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Cloud Platform Engineer - Cambridge
£70,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong experience architecting and managing AWS environments, including EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, and IAM.
- Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform or similar) and integrating them into CI/CD workflows.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes operations on AWS (EKS), including cluster scaling and deployment automation.
- Proficiency in Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and cloud security principles.
- Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, with structured alerting practices.
- Knowledge of database operations, including migrations, high availability, backups, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Skilled in automation and scripting using Terraform, Python, or Bash.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on driving efficiency and reliability through automation.
- Ideally hold a 2:1 or higher degree in a technical discipline, though this is not a strict requirement.
- Willingness to relocate to Cambridge or be within commuting distance.
Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain robust cloud environments on AWS, leveraging services such as EC2, EKS, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and CloudFront.
- Lead the rollout and optimization of Kubernetes on EKS, ensuring reliable deployments and efficient scaling across workloads.
- Design automated infrastructure solutions using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform, integrating them seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines.
- Introduce and refine deployment strategies that minimize downtime, including blue/green, rolling, and canary approaches.
- Strengthen platform resilience by improving autoscaling, high availability, and eliminating single points of failure.
- Work closely with SRE and Security teams to enhance monitoring and observability through Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
- Embed security best practices into every layer of the platform, covering IAM, secrets management, WAF, and compliance.
- Drive cost efficiency and performance improvements through proactive automation and resource optimization.
- Contribute to operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.
Description
We are a global technology leader based in Cambridge, offering a hybrid working environment. As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building and evolving our scalable cloud ecosystem. Youll have the opportunity to design high-performance infrastructure that supports critical applications while working collaboratively with diverse teams. We offer a competitive salary range of £70,000 - £100,000, depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package.
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