Senior Platform Engineer (3 Month FTC)
AND Digital2 months ago
Bristol, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for an AWS cloud platform.
- Design and build scalable, secure, resilient, and reusable platform capabilities.
- Develop self-service tooling and services that improve developer productivity and abstract operational complexity.
- Drive automation across infrastructure, application delivery, operational processes, and platform management.
- Establish platform standards, engineering patterns, paved roads, and guardrails across engineering teams.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and operational efficiency.
- Lead complex platform initiatives from discovery and architectural design through implementation and operational adoption.
- Influence engineering teams and senior stakeholders on platform strategy, architecture, and technology choices.
- Mentor engineers and promote strong platform engineering, automation, ownership, and operational excellence practices.
Requirements
- Significant experience designing and operating internal developer platforms at scale.
- Experience building reusable platform services, tooling, and self-service capabilities using platform-as-a-product principles.
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, resilient, cloud-native architectures and making trade-offs across reliability, performance, cost, and developer experience.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, identity, and security.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, automated cloud provisioning, CI/CD, automated software delivery, and platform lifecycle management.
- Experience designing for resilience, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence, including SRE principles and practices.
- Experience with performance analysis, capacity planning, scalability engineering, service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvement.
- Technical leadership experience across multiple engineering teams or a wider engineering organisation.
- Ability to influence architecture and technical direction, lead complex initiatives through ambiguity, and mentor senior and developing engineers.
Benefits
- Three-month fixed-term contract.
- Blended working from home, an AND clubhouse, client locations, or another suitable location.
- Dedicated career scrum team supporting career goals and skills development.
- Annual training and upskilling budget with allocated study days.
- Monthly and quarterly team socials paid for by the company.
- Inclusive and supportive environment committed to diversity and equal opportunities.
About AND Digital
AND Digital is a London-headquartered consulting firm that builds and modernises web and mobile products, cloud platforms, and data capabilities for large consumer and enterprise brands. It embeds cross-functional teams with clients to deliver software while upskilling in-house teams through agile coaching and digital learning. Founded in 2014 and privately held, it operates across the UK and Netherlands; clients have included British Airways and Heineken.