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AWS Senior Platform Engineer - Security Clearance eligibility required.
Appvia
London
Hybrid
GBP 75,000 - 90,000
Full time
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Job summary
Appvia is seeking a mid-senior level AWS Senior Platform Engineer to drive cloud and DevOps solutions in London. This role involves architecting innovative strategies, collaborating with clients, and implementing secure, scalable cloud-native solutions with a strong emphasis on automation and industry best practices. Along with a competitive salary package, benefits include flexible work arrangements and personal development budgets.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment practices.
- Knowledge of industry best practices.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms and container orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with clients to develop tailored cloud strategies.
- Design and implement scalable cloud-native solutions.
- Improve security posture of applications.
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AWS Senior Platform Engineer - Appvia - Security Clearance eligibility required.
Location: London, UK
Package: £75,000 - 90,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits (see more below)
About Us
At Appvia, we're committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support our clients' cloud adoption journey.
Our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monitor and update with ease - at the same time, offering devs the flexibility to deploy their apps in the cloud without a hassle. We are passionate about driving value to our clients and have a desire to make their organisation succeed.
About The Role
As a Senior AWS Platform Engineer and Cloud Consultant, you will play a crucial role in guiding our customers on their journey to cloud and DevOps maturity. Leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies and best practices, you will work closely with clients to architect, implement, and optimise solutions tailored to their unique needs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and deliver exceptional value to our customers.
Interview process - 4 stage
- Discovery conversation with our Talent Acquisition team.
- A paired Technical Assessment with Engineering team.
- Technical Interview deep dive with Practice Leadership.
- Competency focused Final Interview with Engineering Leadership
You must either hold active SC, or be eligible for SC:
- British Passport or ILR
- To have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years
- Have no criminal records
- Have no financial irregularities
About you
You'll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in being part of an Engineering Team and Agile and DevOps best practices. You'll also be able to talk to us about your:
- Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices
- Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability
- Understanding of industry best practices
- Project Management experience
- Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal
- Collaborate with clients to assess their current infrastructure, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop tailored cloud and DevOps strategies
- Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native solutions leveraging industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies
- Developing pipelines to deploy code all the way to production with Terraform, using GitHub Actions
- Managing new demand for platform and application onboarding
- Assisting application development teams to architect their applications to be cloud native, or helping them transform existing applications to cloud native where possible
- Implementing monitoring and alerting
- Improving security posture of applications being migrated
- Creating secure deployment patterns and templates/modules for application development teams to reuse
- Gathering requirements for building and maintaining a centralised platform for product teams to iterate on their applications in AWS
- Setting best practices and policies, especially around microservice architecture
- Developing, maintaining and operating complex operational tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Opensearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Github or equivalent alternative technologies)
- Assessing customer technical capabilities and upskilling for reduced friction and increased platform adoption
- Enhancing operational reliability and scalability of existing products
- POC'ing new ideas and products, and balancing trade offs between technical, analytical and product needs
- Streamlining operational tasks through engineering and automation
- Improving operational visibility around core products such as tracking technologies, improved metrics etc
- Implementing integrations between components to improve the teams way of working
- Improving knowledge amongst the team through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance and mentoring
- Reducing the number of DevOps resources in projects by enabling developers to be more self-service
- Platform Engineering: Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms
- Automation: Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby)
- Container Orchestration: Knowledge of container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and their managed counterparts (e.g., EKS, AKS, GKE)
- Public Cloud Expertise: Understanding of cloud services, architecture, and best practices in one or more major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- DevOps Practices: Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker)
- Project Leadership: Demonstrated experience delivering cloud migration, optimisation, or transformation projects
- Client-Facing Experience: Proven track record of engaging with clients, understanding their requirements, and delivering solutions that exceed expectations
- Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and drive consensus
- Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying abreast of industry trends, participating in professional development activities, and obtaining relevant certifications
Certification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an associate level is highly desirable, e.g.:
- AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate
- AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Professional
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS)
Why join Appvia?
We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.
We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.
With us our customers, like the UK's Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.
What's on offer?
️ Work-life balance
- Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work
- Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month
- 25 days' holiday a year, plus bank holidays
- An additional day off for your birthday
- Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay
- Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents
- Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%
- Death in Service
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free hygiene products available in the London office
- Free therapy through AXA
- Access to the Headspace App
- Trained Mental Health First Aiders
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year
- Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia
- Dog friendly office
- Wear what makes you comfortable
- Free snacks in the office
- Pool table & ping pong table
- Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more!
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.
Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.
- Seniority levelMid-Senior level
- Employment typeFull-time
- IndustriesIT Services and IT Consulting
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