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 ArgoCD Knowledge 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.