Senior Platform Engineer
Summary
Build and maintain cloud-native platforms on AWS using Terraform and Python, designing event-driven systems with Kafka for a product-focused company in London.
Salary: £100,000 - 120,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong hands-on experience with AWS
- Excellent knowledge of Terraform; CloudFormation considered
- Proven experience building event-driven architectures
- Strong hands-on experience with Kafka; Confluent experience beneficial
- Strong Python development skills
- Experience building cloud-native platforms and distributed systems
- Experience deploying and supporting applications across multiple environments
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Experience with EKS, Lambda, Fargate, DynamoDB, or similar AWS services is a plus
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and platform automation is a plus
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices is a plus
- Experience improving developer experience and internal engineering platforms is a plus
- Build, deploy, and maintain cloud-native platform components on AWS
- Develop infrastructure using Terraform
- Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka
- Develop automation, platform tooling, and services using Python
- Deploy code through multiple environments and support platform delivery
- Build scalable, resilient, secure, and observable platform services
- Troubleshoot complex distributed systems and production issues
- Improve developer experience through automation, self-service tooling, and platform enhancements
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities
- Contribute to platform engineering best practices and continuous improvement
- AWS
- Lambda
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Support
- Kafka
- Python
- Terraform
- Architect
More:
We are building a modern, cloud-native data platform on AWS and are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our team. This is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, deploying, and troubleshooting platform components, rather than producing architecture documentation or leading governance activities. You will work alongside experienced engineers to build the platform foundation that supports data products across the business. The role is based in London, with 2–3 days per week in the office.
last updated 33 week of 2026