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Lead AWS Platform Engineer
PEXA · United Kingdom · Remote
United Kingdom80,000-85,000 GBP/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
Performance-based incentives; equity plan for eligible employees; employee referral bonus; health spending allowance; wellness and study leave; employee discounts; paid family leave for eligible employees; paid volunteer day.
Location
United Kingdom · Remote
British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Lead hands-on engineering for the strategy, architecture and delivery of a reliable, secure AWS platform. Design and operate infrastructure for a digital property transaction platform using EKS, RDS and Aurora, MSK, S3, IAM and core networking; maintain Terraform infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines; and improve resilience, security, observability and cost efficiency. Collaborate on upgrades, safe deployments and incident response, maintain operational documentation, and participate in a paid on-call rota.
Benefits
Four Wellness Days24/7 personal safety, medical and mental health support800 Health Flex PotDigital GP and mental health and nutrition consultationsSupport with eye tests and glassesPEXA Academy and LinkedIn LearningUp to five days of paid study leave each yearPerformance-based incentivesEquity plan for eligible employeesRecognition awards500 employee referral bonusDiscounts through Perkbox and Get ActivePaid maternity or adoption leave for eligible employeesPaid paternity leave for eligible employeesPaid Volunteer DayOption to purchase up to four additional weeks of annual leave each year
Qualifications
- Strong experience building and operating production platforms in AWS.
- Practical expertise in EKS, Kubernetes, AWS networking, identity and access management, storage, databases and managed messaging.
- Strong Terraform experience, including modules, testing, version control and state management.
- Experience with CI/CD and secure deployment practices.
- Understanding of high availability, backup, disaster recovery, failover and capacity management.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing and actionable alerting.
- Knowledge of cloud security, vulnerability management and cost optimisation.
- Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working across technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Translate platform strategy, architecture and standards into practical plans and solutions.
- Design, build and improve AWS services, including EKS, RDS and Aurora, MSK, S3, IAM and core networking.
- Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines.
- Plan and deliver platform upgrades, lifecycle work and technical improvements.
- Improve platform reliability, resilience, security, observability and cost efficiency.
- Collaborate on safe deployments, incident response and service readiness.
- Provide technical direction through design reviews, code reviews and troubleshooting.
- Maintain documentation, operating procedures and architecture records.
- Participate in the paid platform engineering on-call rota.
Skills
AWSEKSGoIAMKongKubernetesAmazon MSKS3Terraform
Work schedule
Paid platform engineering on-call rota
Industry
PropertyFinancial services
Relocation
No