Senior Platform Engineering Lead: Cloud, AWS & Multi-Region

Verisk; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Verisk in Bath, UK, is hiring a hands-on technical leader to run a distributed infrastructure team across the UK and India. The role combines people management, cloud architecture, platform engineering, and strategic decision-making, with a path to scale our AWS-based platforms.

You will shape the GRiD and DataX platforms, guide the GRiD-to-GRiD 2 migration, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, resilient cloud solutions in a hybrid, mostly remote environment.

Qualifications

• > 5 years' experience on customer-facing cloud platforms.
• > Strong hands-on AWS across multiple accounts and regions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• > Experience with AWS CDK/CloudFormation and OpenTofu, including troubleshooting stack failures and drift.
• > Experience building/operating serverless AWS architectures for production workloads.
• > Designing multi-region, highly available platforms with DR planning/testing.
• > AWS IAM knowledge including roles, trust policies, and GitHub Actions OIDC federation.
• > Python development experience.
• > Excellent code-review abilities with pragmatic feedback.
• > Passion for continuous improvement: DX, automation, AI-assisted engineering, tooling.
• > Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction.
• > People management experience 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, collaborating with teams to ensure a successful migration.
• Shape platform strategy and governance, providing guidance on architecture, tooling, and engineering best practices across AWS CDK and OpenTofu.
• Partner with the Information Risk Officer to identify, prioritise, and remediate platform vulnerabilities.
• Remain actively involved in engineering work through code reviews, technical problem solving, and hands-on development when required.
• 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 team of infrastructure engineers.

Skills

AWS cloud platform

Python development

Leadership and people management

AWS CDK/CloudFormation

OpenTofu

Serverless architectures

Multi-region architecture

Tools

GitHub Actions

Synergy Studio (VSS)

AWS ECS Fargate

DynamoDB

Aurora

Step Functions

Job description

Verisk in Bath, UK, is hiring a hands-on technical leader to run a distributed infrastructure team across the UK and India. The role combines people management, cloud architecture, platform engineering, and strategic decision-making, with a path to scale our AWS-based platforms.

You will shape the GRiD and DataX platforms, guide the GRiD-to-GRiD 2 migration, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, resilient cloud solutions in a hybrid, mostly remote environment.