Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS & Terraform, Observability

LEGO Digital Play; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

LEGO Digital Play is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud in London to build and operate a scalable AWS-based foundation for our engineering teams and studios. You will own landing zones, IaC, observability, and security controls.

You will collaborate with AI, security, and product groups to deliver a reliable, cost-aware platform that supports rapid, safe shipping of digital experiences for children and fans worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or STEM, or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience with multi-account production workloads.
• Extensive Terraform experience at scale with modules and CI/CD infra workflows.
• Experience building infra from greenfield projects; comfortable with ambiguity.
• Experience with reliability/observability systems: SLOs, metrics, tracing, logs (CloudWatch/Grafana/Prometheus/OpenSearch).
• Security- and privacy-minded; aware of GDPR and COPPA.
• Familiar with AI tooling in development/ops to accelerate delivery.
• Excellent communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud foundation (AWS-first, extend to Google Cloud) with landing zones.
• Embed security, privacy, and compliance controls by default (least-privilege IAM, encryption).
• Own infrastructure as code using Terraform with reusable modules.
• Create self-service tooling to speed delivery without reworking basics.
• Establish reliability and observability across platform with SLOs, metrics, logs.
• Collaborate with AI teams for AI/ML platform infra incl. GPU orchestration.
• Drive FinOps by instrumenting cost visibility and cost-aware culture.
• Shape architectural decisions in a greenfield environment as an early team member.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Security-by-design

GDPR Compliance

COPPA Compliance

SRE/Reliability

Communication

CloudWatch

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering / STEM

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Job description

LEGO Digital Play is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud in London to build and operate a scalable AWS-based foundation for our engineering teams and studios. You will own landing zones, IaC, observability, and security controls.

You will collaborate with AI, security, and product groups to deliver a reliable, cost-aware platform that supports rapid, safe shipping of digital experiences for children and fans worldwide.