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Platform Engineer - AWS / Terraform
£60,000 - 75,000
Planet Recruitment
Centre Promenade, Bristol
£60,000 - 75,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven hands-on experience managing AWS Cloud infrastructure across production, development, and test environments.
- Strong expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Terraform is essential).
- Demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins).
- Good knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Experience managing multiple AWS accounts with appropriate governance, billing, and security practices.
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and how they enhance the software development lifecycle.
- Knowledge and application of cloud security best practices (IAM roles, policies, least-privilege access, encryption, patching).
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK/Opensearch, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Proficiency in scripting or automation languages (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
- Track record of incident response and root cause analysis in cloud environments.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Development and Test teams, translating requirements into stable and secure environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain AWS Cloud infrastructure across production, development, and test environments.
- Design, implement, and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Build, optimise, and support CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable, and secure software delivery.
- Implement and enforce DevOps and security best practices, ensuring compliance with organisational and industry standards.
- Monitor system performance, availability, and security, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
- Automate environment provisioning and configuration to reduce manual intervention and increase consistency.
- Manage multiple AWS accounts and ensure appropriate governance, cost management, and security controls are in place.
- Support Development and Test Teams by providing stable, scalable, and secure environments tailored to their needs.
- Collaborate with Development and Test Managers to align platform services with the software development lifecycle.
- Maintain and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to provide visibility and resilience across environments.
- Evaluate and integrate new AWS services or DevOps tools to continuously enhance infrastructure capabilities.
- Produce and maintain platform documentation and runbooks, ensuring knowledge is shared and accessible.
- Contribute to incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues.
- Track and report platform metrics, including performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.
Description
We are the UK’s leading provider of electronic and paper document distribution services, delivering our services to the NHS, Local Government, and a wide range of Commercial organisations. Our innovative use of communication technology makes a real difference to patients, citizens, and businesses. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Research and Development team in a rapidly growing company. We offer a hybrid working policy, a generous company pension with an 8% employer contribution, health cash plans, and flexible wellbeing time, among other benefits. Our offices are fully air-conditioned with a modern and spacious open-plan layout, located close to major transport links.
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