Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps

Xplor

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

Extra volunteer days

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Free mental health support

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Xplor is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help build and operate a scalable, secure, and observable cloud platform across AWS and Kubernetes. You will partner with product teams to enable self‑service provisioning, reduce toil, and improve platform maturity.

You will lead design decisions, implement IaC with Terraform, manage GitOps workflows with Argo CD and Helm, and drive reliable, secure delivery across a global estate. Strong communication in English is essential.

Qualifications

Significant experience designing, building and running production platforms on AWS.
Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, ideally Amazon EKS.
Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform.
Experience with GitOps and continuous delivery (Argo CD and Helm).

Responsibilities

Design, build and run shared AWS and Kubernetes capabilities for Exerp workloads globally.
Create reusable platform patterns for account foundations, networking, identity, compute and observability.
Use Terraform, Helm, Argo CD and related automation for repeatable delivery.
Improve internal developer platform and service catalogue for self-service provisioning.
Define and improve SLOs, resilience, disaster recovery and capacity planning.