AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Role overview Build and operate cloud infrastructure for logistics and delivery software as part of a cross-disciplinary engineering team. You’ll work with solution architects and clients to shape technical choices, deliver infrastructure through code, and help keep services secure, observable, and reliable.

Responsibilities - Assess technology and delivery approaches with solution architects, taking client needs into account. - Guide technical discussions on engineering practices, risks, and mitigation. - Implement, test, and maintain security measures across cloud infrastructure and deployments. - Build monitoring, logging, and tracing into services and platform components. - Develop and deploy infrastructure and application changes using automated delivery practices.

Requirements - Hands-on experience building infrastructure and deploying code on a major cloud platform; AWS is preferred. - Experience implementing and maintaining monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Grafana or equivalent. - Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to teammates and clients. - Understanding of infrastructure and configuration as code, CI/CD and safe deployment approaches, cloud-native design, observability, developer experience, and DevOps or SRE practices. - Familiarity with infrastructure quality standards and risk-aware engineering.

Nice to have - Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps. - Production experience operating observability stacks with Kubernetes or cloud-native services. - Experience with configuration tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt, and CI systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitLab CI. - Scripting with Python, Bash, PowerShell, Ruby, or Perl; automated testing with tools such as Selenium, JMeter, Lighthouse, or k6.

Benefits and work setup - Contract role based in London or remote, with an ASAP preferred start.