Platform Engineer

Breakthrough Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Breakthrough Talent is seeking an experienced Infrastructure & Platform Engineer for a 3-month contract, fully remote with coordination with the London-based core team. You will shape and scale AWS-based infrastructure, work across Python/Django and Golang services, and drive observability, security, and platform reliability.

As a hands-on infra specialist, you will design, build, and automate cloud systems, contribute to platform strategy, and collaborate closely with backend engineers to ship

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and IAM.
• Hands-on IaC experience with Terraform or similar.
• Strong experience with Python/Django backend services.
• Experience with Golang or Go-based services in production.
• Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid observability practices and tooling.
• Excellent communication skills and collaboration with product engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure via IaC.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments.
• Support Python/Django and Golang services for performance and reliability.
• Own observability: monitoring, logging, alerting.
• Improve security, cost efficiency, and resilience.
• Troubleshoot platform incidents and outages.
• Contribute to platform architecture as product grows.

Skills

AWS

Python/Django

Golang

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to join a fast-moving engineering team on a contract basis. You'll help shape and scale the platform that underpins our product, working across our Python/Django backend and Golang services, with AWS as the backbone of our infrastructure.

This is a fully remote role - work from wherever suits you. The core team is based in London, so reasonable overlap with UK working hours is expected for collaboration.

About the role

You'll be joining as a hands-on infrastructure specialist, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud environment. You'll work closely with backend engineers building in Python (Django) and Golang, helping design and maintain the systems that let them ship quickly and safely. Expect a mix of hands-on build work, automation, and platform strategy.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, building, and maintaining AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code
• Improving and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to support fast, safe deployments
• Working closely with Python/Django and Golang engineering teams to support application performance, scalability, and reliability
• Owning observability — monitoring, logging, and alerting across the platform
• Driving improvements in system security, cost efficiency, and operational resilience
• Troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure and platform-level incidents
• Contributing to the evolution of our platform architecture as the product scales

What we're looking for

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS across compute, networking, storage, and IAM
• Solid experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
• Comfortable working alongside Python/Django backend services
• Experience with Golang, or strong familiarity with Go-based services in production
• Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS or similar)
• A solid understanding of observability tooling and practices
• Strong communication skills — comfortable working closely with product engineers, not just infrastructure teams
• Duration: 3-month initial contract, with a strong likelihood of extension to 6 months and beyond
• Location: Fully remote
• Start: Flexible, ASAP preferred