Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: AWS/Kubernetes & Observability

Xplor Technologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

GiveBackDays

Diversity & Inclusion

Mental health support

Flexible work

Job summary

Xplor Technologies is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and run a scalable cloud platform on AWS with Kubernetes. You will focus on reliability, security and observability to empower product teams across a global estate.

You will implement IaC patterns with Terraform and GitOps with Argo CD and Helm, improve the developer experience, and participate in incident response, upgrades and cost-aware governance.

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

• Build and evolve the platform: design, build and run shared AWS and Kubernetes capabilities that support Exerp workloads globally.
• Improve reliability and operational maturity: define and improve SLOs, readiness, resilience, disaster recovery and capacity planning for platform services.
• Enable product and engineering teams: work with developers to deliver practical platform solutions with clear self-service paths.
• Protect the business and its customers: apply security best practices, governance and cost-management across a multi-account AWS estate.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

GitOps (Argo CD, Helm)

Observability (Grafana, logs, metrics)

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

Job description

Xplor Technologies is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and run a scalable cloud platform on AWS with Kubernetes. You will focus on reliability, security and observability to empower product teams across a global estate.

You will implement IaC patterns with Terraform and GitOps with Argo CD and Helm, improve the developer experience, and participate in incident response, upgrades and cost-aware governance.