Senior Platform Engineer

You will design, build, and own a self-service internal developer platform with golden paths, templates, and guardrails. You will embed AI-driven automation, own AWS infrastructure, establish platform standards, improve engineering workflows using data, and manage a roadmap based on engineers’ requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a self-service internal developer platform with golden paths, templates, and guardrails.
• Embed AI-driven automation for cost optimisation, anomaly detection, auto-remediation, and developer productivity.
• Own AWS cloud architecture, cost efficiency, reliability, and security posture.
• Gather requirements from engineers, prioritise the platform roadmap, and measure impact on developer velocity.
• Set and enforce standards for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and secrets management.
• Identify and resolve engineering workflow friction using data.
• Build, deploy, and operate platform capabilities autonomously.

Requirements

• Proven experience building an internal developer platform or developer experience function from scratch.
• Deep AWS expertise designing cost-efficient, production-grade cloud architectures.
• Strong DevOps and platform engineering knowledge, including Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience gathering requirements, managing a backlog, and measuring adoption for internal engineering customers.
• Experience working autonomously in fast-moving environments without a defined specification.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or an equivalent scripting or backend language.
• Experience building AI-powered tooling for platform and infrastructure workflows.