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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Xplor Technologies · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomRemote
Remuneration
Paid parental leave, three additional volunteer days, free mental health support, and flexible working arrangements
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.
Job summary
The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer builds and operates shared AWS and Kubernetes capabilities for a global fitness software platform, enabling product teams to deliver and run services securely and reliably. The role develops reusable infrastructure and self-service patterns using Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, and Port, while improving observability, resilience, incident response, multi-account governance, and cost management across a large, multi-region AWS estate.
Benefits
Paid parental leaveThree additional days off for volunteeringFree mental health supportFlexible working arrangements
Qualifications
- Significant experience designing, building, and operating production platforms or distributed systems on AWS
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience, ideally with Amazon EKS, including cluster lifecycle and workload operations
- Strong Terraform experience, including maintainable projects, modules, and shared patterns at scale
- Experience with GitOps and continuous delivery, ideally using Argo CD and Helm
- Understanding of AWS multi-account environments, IAM, identity federation, OIDC, networking, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, and AWS security controls
- Experience designing observability for system health and customer-impacting troubleshooting
- Shell or Python scripting and automation skills
- Understanding of reliability, security, data privacy, change management, and globally distributed systems
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives from discovery through operational ownership
- Confident written and spoken English communication
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate shared AWS and Kubernetes platform capabilities for global workloads
- Develop reusable platform patterns for accounts, networking, identity, compute, storage, deployment, and observability
- Automate infrastructure and application delivery with Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD
- Improve the internal developer platform and service catalogue, including self-service provisioning
- Define and improve service-level objectives, operational readiness, resilience, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
- Build observability using Grafana Cloud, Elastic Cloud, and AWS-native tools
- Participate in incident response and problem management, and reduce recurring operational toil
- Apply AWS Well-Architected principles and security practices across identity, access, data protection, and governance
- Improve cost visibility and resource efficiency
- Document platform practices, support engineering teams, and coach colleagues
Skills
Argo CDAWSBashEKSGrafanaGrafana CloudHelmIAMJavaKubernetesPythonTerraformElasticsearchGitOpenVPNPortainerRoute 53
Languages
English
Work schedule
Flexible working arrangements
Industry
Fitness softwareCloud platforms
Relocation
No