Baringa

AWS Platform Engineer (Software Developer Background)

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11 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build tools, services, and self-service workflows for developer experience and extend the internal developer platform.
  • Design, build, deploy, and operate production APIs and backend services.
  • Maintain Terraform modules, CLI tooling, versioning, and backward compatibility for the internal developer platform.
  • Design and evolve modular CI/CD systems, reusable artifacts, and infrastructure-as-code deployment automation.
  • Build and operate AI gateways and centralized AI developer platforms, including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents, knowledge bases, and memory.
  • Design for high availability and disaster recovery and define monitoring, logging, and alerting standards.
  • Translate functional and non-functional requirements into secure, robust architectures.
  • Own and run client engagements, interact with stakeholders, make recommendations, and shape project direction.
  • Break projects into features, user stories, and tasks; coordinate releases; and coach junior engineers.
  • Support team growth and contribute to practice leadership, business development, and people leadership depending on level.

Requirements

  • 5–7 years of hands-on AWS delivery experience across platform engineering, solution design, and cloud architecture.
  • Separately, 5–7 years of experience as a working software developer in Python, Go, or Java.
  • Deep hands-on backend development experience, including production API and service design, deployment, and operations.
  • Experience building and maintaining internal developer platforms with Terraform, CLI tooling, versioning, and release management.
  • Experience with feature flags, trunk-based development, modular CI/CD templates, and infrastructure as code.
  • Knowledge of security-by-default architecture, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and governance standards.
  • Interest in or experience building AI gateways, centralized AI developer platforms, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore capabilities.
  • Ability to define and defend technical standards and proposals with architecture and security teams.
  • Experience owning client engagements, working with stakeholders, advising clients, and making recommendations.
  • Ability to coach junior engineers and support the development of team capabilities.
  • A lifelong-learning mindset and willingness to solve complex client problems.

Benefits

  • Five weeks of annual leave available at the start of each year.
  • An additional two weeks of paid 5-Year Recharge leave after five years of continuous service.
  • Hybrid working, flexible working arrangements, and flexibility around unpaid leave.
  • Three corporate responsibility days per year.
  • Annual People Fund wellbeing allowance.
  • Participation in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme.
  • Equal opportunity, inclusive recruitment, and reasonable-adjustment support.
  • Opportunities to contribute to corporate social responsibility, environmental, and community initiatives.
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1,001-5,000 employees
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