Senior Platform Engineer – AWS & DevOps, Leeds

For a client, we are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join a high-performing technology team delivering scalable, secure, and automated cloud platform solutions. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on engineer with strong AWS, automation, and infrastructure expertise to help drive engineering excellence across a complex enterprise environment.

• Design, build, maintain, and optimise scalable cloud platform solutions within AWS environments
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable secure and efficient software delivery
• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to implement robust platform solutions
• Contribute technical expertise into wider architecture and engineering strategy discussions
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system reliability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and infrastructure policies

• Extensive experience as a Senior Platform Engineer or similar DevOps/Infrastructure role
• Strong AWS experience across services such as EC2, API Gateway, NLB, ASG, and related cloud technologies
• Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools including CloudFormation or Terraform
• Strong experience with Jenkins pipelines, multibranch deployments, and Groovy scripting
• Experience with GitHub Actions, scripting, and automation tooling
• Strong understanding of Docker and Kubernetes container technologies
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Chef configuration management and debugging
• Python scripting experience for automation and operational tasks
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, architects, product managers, analysts, and infrastructure teams

This role would suit a proactive and technically strong engineer who enjoys solving complex platform challenges, improving delivery pipelines, and driving automation across enterprise-scale environments.