Location
London, UK (Hybrid - typically ~1-2 days per month in office)

Hours
Full-time, Permanent

Salary
£75,000 - £90,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits

About the Role
As an AWS Senior Platform Engineer at Appvia, you will be a key contributor to platform engineering engagements, working hands-on to design, build, and operate secure, scalable AWS platforms. This role suits an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, collaborating closely with development teams, and driving continuous improvement of cloud platforms and delivery pipelines. You will operate within multi-disciplinary teams, supporting both application and platform workloads while helping customers adopt modern DevOps and platform engineering practices. You will take ownership of technical delivery within your area, contribute to solution design, and support less experienced engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

About Us
Appvia is a specialist cloud and platform engineering consultancy and product house helping organisations build, secure, and scale in the cloud. We work with public and private sector customers to design modern cloud platforms, embed strong engineering practices, and enable teams to deliver software faster and more reliably. Our focus is on platform engineering, DevOps, automation, and cloud-native delivery, creating foundations that balance developer velocity with security, resilience, and governance.

Important
You must either hold active UK Government Security Clearance (SC) or be eligible for SC:
- British Passport or Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)
- Have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years
- Have no criminal records
- Have no financial irregularities

Experience
- Hands-on experience building and operating AWS platforms
- Strong understanding of modern CI/CD and automation practices
- Experience designing and operating AWS environments
- Infrastructure as Code expertise, especially Terraform (CloudFormation/CDK beneficial)
- Experience with containerised workloads using Kubernetes and managed services such as EKS
- Knowledge of AWS networking constructs including VPCs, load balancing, and connectivity
- Experience delivering cloud migration, optimisation, or platform initiatives
- Comfortable working in consulting or customer-facing roles

About You
You are a strong AWS engineer with a background in cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps, comfortable working in client-facing environments and contributing directly to delivery. You bring confidence collaborating with engineers, architects, and delivery leads, and a pragmatic approach to improving reliability, security, and developer experience. You have a mindset of continuous learning and improvement and are able to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams.

Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate AWS-based platform components aligned to best practices
- Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to support faster and safer delivery
- Support containerised workloads using Kubernetes and managed services such as EKS
- Work closely with application teams to enable cloud-native patterns and platform adoption
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve operational visibility
- Create reusable templates, modules, and deployment patterns
- Contribute to continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, and security
- Support onboarding of new workloads and teams onto shared cloud platforms
- Share knowledge through code reviews, documentation, and mentoring

Qualifications
- Certification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an associate level is highly desirable, for example:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (highly desirable)
- Certification in Kubernetes and Terraform administration is desirable:
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Terraform Associate