Platform Engineer: Cloud, IaC & DevEx

UNiDAYS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private health insurance

Dental insurance

Income protection

Life assurance

Employee assistance

Parental leave pay

Team building activities

Hybrid work model

Home office stipend

Job summary

UNiDAYS is seeking a Platform Engineer to elevate platform strategy, cloud automation and developer experience. You’ll work with software teams to deliver resilient, cost‑effective solutions while removing barriers and championing operational excellence.

Join a hybrid team in the UK, shaping platform reliability, performance and security for a global student verification network with a strong growth trajectory.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS experience across services with platform engineering focus.
• Experience with ECS/EKS clusters across environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Security, networking, CDN, load balancing and storage familiarity.
• Proficiency in core languages including C#, Python and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and implement cloud services via IaC.
• Collaborate with software engineers to support cloud needs and upskill teams.
• Identify new technologies and drive improvements across the platform and tooling.
• Create self‑serving capabilities for software teams.
• Monitor platform performance with an SRE mindset for SLIs/SLOs.
• Document best practices and continuously improve processes.
• Participate in on‑call one week per month with a runbook.

Skills

AWS Cloud

ECS/EKS

Security & Networking

CI/CD

C# / Python / TypeScript

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

UNiDAYS is seeking a Platform Engineer to elevate platform strategy, cloud automation and developer experience. You’ll work with software teams to deliver resilient, cost‑effective solutions while removing barriers and championing operational excellence.

Join a hybrid team in the UK, shaping platform reliability, performance and security for a global student verification network with a strong growth trajectory.