Platform Engineer - AWS

Platform Engineer - AWS

Based in Central Leeds, in brand new, bespoke offices

£70,000 to £80,000, Pension, Healthcare, Dental

This company is at the forefront of the decarbonisation of heat, leveraging cutting-edge technology encompassing AR and VR to redefine domestic heating solutions.

Started three years ago, they are fully funded and are now have a major organisation as their majority shareholder.

They have developed a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that is currently at the MVP stage and is now starting to operationalise and commercialise having gained enterprise "proof of concept" contracts with two of the largest energy companies.

With this significant growth potential, they are looking for a talented Platform Engineer to help drive their SaaS platform from MVP to market leader.

This hands-on role requires familiarity with .NET environments, Cloud Computing at scale (AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, Service Design and Security.

You will sit across several cross-cutting technical pods.

What we are looking for:

Proven experience as a senior AWS Platform Engineer in a tech start-up or fast paced environment.

• Commutable to central Leeds
• Strong background in agile development methodologies.
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
• Knowledge of API (RESTful/Socket/GraphQL), microservice architecture flows and practices
• Experience with cloud-native platform patterns
• Experience working on mission-critical or SaaS services
• Experience working in - or towards ISO 27001

Technical Skills:

• Thorough understanding of key AWS products like EC2, VPCs, Lambda,
• CloudFront, RDS, DLM, and Backup Manager
• Some Proficiency in .NET and JavaScript
• Experience with SQL, including schema design and optimisation
• Experience with testing frameworks and tools
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools
• Familiarity with security tools and practices
• Experience with operating RESTful APIs and microservices.
• MVP is currently built using the following technologies and development languages, PREACT, MYSQL, Docker, .Net6, C#, C++ and Python.