AI-Enabled Platform Engineer — AWS DevOps Lead

ClearRoute; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Family friendly environment

Job summary

ClearRoute is seeking an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to redefine production paths through AI-enabled platform engineering. You will own the design and delivery of modern developer platforms on AWS, driving policy-as-code adoption across the SDLC and embedding AI tooling to accelerate and govern the delivery lifecycle.

We require hands-on experience with IaC, CI/CD, and security, plus a strong bias for building self-service tooling in a regulated enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS platform engineering experience with IaC
• Hands-on policy-as-code experience
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern production patterns
• Experience embedding governance into the SDLC
• Scripting skills in Python and/or Bash
• Experience with AI-assisted tooling in engineering workflows
• Strong security mindset for cloud-native systems
• Familiarity with SCPs and organization-level guardrails
• Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost governance
• Exposure to AI-driven pipeline automation

Responsibilities

• Design and build AWS-native developer platforms that modernise the path to production
• Extend policy-as-code principles into the SDLC (PR gates, compliance checks, pipeline guardrails)
• Integrate AI tooling to automate code review, security scanning, and deployment decisions
• Define and enforce golden paths for service onboarding, CI/CD, and infrastructure provisioning
• Build self‑service developer tooling that reduces cognitive load and accelerates delivery
• Ensure secure, scalable AWS environments using IAM, VPC, SCPs, and infrastructure-as-code
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed platform standards across the delivery lifecycle

Skills

CI/CD

Python/Bash

Security-minded

Collaboration

Platform mindset

Tools

AWS

CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform

OPA/Sentinel/AWS Config

Backstage/IDP tooling

SBOM/SLSA/Sigstore

ECS/EKS

Job description

ClearRoute is seeking an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to redefine production paths through AI-enabled platform engineering. You will own the design and delivery of modern developer platforms on AWS, driving policy-as-code adoption across the SDLC and embedding AI tooling to accelerate and govern the delivery lifecycle.

We require hands-on experience with IaC, CI/CD, and security, plus a strong bias for building self-service tooling in a regulated enterprise environment.