Platform Engineer (AWS DevOps Architect)

Quick Facts

• Internal AWS platform engineering role with a product mindset
• Focus on developer self-service, golden paths, and measurable outcomes

Description

You will modernize and consolidate existing AWS infrastructure and evolve a Kubernetes/Terraform/CI/CD platform that engineering teams use as an internal product. The platform’s success is measured by developer experience, adoption, reliability, delivery speed, and cost. You’ll design guardrails and self-service capabilities, improve observability and security, and participate in incident response and on-call.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve reliable AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD platform capabilities for engineering teams
• Identify developer friction through conversations, feedback, and data before selecting solutions
• Build self-service capabilities, golden paths, and guardrails that make the right thing easy
• Measure outcomes such as lead time, deployment frequency, reliability, and cost
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to iterate and drive adoption
• Balance standardization and controls with usability
• Strengthen observability, resilience, security, and incident readiness
• Participate in incident response, post-incident reviews, and the on-call rota

Requirements

• Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments
• Practical experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Terraform, and Helm
• Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions and reusable pipeline design
• Experience with logging and monitoring, networking and protocols, secrets management, and service discovery
• Experience with at least one programming or scripting language
• Evidence of designing secure, reliable, and maintainable platform solutions
• Experience supporting business-critical services, including on-call rota participation
• Ability to identify developer needs and translate them into platform improvements
• Experience building self-service capabilities, reusable workflows, or guardrails adopted by engineering teams
• Ability to use data and metrics to prioritize work and evaluate impact on developer experience, reliability, delivery speed, and cost
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams to gather feedback, iterate on solutions, and drive adoption
• Ability to balance standardization, security, and operational controls with developer usability

Benefits

• Up to 26 business vacation days per year
• 10 illness/special fully paid days off per year (no medical papers required)
• Health and life insurance
• MyBenefit platform with Multisport option
• Internal psychological support service
• English language classes from the first working day
• Access to external learning platforms (O’Reilly, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy) plus internal training catalog
• Flexible work setup (office, home, or hybrid)
• Tech Skills Mentoring Program
• Opportunities to develop as a public speaker, mentor, or technical interviewer
• Certification reimbursement (AWS, GCP, Microsoft, etc.)