Senior Platform Engineering Lead

Jobtailor

Bath

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor in Bath is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and scale the GRiD cloud platform across multiple regions, ensuring resilience, disaster recovery, and secure operations. You will act as the primary escalation point for complex infra issues and guide transitions to new platform versions.

You will shape platform governance with AWS CDK/OpenTofu, collaborate with risk and engineering teams, and drive innovation through automation, self-service tooling, and AI-assisted

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years’ experience working on customer-facing cloud platforms.
Strong hands-on expertise with AWS across multiple accounts and regions, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
Proven experience with AWS CDK/CloudFormation and OpenTofu, including troubleshooting stack failures, rollbacks, and configuration drift
Experience building or operating serverless AWS architectures for production-scale data processing workloads
Experience designing and supporting multi-region, highly available platforms, including disaster recovery planning and testing
Strong understanding of AWS IAM, including roles, trust policies, and GitHub Actions OIDC federation
Professional development experience in Python
Excellent code review capabilities
Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement, developer experience, automation, AI-assisted engineering, and platform tooling
Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction
Prior people management experience is highly desirable
Experience with Okta or similar identity and access management platforms is desirable
Familiarity with Django and/or FastAPI is desirable
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Sentry Cloud or Dynatrace is desirable
Experience working with distributed engineering teams across multiple geographies is desirable

Responsibilities

Own the GRiD cloud platform end-to-end, including resilience, disaster recovery, multi-region architecture, and operational readiness
Act as the senior escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges, including permissions, deployment failures, and platform stability issues
Guide the transition from GRiD to GRiD 2 in collaboration with Catastrophe and Risk Solutions teams developing Synergy Studio (VSS)
Shape platform strategy and governance across AWS CDK and OpenTofu environments
Partner with the Information Risk Officer to identify, prioritise, and remediate platform vulnerabilities
Participate in code reviews, technical problem solving, and hands-on development
Drive innovation through prototyping, self-service infrastructure, developer tooling improvements, and AI-assisted development initiatives
Support agile delivery activities and contribute to a shared business-hours support rota
Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed infrastructure engineering team through coaching, performance management, and career development
Provide technical direction across two business units and work with engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions

Skills

AWS Expertise

AWS CDK/CloudFormation

Serverless Architecture

Python Development

GitHub Actions OIDC Federation

Django

FastAPI

Observability/Monitoring

Leadership/People Management

Tools

Sentry Cloud

Dynatrace

Okta

Job description

Own the GRiD cloud platform end-to-end, including resilience, disaster recovery, multi-region architecture, and operational readiness
Act as the senior escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges, including permissions, deployment failures, and platform stability issues
Guide the transition from GRiD to GRiD 2 in collaboration with Catastrophe and Risk Solutions teams developing Synergy Studio (VSS)
Shape platform strategy and governance across AWS CDK and OpenTofu environments
Partner with the Information Risk Officer to identify, prioritise, and remediate platform vulnerabilities
Participate in code reviews, technical problem solving, and hands-on development
Drive innovation through prototyping, self-service infrastructure, developer tooling improvements, and AI-assisted development initiatives
Support agile delivery activities and contribute to a shared business-hours support rota
Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed infrastructure engineering team through coaching, performance management, and career development
Provide technical direction across two business units and work with engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions

Requirements

Minimum 5 years’ experience working on customer-facing cloud platforms
Strong hands-on expertise with AWS across multiple accounts and regions, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
Proven experience with AWS CDK/CloudFormation and OpenTofu, including troubleshooting stack failures, rollbacks, and configuration drift
Experience building or operating serverless AWS architectures for production-scale data processing workloads
Experience designing and supporting multi-region, highly available platforms, including disaster recovery planning and testing
Strong understanding of AWS IAM, including roles, trust policies, and GitHub Actions OIDC federation
Professional development experience in Python
Excellent code review capabilities
Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement, developer experience, automation, AI-assisted engineering, and platform tooling
Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction
Prior people management experience is highly desirable
Experience with Okta or similar identity and access management platforms is desirable
Familiarity with Django and/or FastAPI is desirable
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Sentry Cloud or Dynatrace is desirable
Experience working with distributed engineering teams across multiple geographies is desirable

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in managing cloud platforms, particularly with AWS, including expertise in AWS CDK, OpenTofu, and serverless architectures. Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams while driving innovation and ensuring platform resilience and security.

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