Cloud Platform Engineer | AWS, CI/CD & Infra Automation

Point of Rental Software; Reading; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Point of Rental Software's UK engineering team is modernizing a long-established rental product, moving from on-prem to a cloud-native AWS environment. You'll work directly with developers, QA and DBAs, embedded in the team's day-to-day.

You'll own and troubleshoot AWS platform issues, improve CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments with Python/Bash/PowerShell, and contribute to IaC with Ansible or CloudFormation, collaborating with UK and US teams to keep deployments consistent.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Solid understanding of AWS cloud services in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins or similar.
• Proven ability to automate repetitive work using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Working knowledge of IaC tools (Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Comfortable operating in Linux environments and supporting a Windows-based team.
• Proven track record of managing deployments or infrastructure projects with minimal supervision.
• Strong troubleshooting instincts with a root-cause mindset.
• Clear communicator who collaborates with developers, not just tickets.
• Preferred: familiarity with .NET/C# environments, Docker, or legacy-to-cloud modernization.

Responsibilities

• Own and troubleshoot moderately complex problems within our AWS platform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and Jenkins to speed up releases.
• Support our multi-tenant AWS environment as we migrate off legacy on‑prem systems.
• Make independent operational decisions within established guidelines when addressing production issues.
• Automate deployment and release tasks using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code practices (Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Help drive release management improvements to reduce deployment time and effort.
• Support Cyber Essentials compliance work, including vulnerability remediation and audits.
• Serve as the go-to technical resource for the dev team on infra and pipelines.
• Collaborate with UK and US engineering teams to keep deployments consistent across regions.

Skills

AWS cloud services

CI/CD tooling

Python scripting

Bash scripting

PowerShell

Linux

Windows

Troubleshooting

Communication

Docker

Legacy-to-cloud

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Job description

Point of Rental Software's UK engineering team is modernizing a long-established rental product, moving from on-prem to a cloud-native AWS environment. You'll work directly with developers, QA and DBAs, embedded in the team's day-to-day.

You'll own and troubleshoot AWS platform issues, improve CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments with Python/Bash/PowerShell, and contribute to IaC with Ansible or CloudFormation, collaborating with UK and US teams to keep deployments consistent.