) for managing production and internal workloads.
3. Architect and implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
4. Drive continuous improvement in platform reliability, scalability, and cost optimisation.
5. Collaborate with SRE, Security, and Engineering teams to strengthen observability, monitoring, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
What You’ll Bring
6. Proven experience designing and automating AWS infrastructure.
7. Strong experience building IaC pipelines with Terraform and integrating them with CI/CD tools
8. Deep understanding of Kubernetes operations on AWS, including scaling, deployment automation, and monitoring.
9. Solid background in Linux administration, networking, and cloud security.
10. Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
11. Knowledge of database reliability.
12. Strong scripting skills.
13. A collaborative approach with a passion for improving systems through automation and consistency.
The role:
Pay - £60,000 - £90,000 - Depending on experience
Cambridge based - Hybrid - 3 days in office
Why Join You’ll work in a progressive engineering culture that values autonomy, technical excellence, and innovation. Expect real influence on architectural decisions, a supportive team, and opportunities to shape the future of a growing cloud platform.
Apply or message me ( John Magee) for more