AWS Platform Engineer

Microlise; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Vitality Health Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking

Costco membership

Discounts with Reward Gateway

Staff awards & events

Job summary

Microlise is seeking an AWS Platform Engineer on a 12-month fixed-term contract to build a scalable cloud platform powering analytics, AI, and digital services. You will create production-ready foundations using Terraform, implement security controls, and develop reusable platform capabilities for engineering teams.

Join a Midlands-based technology business that values ownership, collaboration and delivering robust, observable cloud services with strong FinOps practices and security-by-design

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure experience.
• Infrastructure as Code with reusable modules.
• AWS networking (VPCs, DNS) and hybrid connectivity.
• IAM, encryption, secrets management and least privilege.
• Cloud monitoring, logging and observability.
• Multi-account environments and governance.
• Scripting in Python or Bash for automation.
• Security-by-design mindset and DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

• Build the foundations for our AWS future with Terraform.
• Establish reusable infra modules and deployment patterns.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure.
• Implement security controls, IAM and networking.
• Establish observability with metrics, logs and alerts.
• Support FinOps tagging, budgets and cost visibility.
• Collaborate with architecture, data engineering and dev teams.
• Create scalable, production-ready AWS platform.

Skills

AWS engineering

Automation/IaC

Terraform

AWS networking

IAM security

Monitoring/Observability

Scripting

Multi-account governance

Collaboration

Job description

Join Microlise as an AWS Platform Engineer on a 12-month fixed term contract and help build the cloud platform that will power the next generation of analytics, AI and digital services.

This is a rare opportunity to shape a strategic AWS platform from the ground up, establishing the engineering foundations, automation, security controls and operational standards that future teams will build upon.

Working within our Platform Engineering team, you'll design and implement reusable AWS capabilities that enable engineers across Microlise to deploy securely, operate confidently and innovate at scale.

If you're passionate about platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, cloud automation and creating exceptional developer experiences, we'd love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

Build the foundations for our AWS future

Microlise is making a significant investment in its next-generation cloud platform, creating the foundations for advanced analytics, AI-driven products, data services and future digital innovation. This platform will become a strategic capability used across the wider Microlise organisation, influencing how future AWS workloads are built, operated and secured

The platform you build won’t just support one application or project. You’ll help create reusable capabilities, standards and deployment patterns that can be adopted across future AWS workloads.

Start by building the platform teams will use

Your first focus will be helping establish the production-ready AWS foundations needed by our Analytics and AI programme, while creating reusable platform capabilities for future workloads.

• Build and automate AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Establish reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns and engineering guardrails
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services
• Implement AWS security controls, IAM patterns, secrets management and secure networking
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting and operational observability across the platform
• I mplement tagging, cost visibility, budgets and FinOps controls to help teams understand and manage cloud consumption
• Work closely with architecture, security, data engineering and development teams to create a platform that is secure, reliable and straightforward to consume

Build, shape and scale a modern AWS platform

You’ll be part of the team turning our AWS strategy and architecture into a working, production-ready engineering platform.

• Design, build and operate secure, resilient AWS infrastructure and shared platform services
• Develop reusable modules and automation that allow teams to provision infrastructure consistently
• Build deployment pipelines and automated controls that make infrastructure changes safe, repeatable and auditable
• Implement cloud networking patterns including VPCs, routing, DNS, security groups and connectivity between AWS and existing environments
• Embed security by design, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability management and policy enforcement
• Build platform observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and automated alerting
• Establish backup, recovery, resilience and operational readiness patterns
• Implement cloud cost management through tagging standards, budgets, monitoring, optimisation and FinOps practices
• Support multi-account and multi-environment AWS architectures with appropriate governance and controls
• Create platform documentation, engineering standards and reusable patterns that make it easier for development teams to adopt AWS
• Collaborate closely with Architecture, Security, Data Engineering, AI Engineering and application teams to continually improve the developer experience

Create a platform that accelerates engineering

• This role isn't just about keeping infrastructure running.
• We want to create a platform that allows engineering teams to move faster without compromising security, reliability or cost control.
• You'll help establish the paved roads that enable teams to deploy workloads without needing to reinvent infrastructure, networking, monitoring or security for every project.

What are we looking for?

Bring the skills to build cloud platforms

We’re looking for someone who combines strong AWS engineering experience with automation, ownership and a practical understanding of running cloud platforms in production.

• Strong hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure on AWS
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, including reusable modules and automated deployment
• Good understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, security groups and hybrid connectivity
• Strong understanding of AWS IAM, security controls, encryption, secrets management and least-privilege access
• Experience implementing cloud monitoring, logging, alerting and observability
• Experience working with multi-account AWS environments, governance and environment separation
• Comfortable scripting and automating using Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar
• Good understanding of cloud resilience, backup, disaster recovery and operational support
• A collaborative, ownership-led mindset and the confidence to work with engineers, architects, security teams and other technical stakeholders

Experience with AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Config, Systems Manager, IAM Identity Center, Security Hub, GuardDuty or similar AWS platform services would be highly valuable.

Familiarity with FinOps, AWS cost management, tagging strategies, policy-as-code, developer platforms, platform engineering or Site Reliability Engineering practices would also help you succeed.

Help define how AWS engineering works at Microlise

You’ll have the opportunity to help shape our engineering standards, automation, tooling and ways of working as the AWS platform develops.

We’re looking for engineers who enjoy that environment: people who can take an architectural direction, turn it into working engineering capability and leave behind something that is automated, documented and easier for the next team to use.

Don't worry if you don't tick every box – we're keen to hear from candidates who are eager to learn and develop!

Why Microlise?

When your groceries arrive at your door or you sign for your online parcel, one or more of our software, telematics or proof-of-purchase solutions has probably been used. Supporting 14 of the UK’s 15 largest retailers, we count household names such as JCB, Eddie Stobart, Carlsberg, Waitrose and Royal Mail as customers.

Proudly Midlands-based, Microlise has been privately-owned for thirty years. Our growing business is guided by our culture which drives the way we behave, the way we work, the way we connect with our customers, and the way we support and develop our people.

• We believe in our culture, values and staff successes, take a look around our new careers page to see why our employees love Microlise
• We believe in developing our staff and support our employees with their professional development goals
• 25 days holiday excluding bank holidays, increasing by 1 a year to 30 days
• Recognition of service from your 1 st year and other anniversaries
• Free parking, tea, coffee and daily fruit
• Vitality Health Insurance, Employee Assistance Programme and subsidised eye tests and glasses
• Free Costco membership, 20% off EE mobile and line rental, and other discounts with Reward Gateway
• Great staff extras: Easter eggs, yearly BBQ, Christmas gifts and annual staff awards!

Recruitment Process

We're reviewing applications and interviewing throughout the advertising period via video conferencing, so don’t delay getting your application in!

As part of the Microlise interview process, you’ll need to attend an in-person interview at our Head Office in Eastwood, Nottingham, for at least one of the interview stages.