- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
Senior DevOps Platform Engineer
London
We are currently supporting a leading organisation looking to hire an experienced Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to join their cloud engineering function.
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled DevOps professional to work on complex cloud-native environments, designing and automating scalable platforms across AWS, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD ecosystems.
The successful candidate will play a key role in building resilient cloud platforms, improving deployment automation, supporting containerised applications and driving DevOps best practices across enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS environments
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation and automation frameworks
- Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitOps methodologies
- Manage Kubernetes platforms including EKS, container orchestration, Helm deployments and cluster optimisation
- Support application containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes-based architectures
- Implement GitOps delivery models using tools such as ArgoCD and Helm
- Develop reusable automation frameworks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployments
- Improve platform reliability, scalability and security through automation and engineering best practices
- Support cloud migrations from traditional data centre environments into modern cloud-native platforms
- Implement monitoring, observability and logging solutions across complex distributed systems
- Work closely with development, security and architecture teams to improve software delivery processes
Required Experience
- Strong commercial experience working as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
- Extensive hands-on AWS experience including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda,
- CloudWatch, ECS/EKS and networking services
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Strong Kubernetes experience including EKS, Helm, RBAC, networking and container management
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar tools
- Strong understanding of Linux systems administration and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef or similar
- Strong scripting ability using languages such as Bash, Python or PowerShell
- Understanding of cloud security principles including IAM, encryption, vulnerability management and compliance controls
Desirable Experience
- Experience working within regulated industries such as financial services, government or healthcare
- Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD
Knowledge of service mesh technologies including Istio or similar - Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk or ELK
- Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP or private cloud
- Experience with security tooling including Vault, SonarQube, OWASP, Checkov or vulnerability scanning solutions
- Experience supporting highly available, business-critical platforms
This role would suit a Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Cloud Automation Specialist looking to work on challenging enterprise environments.