Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (observability)

Levy Global; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Levy Global is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own the observability capabilities across a large AWS platform. The role focuses on telemetry pipelines, platform visibility, and enabling teams to operate highly reliable Kubernetes-based services.

The position is hybrid with three days onsite in London, offering hands-on work in production environments and collaboration with platform engineers to drive reliability and automation.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS experience, cloud-native infra.
• Hands-on Kubernetes/EKS administration in production.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Observability tooling including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience building monitoring, logging and distributed tracing solutions.
• Strong Linux and networking knowledge.
• CI/CD, automation and scripting (Python or Bash).
• Experience working in high-availability, mission-critical production environments.

Responsibilities

• Building and enhancing cloud observability platforms.
• Instrumenting applications and infrastructure with metrics, logs and traces
• Creating dashboards, alerts and SLO-driven monitoring
• Improving platform reliability, automation and operational excellence
• Working closely with platform and software engineering teams to support production systems

Skills

AWS experience

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Linux

Networking

High availability

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Contract Inside IR35

Hybrid (3 days onsite in London)

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to take ownership of building and evolving observability capabilities across a large-scale AWS platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing telemetry pipelines, improving platform visibility, and enabling engineering teams to operate highly reliable Kubernetes-based services.

What we're looking for:

• Strong AWS experience, particularly with cloud-native infrastructure
• Hands-on Kubernetes/EKS administration in production environments
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Observability tooling including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience building monitoring, logging and distributed tracing solutions
• Strong Linux and networking knowledge
• CI/CD, automation and scripting (Python or Bash)
• Experience working in high-availability, mission-critical production environments

You’ll be responsible for:

• Building and enhancing cloud observability platforms
• Instrumenting applications and infrastructure with metrics, logs and tracesCreating dashboards, alerts and SLO-driven monitoring
• Improving platform reliability, automation and operational excellence
• Working closely with platform and software engineering teams to support production systems