Senior AWS Data Platform Engineer — Flexible Hours & FinOps

Microlise; Langley Mill; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great Place to Work certified

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday

EV car salary sacrifice scheme

Job summary

Microlise is seeking a Senior AWS Data Platform Engineer on a 12‑month fixed term contract to shape and operate our next‑generation data platform. You will join Microlise One Analytics & AI to build a secure, scalable data ecosystem that powers analytics, AI and business insights across the organisation.

You will blend platform engineering, cloud DevOps, and data governance to ensure a high‑performing, compliant and cost‑efficient platform.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering or DevOps within data‑driven environments.
• Hands‑on expertise in AWS, infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building secure, scalable cloud environments
• A solid understanding of data platforms, pipelines or analytics ecosystems
• A mindset focused on reliability, observability and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and operating our AWS-based data platform using infrastructure as code
• Creating and managing CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, controlled deployments
• Supporting modern Lakehouse architecture, ingestion, processing and data serving layers
• Embedding security, governance and compliance controls across the platform
• Driving platform observability, monitoring, and performance optimisation
• Owning aspects of cost management (FinOps) and platform efficiency
• Collaborating with Data Engineers, Analytics & AI teams to deliver trusted data products

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

Microlise is seeking a Senior AWS Data Platform Engineer on a 12‑month fixed term contract to shape and operate our next‑generation data platform. You will join Microlise One Analytics & AI to build a secure, scalable data ecosystem that powers analytics, AI and business insights across the organisation.

You will blend platform engineering, cloud DevOps, and data governance to ensure a high‑performing, compliant and cost‑efficient platform.