Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

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 ArgoCDKnowledge 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.