Senior Platform Engineer

Akixi; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing SaaS analytics company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance cloud infrastructure using AWS and Terraform. The ideal candidate will automate processes and ensure CI/CD pipeline excellence. Responsibilities include managing AWS services, implementing configuration management via Ansible, and optimizing deployments in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.
• Expertise in AWS core services: EC2, IAM, VPC, ECS/Fargate, and more.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage scalable infrastructure on AWS.
• Implement configuration management solutions using Ansible.
• Automate deployments for container-based workloads.

Skills

AWS core services expertise

Terraform (HCL) proficiency

Ansible experience

Strong scripting knowledge (Bash, Python, Go)

Container orchestration knowledge (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)

GitOps or IaC-based workflows

Job description

Location: Remote (Once a month meet-up)

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

About Akixi

Akixi is a fast‑growing SaaS analytics company delivering real‑time and historical insights for cloud‑based communication platforms, including Microsoft Teams, Cisco BroadWorks, and Webex Calling. Our analytics help businesses enhance customer experience, optimize productivity, and drive performance across voice and collaboration channels.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with a deep understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible. The ideal candidate will be a self‑starter, passionate about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and thrive in collaborative environments.

You will play a pivotal role in automating infrastructure, improving reliability and scalability, and ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments. You'll work closely with software engineering, and security teams to drive platform excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure on AWS using Terraform (modularized, reusable components).
• Implement configuration management solutions using Ansible, including playbook development, inventory structuring, and role‑based automation.
• Manage secrets securely using services such as AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements.
• Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, or Jenkins.
• Automate deployments for container‑based workloads on ECS (Fargate), or Lambda, and manage supporting infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize build/deploy cycles and reduce lead time for changes.
• Ensure security best practices are embedded into infrastructure provisioning and pipeline execution.
• Support compliance and auditing by implementing guardrails and controls as code (e.g., AWS Config, SCPs, IAM policy management).
• Some OOH work is required to maintain the production systems and also will be part of OOH critical ticket rota.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.
• Expertise in AWS core services: EC2, IAM, VPC, ECS/Fargate, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform (HCL) – including workspaces, modules, and Terraform Cloud or similar.
• Ansible experience – developing roles, dynamic inventories, managing remote configurations.
• Strong scripting knowledge (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Experience with container orchestration and deployment (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes).
• Proficient with GitOps or IaC‑based workflows.
• Familiarity with Google SRE practices, particularly around reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Understanding of systems reliability metrics and associated tooling

Soft Skills & Behaviours

• Self-driven with a bias toward action and ownership.
• Excellent communicator, able to collaborate across disciplines and levels of technical understanding.
• Experience working as part of a cross‑functional team.
• Comfortable working in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban).