Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer A unique opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a well-funded early-stage technology company. Initially working remotely, with plans for a hybrid London office, you will play a key role in building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that supports an innovative software platform. Working across AWS, CI/CD, containerisation, monitoring and deployment, you will help create a secure, scalable and reliable platform that enables software engineers to deliver high-quality products efficiently. With the company at an exciting stage of growth, this role offers an excellent long-term career path, including leadership if you wish. Due to the nature of some client projects, you must be willing and eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance. You can join the team and work on other commercial projects while your clearance application is progressing. Location: London office, hybrid, minimum 2 days a week Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 basic salary Requirements for Senior Platform Engineer: Strong commercial experience working with AWS, including cloud infrastructure and application hostingExperience with Docker and containerised applicationsExperience deploying and managing container-based workloads, ideally using Amazon ECSGood understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automationCommercial experience using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Experience using cloud monitoring and observability tools to support platform reliabilityEnjoy working in a fast-paced start-up environment where you can take ownership, influence technical direction and make a genuine impact on the company's successExcellent communication skills, with the confidence to work closely with software engineers, product teams and senior stakeholdersYou must be willing and eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance due to the nature of some projects (this typically requires at least 5 years' continuous UK residency and a clean criminal record)Exposure to any of the following would be beneficial: Python, TypeScript, Amazon ECR, AWS KMS and AWS Lambda Responsibilities for Senior Platform Engineer: Build and maintain the AWS cloud platform that supports the company's software applicationsDevelop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, efficient and frequent software releasesManage containerised deployments using Docker and Amazon ECS, ensuring environments are secure and scalableImplement monitoring, logging and alerting solutions to improve platform performance, reliability and visibilityWork closely with software engineers to streamline development and deployment processes while maintaining strong security standardsProduce clear technical documentation and platform guidance to support a growing engineering team What this role offers: Join a well-funded technology start-up at an exciting stage of its growth journeyWork with a modern, cutting-edge technology stack on an innovative software platformExcellent career progression with multiple technical and leadership pathways as the company continues to growA collaborative engineering culture that encourages ownership, innovation and continuous learningAn excellent salary and comprehensive benefits package Applications: If you would like to enquire about this unique Platform opportunity, we would love to hear from you. Please send an up-to-date CV via the relevant link. We’re committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments for your application or during the review process, please highlight this by separately emailing applications@redtech-recruit.com (if this email address has been removed by the job board, full contact details are readily available on our website). RedTech Recruitment Ltd focuses on finding roles for Engineers and Scientists leaving academia, entering industry. Even if the above role isn’t of interest, please visit our website to see our other opportunities. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at RedTech. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Keywords: Senior Platform Engineer / Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer / SRE Engineer / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer / AWS Engineer / Platform Developer / Systems Engineer / Infrastructure Developer / AWS / Docker / Amazon ECS / CI/CD / Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC) / Cloud Monitoring / Observability / Amazon ECR / AWS Lambda / AWS KMS / Python / TypeScript / Computer Science / Software Engineering / Engineering / Mathematics / Physics