Platform Architect | Hybrid | £70,000-£100,000
About the Role:
We're partnering with a growing SaaS business to hire a senior Platform Architect to own the design, security, reliability, and operational management of their AWS platform and internal IT function.
This is a hands-on leadership role in a lean organisation where you'll shape cloud architecture, modernise a legacy platform into a cloud-native environment, and provide senior oversight across platform engineering, security, SRE, CI/CD, and operational IT.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Own the AWS platform architecture and modernisation roadmap, including migration from a Java monolith to microservices on EKS.
2. Define standards for containers, runtime environments, observability, tenancy, security, and infrastructure automation.
3. Lead SRE practices including SLI/SLOs, incident management, DR/BCP planning, post-mortems, and operational resilience.
4. Own platform security, secure SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and software supply chain governance.
5. Drive developer productivity through automation, self-service tooling, and platform standardisation.
6. Provide senior oversight of IT operations including service desk governance, endpoint management, onboarding/offboarding, patching, ITAM, and MSP/vendor management.
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