AWS Cloud Platform Engineer – Permanent UK

Satalia (NPComplete); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave

Remote working

Flexible working hours

Annual bonus

Impactful projects

People oriented culture

Transparent culture

Development opportunities

Job summary

Satalia, a WPP company, is seeking an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to design, deploy and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. The role combines hands-on engineering with strong emphasis on security, observability and DevOps practices.

The successful candidate will work within an experienced cross-disciplinary team, contribute to the delivery of Logistics and Delivery products, and enjoy truly flexible working arrangements in London or remote locations in the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying infrastructure in AWS and cloud environments using IaC.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, observability stacks and cloud-native design.
• Strong scripting and automation skills with Python/PowerShell/Bash.

Responsibilities

• Work with solution architects to identify technologies and processes for clients.
• Act as a technical authority to engage and steer discussions on best practice and risk mitigation.
• Ensure security considerations are implemented, tested and maintained.
• Build in Observability.

Skills

Cloud architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

DevOps mindset

Security best practices

Communication

SRE practices

Cloud-native design

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CircleCI

GitLab CI

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Role type: Permanent

Location: London/remote
Preferred start date: ASAP

LIFE AT SATALIA

As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the most complex problems in the industry. Satalia, a WPP company is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with a tight-knit team of high performing colleagues.

Led by our founder and WPP Chief AI Officer Daniel Hulme, Satalia’s ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future. Today, this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust. At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity. We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment. We offer truly flexible working and allow our employees to find the working practice that makes them most productive. At Satalia, your opinion matters and your achievements are celebrated.

THE ROLE

The Cloud Platform Engineers deliver infrastructure solutions as part of an experienced cross-disciplinary team. We have a developer mindset and deliver our infrastructure through code, holding ourselves to the same quality and code standards as the rest of the team.

We need you to use your hands‑on experience to drive the design, development and deployment of Satalia’s Logistics and Delivery products.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with our solution architects to identify the best technologies and process for our clients
• Act as a technical authority to engage and steer discussions on best practice and risk mitigation
• Ensure security considerations are implemented, tested and maintained.
• Build in Observability

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• building infrastructure and deploying code in one of the main Clouds (preferably AWS Bitbucket Pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, K6)
• Implementing and maintaining monitoring, logging and tracing tools (Grafana or similar)
• Communicating and explaining technical concepts at appropriate levels for your team and to clients
• Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of:
• Infrastructure and Configuration as Code
• Safe Deployment strategies and CI/CD
• Cloud-based and Cloud-native system design
• Observability
• Developer Experience
• DevOps and SRE
• InfoSec and SIEM

If you know this, even better:

• Practical experience with AWS BitBucket Pipelines, GitHUb Actions Workflows or Azure Devops Pipelines, Repos and Artifacts
• Experience with Kubernetes, and familiarity with differing Cloud implementations
• Experience deploying and operating observability stacks in production environments, including integration with Kubernetes workloads and cloud-native services.
• Hands‑on with Terraform – familiarity with Terragrunt, Terratest
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments
• Management of Automation Tooling – Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI
• Experience with automated testing tools - Selenium, JMeter, Lighthouse
• Strong scripting skills - Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl

WE OFFER

• Generous Leave - 27 days oliday plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave;Benefits - enhanced pension, life assurance, income protection, private healthcare;
• Remote working - café, bedroom, beach - wherever works;
• Truly flexible working hours - school pick up, volunteering, gym;
• Annual bonus - when Satalia does well, we all do well;
• Impactful projects - focus on bringing meaningful social and environmental change;
• People oriented culture - wellbeing is a priority, as is being a nice person;
• Transparent and open culture - you will be heard;
• Development - focus on bringing the best out of each other;

Satalia is home to some of the brightest minds in AI and if you’re looking to join a company who not only values autonomy and freedom, but embraces a culture of inclusion and warmth, we’d love to hear from you.

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Good luck!