Senior Automation Engineer – AWS & Observability

Addition; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Pension contributions

Private medical cover

Life assurance

26 days holiday

Wellbeing allowance

Enhanced parental leave

Wellbeing support

Discounted health assessments

Career growth

Flexible culture

Job summary

Addition in Hertfordshire is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to drive automation, cloud infra, and observability for a platform powering millions of players and funding good causes.

You'll design and deploy scalable AWS infrastructure (Terraform, Ansible, Docker, ECS/Fargate), develop CI/CD (GitHub Actions), build monitoring dashboards, and champion security and best practices across teams in a collaborative, growth-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud-native services.
• Solid background using Terraform, Ansible, Docker, ECS/Fargate, and serverless technologies.
• Advanced Python development skills, including scripting and Lambda functions.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring tooling such as Grafana, AppDynamics, Sensu, Logz.io, InfluxDB, or similar platforms.
• Strong Linux/*nix administration and low-level troubleshooting capability.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, REST APIs, HTTPS, encryption, and certificates.
• Exposure to modern development technologies such as NodeJS or Java.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Agile delivery environments.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, prioritise effectively, and continuously improve systems and processes.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and optimisation of automation and monitoring platforms across critical services and applications.
• Build and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, Docker, ECS/Fargate, and serverless tech.
• Develop CI/CD workflows and GitHub Actions pipelines to support deployments across environments.
• Create monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and observability tooling to improve operational visibility.
• Drive automation initiatives to simplify processes and reduce manual intervention across the estate.
• Support troubleshooting and capacity planning across complex infrastructure and gaming platforms.
• Work with technical leadership to break down delivery plans into engineering tasks.
• Collaborate with product, delivery, and business teams to shape priorities and refine backlogs.
• Promote engineering standards, security best practices, and platform consistency across teams.
• Support integration work using existing frameworks and scheduling tools while improving efficiency.

Skills

AWS infrastructure

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

ECS/Fargate

Serverless

Python

GitHub Actions

Grafana

AppDynamics

Sensu

Logz.io

InfluxDB

Linux administration

Networking fundamentals

NodeJS

Java

Jira

Confluence

Agile delivery

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

ECS/Fargate

GitHub Actions

Grafana

AppDynamics

Sensu

Logz.io

InfluxDB

Job description

Addition in Hertfordshire is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to drive automation, cloud infra, and observability for a platform powering millions of players and funding good causes.

You'll design and deploy scalable AWS infrastructure (Terraform, Ansible, Docker, ECS/Fargate), develop CI/CD (GitHub Actions), build monitoring dashboards, and champion security and best practices across teams in a collaborative, growth-focused environment.