Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will help build and operate a scalable, secure, and observable cloud platform across a large AWS estate. You’ll enable product teams to deliver services safely without cloud expertise, partnering with security, architecture, and ops colleagues. The role emphasizes reliability, platform maturity, and developer experience, making it central to Exerp’s global product organization. You will shape platform patterns and drive practical, automated solutions with measurable impact.

• Paid Parental Leave
• #GiveBackDays – volunteer days
• Diversity & Inclusion initiatives
• Free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

• Design, build and run shared AWS and Kubernetes capabilities to support Exerp workloads globally
• Create reusable platform patterns for account foundations, networking, identity, compute, storage, deployment and observability
• Improve internal developer platform and service catalogue (Port) with self-service paths
• Automate infrastructure and delivery using Terraform, Helm, Argo CD
• Define SLOs, operational readiness, resilience, DR and capacity planning
• Build observability with Grafana Cloud, Elastic Cloud and AWS tooling
• Participate in incident response and problem management to drive lasting improvements
• Reduce toil through automation and anti-patterns to prevent recurring failures
• Enable product teams by providing clear deployment and monitoring paths and documentation
• Protect the business with AWS Well-Architected security controls and multi-account governance
• Guide safe changes across a global estate including upgrades, migrations, and rollbacks
• Coach teams on design decisions, troubleshooting and operational practices

• Significant experience designing, building and running production platforms on AWS
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience (ideally Amazon EKS)
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform at scale
• Experience with GitOps and continuous delivery (Argo CD and Helm)

• Curious and empathetic mindset
• Collaborative and service-minded with strong communication
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting orientation
• AWS multi-account environments, IAM, identity federation, OIDC, networking, DNS, VPNs, firewalls and security controls
• Kubernetes/EKS lifecycle, scheduling, networking, storage, security and workload operations
• Terraform with modular, scalable patterns