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MCS Group is working with a fast-scaling, tech forward start-up who is entering a major scale-up phase and is on the hunt for a talented Senior Cloud / Platform Engineer to join their high-impact team. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced Senior Cloud / Platform Engineer to be part of something big, early on - driving performance, resilience and automation across a modern, cloud-native stack. You'll play a crucial role in building, maintaining, and improving the platforms that underpin everything from product delivery to developer velocity.

If you are a Senior Cloud / Platform Engineer, and you are looking for a role where you can work with cutting-edge technology across DevOps and AI-native development tools, while having an opportunity to influence architectural decisions and take ownership of the platform as the company scales rapidly - then this one is for you!

You will be joining a culture that values autonomy, collaboration, and continuous learning!

The Role

• Designing and evolving secure, scalable infrastructure primarily on AWS
• Managing EKS (Kubernetes) clusters and Docker container environments
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and scripting in Groovy and Bash
• Supporting the development platform and automating workflows to accelerate engineering delivery
• Performing cost optimisation, security hardening, and proactive infrastructure fixes
• Leading internal pen testing and collaborating on platform security improvements
• Maintaining the company's CI procedures and deployment processes
• Using Terraform and/or CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code
• Working with MySQL databases (Aurora) and other AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, ElastiCache, and DocumentDB

The Person

• You have proven experience as a Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineer, ideally in a scaling or high-growth environment
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS (e.g. EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, SecretsManager, ElastiCache, DocumentDB), with experience designing secure and reliable cloud architectures.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and container orchestration
• Strong scripting skills - you're confident automating processes in Bash, Groovy, or similar
• Proficient in building and managing robust CI/CD pipelines
• You're passionate about platform security, observability, and continuous improvement
• Comfortable collaborating across product and engineering teams to improve workflows and reliability
• You have a keen eye for performance and cost efficiency in cloud architecture

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact Jill Johnston, Head of IT Contracts, at MCS Group +442896 935509

Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current and exclusive roles www.mcsgroup.jobs

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