AI-First Cloud Platform Engineer

Moorepay; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Moorepay is building an AI-first HR and payroll platform on AWS. We seek a Platform Engineer to own infrastructure as code, deployment tooling and observability in a fast-paced Cloud Engineering team.

You'll work with TypeScript and Python, maintain golden paths, govern IAM and security, and help teams deploy safely. This role demands hands-on AWS expertise and the ability to move quickly while upholding standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience building and running production workloads on AWS.
• Infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, written in TypeScript and Python, and CloudFormation.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid, hands-on TypeScript development experience; maintaining deployment tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS accounts, networking and shared services under AWS Control Tower and AWS Organizations.
• Govern Control Tower guardrails, account provisioning and access through IAM Identity Center.
• Support every area of AWS the squads use, from Lambda, Fargate and API Gateway to DynamoDB, S3 and CloudFront.
• Write and maintain infrastructure as code using AWS CDK (TypeScript and Python) and CloudFormation; ensure reusable golden paths.
• Build and support deployment pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) with built-in security checks.
• Maintain and extend internal deployment tooling (TypeScript/React) for fast, secure deployments.
• Create clear context for AI tools and people: platform standards, runbooks and prompts.

Skills

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Cloud security

Observability

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

X-Ray

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Moorepay is building an AI-first HR and payroll platform on AWS. We seek a Platform Engineer to own infrastructure as code, deployment tooling and observability in a fast-paced Cloud Engineering team.

You'll work with TypeScript and Python, maintain golden paths, govern IAM and security, and help teams deploy safely. This role demands hands-on AWS expertise and the ability to move quickly while upholding standards.