Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer London or Cambridge (Hybrid) | Permanent | ‍ Infrastructure & Platform Engineering £70,000 - £100,000 per annum + bonus No Sponsorship Option

We’re partnering with a high-growth, product-led technology company to hire a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to join their Infrastructure team. This is a hands-on role focused on building secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms and evolving modern deployment practices across a mature AWS environment. You’ll play a key role in shaping infrastructure architecture, driving automation, and improving reliability across production systems used globally.

What You’ll Be Doing Design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure across services including EC2, EKS, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and CloudFront Lead the adoption and optimisation of Kubernetes (EKS) for production and internal workloads Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines using Terraform (or similar) integrated with CI/CD Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies including blue/green, rolling, and canary releases Improve platform resilience, scalability, and availability by eliminating single points of failure Enhance observability and monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch Partner with Security teams to embed best practices across IAM, secrets management, and cloud posture Optimise cloud performance and spend through automation and visibility tooling Contribute to incident response, post-incident reviews, and continuous operational improvementsWhat We’re Looking For Strong experience designing and operating AWS infrastructure in production environments Hands-on experience with Terraform and CI/CD-driven infrastructure provisioning Solid Kubernetes experience, ideally managing workloads on AWS EKS Strong Linux, networking, and cloud security fundamentals Experience with observability tooling and structured alerting practices Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and database operations Scripting and automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar) Collaborative mindset with a passion for improving engineering efficiencyWhy Apply? Opportunity to shape a modern cloud platform at scale High-impact role with real ownership of infrastructure strategy Work with experienced engineering and SRE teams Competitive salary + strong benefits package