Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Remote & Platform Reliability

Xplor Education; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

GivBack Days

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Mental health support

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Xplor is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help design, build and run a resilient, secure cloud foundation across global workloads. You will work with AWS and Kubernetes, shaping a reusable platform with Terraform, Helm and Argo CD, while enabling product teams with self-service capabilities.

You will define SLOs, observability practices and incident response, automating toil and enabling scalable operations across a multi-account environment.

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 by designing, building and running shared AWS and Kubernetes capabilities that support Exerp workloads globally.
• Create reusable, opinionated platform patterns for account foundations, networking, identity, compute, storage, deployment and observability.
• Use Terraform, Helm, Argo CD and related automation to make infrastructure and application delivery repeatable, reviewable and recoverable.
• Improve internal developer platform and service catalogue for clear self-service paths.
• Define and improve SLOs, operational readiness, resilience, disaster recovery and capacity planning.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

Helm

Observability

Security

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

Grafana Cloud

Elastic Cloud

Job description

Xplor is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help design, build and run a resilient, secure cloud foundation across global workloads. You will work with AWS and Kubernetes, shaping a reusable platform with Terraform, Helm and Argo CD, while enabling product teams with self-service capabilities.

You will define SLOs, observability practices and incident response, automating toil and enabling scalable operations across a multi-account environment.