Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

Senior DevOps Platform Engineer London We are currently supporting a leading organisation looking to hire an experienced Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to join their cloud engineering function. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled DevOps professional to work on complex cloud-native environments, designing and automating scalable platforms across AWS, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD ecosystems. The successful candidate will play a key role in building resilient cloud platforms, improving deployment automation, supporting containerised applications and driving DevOps best practices across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS environments
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation and automation frameworks
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitOps methodologies
• Manage Kubernetes platforms including EKS, container orchestration, Helm deployments and cluster optimisation
• Support application containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes-based architectures
• Implement GitOps delivery models using tools such as ArgoCD and Helm
• Develop reusable automation frameworks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployments
• Improve platform reliability, scalability and security through automation and engineering best practices
• Support cloud migrations from traditional data centre environments into modern cloud-native platforms
• Implement monitoring, observability and logging solutions across complex distributed systems
• Work closely with development, security and architecture teams to improve software delivery processes

Required Experience

• Strong commercial experience working as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
• Extensive hands‑on AWS experience including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS and networking services
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Strong Kubernetes experience including EKS, Helm, RBAC, networking and container management
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar tools
• Strong understanding of Linux systems administration and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef or similar
• Strong scripting ability using languages such as Bash, Python or PowerShell
• Understanding of cloud security principles including IAM, encryption, vulnerability management and compliance controls

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within regulated industries such as financial services, government or healthcare
• Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCDKnowledge of service mesh technologies including Istio or similar
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk or ELK
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP or private cloud
• Experience with security tooling including Vault, SonarQube, OWASP, Checkov or vulnerability scanning solutions
• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical platforms

This role would suit a Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Cloud Automation Specialist looking to work on challenging enterprise environments.