Platform Engineer - AWS / Terraform

Job Title: Platform Engineer - AWS / Terraform.

Location: Remote with occasional travel to Head Office - Bristol or Milton Keynes.

Salary 60k - £75k Plus Benefits

Working Hours (Full time): Monday to Friday (40 hours per week)

08:30 - 17:30 (1 hour break)

Hybrid Working Pattern

Benefits: Hybrid Working Policy

Generous Company Pension (8% employer contribution)

Including Salary Exchange Scheme

Health Cash Plan

Access to a Benefits Portal and Employee Assistance Program

EV Car and Cycle to work scheme

Flexible weekly wellbeing time

Dedicated Volunteering Time

25 days holiday rising to 30, plus Bank Holidays

Comprehensive induction and training program

Our Client is the UK's leading provider of electronic and paper document distribution services, by providing our service to the NHS, Local Government, and a wide range of Commercial organisations, we make a real difference to patients, citizens and businesses through our innovative use of communication technology. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join our Research and Development team in a rapidly growing company.

Role:

As a Platform Engineer, working on our SaaS product range, you will manage our AWS Cloud production, dev and test infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code techniques and tools, along with CI/CD pipelines. You will employ DevOps and security best practices in all tasks. You will work closely with the Development and Test Managers and the Development and Test Teams.

Profile:

You're passionate about DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, Cloud Architecture, Monitoring, Security, CI/CD and Cloud-first deployment. You will bring a wealth of expertise from previous roles where you have managed multiple AWS accounts and a range of applications and architectures. You have good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and how it can be enhanced with DevOps.

Duties:

The primary activities are:

Manage and maintain AWS Cloud infrastructure across production, development, and test environments.
Design, implement, and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
Build, optimise, and support CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable, and secure software delivery.
Implement and enforce DevOps and security best practices, ensuring compliance with organisational and industry standards.
Monitor system performance, availability, and security, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Automate environment provisioning and configuration to reduce manual intervention and increase consistency.
Manage multiple AWS accounts and ensure appropriate governance, cost management, and security controls are in place.
Support Development and Test Teams by providing stable, scalable, and secure environments tailored to their needs.
Collaborate with Development and Test Managers to align platform services with the software development lifecycle.
Maintain and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to provide visibility and resilience across environments.
Evaluate and integrate new AWS services or DevOps tools to continuously enhance infrastructure capabilities.
Produce and maintain platform documentation and runbooks, ensuring knowledge is shared and accessible.
Contribute to incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues.
Track and report platform metrics, including performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.

Essential Experience:

Proven hands-on experience managing AWS Cloud infrastructure across production, development, and test environments.
Strong expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Terraform is essential) .
Demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins).
Good knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.).
Experience managing multiple AWS accounts with appropriate governance, billing, and security practices.
Strong understanding of DevOps principles and how they enhance the software development lifecycle.
Knowledge and application of cloud security best practices (IAM roles, policies, least-privilege access, encryption, patching).
Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK/Opensearch, Prometheus, Grafana).
Proficiency in scripting or automation languages (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
Track record of incident response and root cause analysis in cloud environments.
Ability to collaborate effectively with Development and Test teams, translating requirements into stable and secure environments.

Desirable Experience:

Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS).
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code testing frameworks (e.g., Terratest, Checkov).
Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
Exposure to serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway).
Experience with cost optimisation and monitoring tools in AWS (e.g., Trusted Advisor, Cost Explorer).
Knowledge of compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR) and applying them to cloud environments.
Experience integrating security scanning tools (Snyk, SonarQube, AWS Inspector) into CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Knowledge of hybrid or multi-cloud environments and migration strategies.
Experience building dashboards and metrics reporting for leadership and stakeholders (e.g., Grafana, Power BI, QuickSight).

Working Relationships:

You will work closely with the Development, Test and Product Teams to perform all planned and reactive tasks, escalating to the Development Manager where required.

Special/Additional Working Conditions:

You may work at any of our offices. Travel to any of our other offices may be required in exceptional circumstances to support our teams in these locations.

All offices are fully air-conditioned with a modern and spacious open-plan layout. The Head Office is situated close to J26 of the M5 where there is free on-street parking.

INDIT

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