Platform Engineer - #2194185

Named Later is partnering with a Manchester-based technology business to identify the next member of their Platform Engineering team. You’ll take ownership of the AWS platform behind a high-volume, data-heavy product, working closely with development teams to deliver the critical infrastructure underpinning the business.

What you’ll be doing

• Building and running AWS infrastructure: designing and managing secure, resilient cloud environments.
• Tooling: developing and maintaining useful self-serve developer tools to help ease bottlenecks and reduce repetitive requests.
• Automating everything: to keep infrastructure repeatable and easy to change.
• Managing modern compute and data: serverless and container workloads, plus streaming and messaging pipelines at scale.
• Owning reliability: building the monitoring that catches problems early, and supporting databases and Linux estates as the platform grows.

What you’ll bring

• Broad AWS experience, ideally including ECS, EKS and Lambda.
• Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD experience.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language to a scripting level.
• Solid understanding of observability/monitoring tooling and key performance/health indicators.
• Day-to-day exposure to AI tooling would be beneficial

What are the benefits?

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working; two days per week on site in central Manchester.
• Private medical insurance and life assurance.

What now?

If your interest is piqued, click Apply to have a confidential discussion about the role.