Summary
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A hands-on lead platform engineering role responsible for the cloud infrastructure behind production SaaS applications. You will own AWS environments, Terraform standards, deployment automation, networking, observability, security, databases, and incident response. The position is fully remote within one country and does not provide sponsorship.
Highlights
Hands-on technical ownership of production cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on resilience, security, automation, and operational excellence. Fully remote within the UK, with a lead-level scope that prioritizes technical impact over people management.
Description
Lead Platform Engineer – Hands-on | AWS | Terraform | SaaS
up to £80k plus benefits
UK Remote - you cant be based outside the UK, we cant offer sponsorship
We’re supporting a SaaS organisation looking for a senior, hands-on Platform Engineer to take technical ownership of the cloud infrastructure underpinning its production products.
Although this is a lead-level position, it is not primarily a people-management role.
You’ll work directly with the technology, collaborating with development teams to improve the consistency, resilience and security of the platform.
You’ll take ownership across:
• AWS cloud infrastructure and production environments
• Terraform modules, state management and infrastructure standards
• CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments
• Cloud networking, connectivity, DNS and load balancing
• Monitoring, alerting and observability
• Cloud security, IAM, privileged access and secrets management
• Database availability, backup and recovery
• Incident management, root-cause analysis and P1 support
• Disaster recovery, restore testing and RTO/RPO planning
• Runbooks, operational standards and production support processes
We’re looking for someone with substantial, recent hands-on experience across AWS and Terraform, combined with a strong understanding of how production SaaS platforms should be operated.
You might currently be working as a Lead Platform Engineer, Senior Platform Engineer, Principal DevOps Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Lead or Senior Site Reliability Engineer.
Previous line-management experience would be useful, but it is not required.
Experience with Azure or GCP would be beneficial, particularly within a multi-cloud environment.
Exposure to technologies such as ECS, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Aurora, DynamoDB, Azure App Services, Azure SQL, Datadog, Ansible and mixed Windows/Linux estates would also be valuable.
The important thing is that you are still technically hands-on and comfortable taking direct responsibility for production infrastructure—not operating solely at an architectural or management level.
Interested? Apply or get in touch for a confidential conversation.
