Senior Platform Engineer (3 Month FTC)
AND Digital2 months ago
London, 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 and self-service tooling.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, application delivery, operational processes, and platform management.
- Establish platform standards, engineering patterns, paved roads, guardrails, and best practices.
- 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 automation, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
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.
- Strong experience with cloud-native architecture, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, identity, and security.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, automated cloud provisioning, CI/CD, and automated software delivery.
- Experience designing for resilience, fault tolerance, observability, availability, performance, and scalability.
- Experience applying SRE principles, including service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and operational practices.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or a wider engineering organization.
- Experience influencing architecture and technical direction, leading complex initiatives through ambiguity, and mentoring engineers.
Benefits
- Three-month fixed-term contract.
- Blended working from home, an AND clubhouse, client locations, or other locations.
- Dedicated career scrum team for career development.
- Annual training and upskilling budget with allocated study days.
- Monthly and quarterly team socials.
- Inclusive and supportive environment with application and interview adjustments available.
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.