Senior Platform Engineer: Scale Platform & Cloud Systems

Opus Recruitment Solutions; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Platform and Infrastructure Engineering team in London. This role focuses on enhancing internal tooling, improving developer experience, and ensuring engineers have the right resources. Candidates should have a strong software development background, experience with AWS and microservices, and be able to collaborate effectively across teams. This is an on-site position offering a new challenge in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of AWS services (EKS, RDS, S3).
• Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Enhance internal tooling for the platform.
• Improve local developer experience.
• Ensure engineers have necessary resources.

Skills

Software development

Communication

Microservices

Cross-team collaboration

AWS (EKS, RDS, S3)

Networking knowledge

Linux administration

Monitoring tools (Datadog, Grafana)

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

ELK

Sentry

OpsGenie

Job description

A leading recruitment firm is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Platform and Infrastructure Engineering team in London. This role focuses on enhancing internal tooling, improving developer experience, and ensuring engineers have the right resources. Candidates should have a strong software development background, experience with AWS and microservices, and be able to collaborate effectively across teams. This is an on-site position offering a new challenge in a dynamic environment.