Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Experience

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help build and scale Motorway's Developer Experience team. You will own AWS environments and the shared platform, shaping reliable, scalable tooling for product engineers. You’ll implement self-service capabilities and infrastructure-as-code to reduce toil and speed up deployments. You will define platform monitoring standards and mentor peers, contributing to a high-velocity, secure engineering culture. This is a chance to influence the backbone of a fast-growing, technology-led car marketplace.

• A competitive salary
• BUPA health insurance
• Discounted gym membership through BUPA
• OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
• Hybrid working
• Pension scheme

• Own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and usability.
• Design self-service tooling to simplify building, deploying, and operating services.
• Automate common workflows and standardise infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
• Define platform monitoring and alerting standards with meaningful signals.
• Enable product teams to use shared metrics to improve service reliability across environments.
• Own continuous delivery and release capabilities to reduce time to production with reliability and safety.
• Stay current with best practices in hosting, CD, and developer experience, applying pragmatically.
• Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team.

• Proven track record of owning and operating production web platforms at scale.
• Strong AWS experience in production environments.
• Experience defining metrics, monitoring, and alerting with actionable signals.
• Experience with platform security controls and observability.
• Designing and operating CD systems supporting safe, zero-downtime deployments.
• Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call setup.
• Comfortable with command-line tools and environments.
• Proficient in at least one programming language used for automation or tooling.
• Enjoy solving cross-cutting problems in collaboration with engineers.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.
• Willingness to mentor and share knowledge; on-call rotation after onboarding.

• collaboration
• mentoring
• problem-solving
• AWS production experience
• infrastructure-as-code
• platform observability and monitoring