Senior Platform Engineer: AWS, Terraform & Scale

Methodfi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing technology firm in Greater London seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to scale infrastructure and guide technical decisions. Applicants should have extensive experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization. The role emphasizes mentorship and collaboration with engineering teams. The company offers a variety of benefits, work flexibility, and aims to integrate positive impact into their business operations.

Benefits

Salary reviews and share options

Private health insurance

Learning & development budget

Flexible working hours

Work-from-home budget

Paid time off for volunteering

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer in high-scale environments.
• Deep expertise with AWS (ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3).
• Strong grounding in containerization and production best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve AWS-based systems with a focus on automation and scale.
• Own and extend Terraform codebases for security and modularity.
• Mentor mid-level platform engineers to enhance technical excellence.

Skills

AWS expertise

Terraform proficiency

CI/CD pipeline experience

Containerization skills

Programming proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go

Linux administration skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

A growing technology firm in Greater London seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to scale infrastructure and guide technical decisions. Applicants should have extensive experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization. The role emphasizes mentorship and collaboration with engineering teams. The company offers a variety of benefits, work flexibility, and aims to integrate positive impact into their business operations.