Platform Engineer: AWS DevSecOps & Terraform

Immersum; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Immersum is expanding its Platform team in Leeds with two DevSecOps/Platform Engineers. You will help build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure, embed security practices, and support ongoing migration of critical systems into AWS.

You’ll join a tight-knit team delivering security tooling, IaC, and automation, with ownership and influence over technical direction in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with AWS infrastructure.
• Experience working with Terraform.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, ideally Amazon EKS.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps or cloud security principles.
• Experience automating infrastructure with Ansible.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and a proactive approach to problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure while embedding security best practices across the organisation.
• Deliver initiatives from a significant security roadmap and support day-to-day platform operations.
• Migrate on-premise infrastructure into AWS and maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS and automate tasks with Ansible.
• Collaborate with external security consultants to triage and respond to platform and security alerts.
• Roll out new security technologies (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Panther, SentinelOne, Tailscale).
• Contribute to platform reliability, monitoring and operational improvements, supporting event-driven architecture.

Skills

Ownership

Communication

Collaborative

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes / EKS

GitLab CI/CD

GuardDuty

CloudTrail

Tailscale

Job description

Immersum is expanding its Platform team in Leeds with two DevSecOps/Platform Engineers. You will help build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure, embed security practices, and support ongoing migration of critical systems into AWS.

You’ll join a tight-knit team delivering security tooling, IaC, and automation, with ownership and influence over technical direction in a fast-moving environment.