Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & Observability

Xplor; England; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

#GiveBackDays

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Mental health support

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Xplor is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to build and run scalable AWS and Kubernetes platforms across a global estate. You will design reusable patterns, implement IaC with Terraform and Argo CD, and empower product teams with self-service platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, observability and cost-conscious engineering, with a strong focus on collaboration across a global organization and a modern cloud-first approach.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building and running production platforms or distributed systems on AWS.
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, ideally Amazon EKS, covering cluster lifecycle, scheduling, networking, storage, security and workload operations.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, especially designing maintainable Terraform projects, modules and shared patterns at scale.
• Experience with GitOps and continuous delivery, ideally with Argo CD and Helm.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run shared AWS and Kubernetes capabilities that support Exerp workloads globally
• Create reusable, opinionated platform patterns for account foundations, networking, identity, compute, storage and observability
• Use Terraform, Helm, Argo CD and related automation to make infrastructure and application delivery repeatable, reviewable and recoverable
• Improve our internal developer platform and service catalogue (including Port) so teams can find, provision and run what they need through clear self-service paths
• Assess new technologies pragmatically, weighing customer value, operational risk, security, cost and long-term maintainability

Skills

AWS expertise

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

Helm

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

AWS

Job description

Xplor is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to build and run scalable AWS and Kubernetes platforms across a global estate. You will design reusable patterns, implement IaC with Terraform and Argo CD, and empower product teams with self-service platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, observability and cost-conscious engineering, with a strong focus on collaboration across a global organization and a modern cloud-first approach.