The Role: Senior AWS Platform Engineer
Contract: Permanent.
Salary: Up to £85,000 base salary + £5k on-call allowance annually + 10% on target bonus.
Location: London
Interview times: ASAP
Start date: ASAP
Senior AWS Platform Engineer is sought by a leading payments solutions and services provider in London to join their Cloud Engineering Team. Currently, our client is at an exciting point in its evolution and is continuing to scale. Consequentially, they require bright and passionate technologists to impact their DevOps mission in innovating AWS Cloud Platform utilising automation tools to ensure the performance and reliability of a highly transactional payments gateway system as well as your participation in an on-call rota somewhere between 1 in 4 and 1 in 3 weeks a month
As Senior AWS Platform Engineer you will be accountable for engineering scalable solutions which will be deployed within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Platform. As an instrumental member of the Cloud Engineering Team, you will collaborate with product colleagues and drive best-in practice in coding efficiency/performance and scalability of Web-based applications as well as ensuring the scaling of continuous integration and continuous deployment/delivery pipelines and deploying Infrastructure as a Code (IaaS) initiatives utilising Terraform to deploy in Kubernetes.
Senior AWS Platform Engineer opportunity there is tremendous scope to innovate product resources within a highly agile Team. If you seek autonomy and desire a challenge your expertise within an inventive, fast-moving Cloud Engineering Team; with growth for further learning, and personal growth; then please read on.
**My client regrettably is not in the position to support visa sponsorship on this opportunity and can only consider candidates who already have the correct permissions/visas for work in the UK or are a British nationals**
Senior AWS Platform Engineer permanent profile required:
- Accomplished background engineering Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.
- Well-practised in administering and deploying CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes.
- Solid fundamentals in Infrastructure as a Code (IaaS), and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible or Puppet.
- Coding skills in Python are fundamental, and skills in JavaScript are useful but not a prerequisite. Ideally, also be accomplished in PowerShell or Bash scripting.
- A background in Financial Services Payments domain or Payment gateways is useful but not a prerequisite to consideration.
- Bright and collaborative with an ability to be self-critical and open to further learning and development with an academic background with a Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer/Electrical/Software Engineering or similar.