Platform Engineer - Cloud Resilience & AWS (Serverless)

Seccl; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £55k-£75k per year

27 days holiday + holidays

Two volunteering days per year

Work abroad up to six weeks

MacBook and £500 home office budget

Learning budget £750 per person

Private medical insurance

6% employer pension contribution

Parental leave enhancements

Wellness and mental health support

Job summary

Seccl is seeking a Platform engineer to shape and evolve the cloud platform underpinning our investment products. You’ll treat infrastructure as a product, enabling squads to self-serve and run their own services.

The role sits in the Cloud Resilience team, with a focus on AWS, Lambda, Terraform, and a serverless approach, while collaborating with Node.js/TypeScript developers and upholding reliability and security.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Strong observability mindset with actionable alerts.
• Collaborates effectively with Node.js/TypeScript teams.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure infrastructure in AWS using Terraform.
• Designing cloud-native solutions using MongoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, and other AWS services with a strong focus on serverless.
• Contributing to incident response efforts, production readiness, and reliability initiatives across engineering squads.
• Enhancing observability and platform insight through actionable alerting and data visibility using Datadog.
• Continuously improving CI/CD processes with GitHub Actions, reducing friction in delivery pipelines.
• Collaborating with software engineers (working in Node.js/TypeScript) to ensure secure, performant, and resilient applications.
• Mentoring engineers and champion DevOps culture and best practices across teams.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Observability

Collaboration

Tools

AWS

Terraform

MongoDB Atlas

Datadog

TypeScript/NodeJS

GitHub Actions

Serverless

API Gateway

Job description

Seccl is seeking a Platform engineer to shape and evolve the cloud platform underpinning our investment products. You’ll treat infrastructure as a product, enabling squads to self-serve and run their own services.

The role sits in the Cloud Resilience team, with a focus on AWS, Lambda, Terraform, and a serverless approach, while collaborating with Node.js/TypeScript developers and upholding reliability and security.