Senior Platform Engineer: Hybrid AWS Cloud & Automation

Devopsroles; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Career development and certification

Health and wellbeing programs

Job summary

Vix Technology in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and improve AWS-based platforms across production and non-production environments. You will design, implement and automate infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling, while collaborating with product, development and customer teams to ensure high availability.

You’ll work across Linux/Windows, CloudFormation or Terraform, and monitoring stack, mentoring engineers and driving platform modernization in a

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps.
• Strong experience administering AWS cloud environments.
• Experience managing Linux and Windows infrastructure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terraform).
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with automation using PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, routing, load balancing and firewalls.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production environments.
• Understanding of monitoring, logging and observability tools.
• Knowledge of security best practices and DevSecOps principles.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain secure, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Operate and support production and non-production environments across multiple products.
• Deliver infrastructure improvements, platform upgrades and cloud migration initiatives.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Automate operational processes using scripting and configuration management tools.
• Monitor platform health, performance and security, proactively identifying improvements.
• Investigate and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Work closely with software engineering, product management and customer support teams.
• Contribute to platform architecture and technical design decisions.
• Participate in operational support and incident management activities.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Linux & Windows

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Networking fundamentals

Monitoring & observability

DevSecOps

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Splunk

CloudWatch

IAM

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Vix Technology in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and improve AWS-based platforms across production and non-production environments. You will design, implement and automate infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling, while collaborating with product, development and customer teams to ensure high availability.

You’ll work across Linux/Windows, CloudFormation or Terraform, and monitoring stack, mentoring engineers and driving platform modernization in a