Platform Engineer (AWS & Kubernetes Focus)

Our client, a leading technology consultancy, is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join their growing cloud engineering practice. This is an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale, cloud-native transformation projects across a diverse portfolio of enterprise clients, predominantly within financial services.

As a Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling secure, resilient, and automated platforms in AWS, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes-based workloads.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Build, manage, and optimise Kubernetes platforms (EKS preferred)
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to enable high-velocity, low-risk deployments
• Improve observability, reliability, and performance across distributed systems
• Implement DevOps best practices and promote platform engineering standards
• Work closely with client teams to enable cloud adoption and modernisation

Key skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, EKS)
• Production experience with Kubernetes (ideally EKS)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Containerisation (Docker)
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture principles

Desirable:

• Experience in consultancy or client-facing roles
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, etc.)
• GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Scripting (Python, Bash, or similar)
• AWS certifications