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Senior Platform Engineer (AWS)
PEXA · United Kingdom · Remote
United Kingdom70,000-80,000 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Performance-based incentives and equity plan for eligible employees
Location
United Kingdom · Remote
Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Build and operate the AWS platform behind PEXA Go, supporting reliable, secure services for digital property transactions in the UK. The role includes maintaining infrastructure, automating deployments, operating Kubernetes workloads, improving monitoring and incident response, and making safe, documented changes to production systems in collaboration with engineering, operations, product, security, and risk teams.
Benefits
Four wellness days per year800 health flex allowanceUp to five days of paid study leave per yearPerformance-based incentivesEquity plan for eligible employees500 employee referral bonusUp to 20 weeks of paid maternity or adoption leave for eligible employeesUp to four weeks of paid paternity leave for eligible employeesPaid volunteer dayOption to purchase up to four additional weeks of annual leave
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience engineering and operating production workloads on AWS.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, scripting, and automation.
- Experience with containerised applications and Kubernetes, including operational troubleshooting.
- Experience using or setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting for production systems.
- Ability to investigate incidents and make safe, documented changes to live services.
- Understanding of cloud security, networking, resilience, backup, and recovery.
- Ability to work effectively with software engineers and explain technical risks and options.
Responsibilities
- Build, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure and platform services.
- Implement infrastructure changes using code and automation.
- Deliver upgrades, technical remediation, and lifecycle work while identifying dependencies and risks.
- Improve platform monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Investigate platform incidents, restore service, and help prevent recurrence.
- Make safe, documented changes to live services and contribute to incident reviews.
- Apply security controls and engineering standards to infrastructure, access, configuration, and platform changes.
- Communicate progress, risks, and technical options to colleagues.
- Share knowledge and improve platform operations.
Skills
AWSGoKubernetesAnsibleBashCloudWatchDockerGrafanaLinuxOpenTelemetryPrometheusPythonTerraform
Work schedule
Paid on-call support
Industry
Property technology
Relocation
No