AWS Platform Engineer
Summary
Designs, builds, and manages secure AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for UK government/defence projects, focusing on IaC, containerization, and platform automation while leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers.
Salary: £69,000 - 109,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial AWS experience
- Proven experience building new cloud infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automation and containerisation
- Experience with technologies such as Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
- Good understanding of AWS security principles and secure deployment practices
- Experience delivering within Agile teams
- Ability to lead technical solutions and take ownership of delivery
- Strong customer-facing and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers
- Be a British citizen
- Have lived permanently in the UK for the last five years
- Be eligible to obtain UK security clearance
- Design, build and manage secure AWS cloud infrastructure
- Create automated CI/CD pipelines
- Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform
- Build and operate platforms for containerised applications
- Support software deployment, monitoring and operational performance
- Lead technical delivery throughout the full project lifecycle
- Advise customers on AWS architecture and technology choices
- Manage senior stakeholder relationships and key project deliverables
- Mentor engineers and support junior team members
- Promote Agile best practices, including Scrum and Kanban
- Design and manage automated CI/CD pipelines
- Build and operate shared platform services for deployment, operation, and monitoring
- Create infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- Support
- Kanban
- Kubernetes
- Security
- Terraform
More:
We are supporting a leading technology consultancy seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Technical Consultant. You will join a fast-paced Agile delivery team, designing and building secure AWS infrastructure, automated deployment pipelines and shared platform services for high-profile UK Government and Defence projects. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone experienced in building new infrastructure, not solely maintaining existing environments. We offer flexitime with 37.5 hours per week, a learning budget for training, certifications and conferences, private healthcare and a matched pension, monthly socials and quarterly company meetups, plus career growth in a fast-moving, meaningful sector. The salary is £60,000 to £80,000 per year.
last updated 34 week of 2026