Senior Experience Platform Engineer - AWS & DevEx Leader

Motorway; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

BUPA health insurance

Discounted gym membership via BUPA

Hybrid working

Pension scheme

Car leasing - EV discount

Enhanced parental leave

Workplace nursery

Regular social events

Cycle to work

Job summary

Motorway is expanding its Product & Engineering organisation and seeks a senior DevOps Engineer to build and evolve our developer experience. You will own AWS environments and a new container platform on AWS Fargate, focusing on reliability, observability, and tooling for engineering teams.

You will help reduce toil through automation, define monitoring standards, and enable teams with self-service capabilities.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale.
• Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms, with a strong intuition for actionable signals.
• Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems that support safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments.
• Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call environment and improving systems.
• Comfortable with command-line tools and environments.
• Proficient with at least one programming language used for automation or tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure focusing on reliability, scalability and ease of use.
• Design and build self-service tooling for engineers to deploy and operate services correctly.
• Continuously reduce toil by automating workflows and standardising infrastructure using IaC.
• Define and implement platform-level monitoring and alerting standards with meaningful signals.
• Enable product teams to use shared metrics and signals to improve reliability across environments.
• Own and evolve our CD and release capabilities, reducing time to production with high reliability.
• Stay current with best practices in hosting, CD, and developer experience and apply them pragmatically.
• Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team.

Skills

AWS

Monitoring & alerting

Continuous delivery

Platform security

On-call experience

Automation scripting

Tools

Command-line tools

Job description

Motorway is expanding its Product & Engineering organisation and seeks a senior DevOps Engineer to build and evolve our developer experience. You will own AWS environments and a new container platform on AWS Fargate, focusing on reliability, observability, and tooling for engineering teams.

You will help reduce toil through automation, define monitoring standards, and enable teams with self-service capabilities.