Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential IoT platform company seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Cloud Platform team in the United Kingdom. Our talent team is working with an organization that operates critical infrastructure at scale, serving industries that power the global economy.

As a Senior Engineer in the Infrastructure organization, you will help evolve cloud foundations that support enterprise-scale products. Your goal will be to reduce systemic production risk and enable continued growth by making infrastructure safer to change, easier to operate, and more resilient and cost-efficient at scale.

You will bring deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain—such as compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud control planes—and apply it across multi-account, multi-region AWS environments. You will lead work such as modernizing compute and stateful infrastructure, strengthening capacity and failure isolation, and building standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms, bringing depth in one or more areas such as compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, or infrastructure control planes
• Improve the scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency of critical production infrastructure
• Build standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation that support self-service provisioning, testing, progressive rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards that prevent localized failures from escalating into broad customer impact
• Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures, including regulated environments such as GovCloud
• Participate in operational ownership and incident response, using incidents and near misses to drive durable architectural improvements
• Mentor engineers, raise the quality of infrastructure design and operational judgment, and establish patterns that can be adopted across the organization
• Clearly communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including operating critical systems in production
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following: compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure control planes
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language
• Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on a major public cloud platform; AWS experience is preferred
• Experience using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, to safely manage production infrastructure
• Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams and through ambiguous problem spaces
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Ideal candidates also have experience with:

• Designing and operating large-scale compute or container platforms such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration systems
• Designing and operating stateful distributed systems such as Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases, caching, or large-scale storage platforms
• Building internal infrastructure platforms, control planes, or self-service developer experiences adopted across multiple teams
• Designing multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures with strong workload isolation and disaster recovery
• Leading major infrastructure migrations while maintaining availability and controlling operational risk
• Delivering measurable improvements in infrastructure capacity, cost efficiency, or developer self-service

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your profile and schedule an initial screening call to discuss your background, technical expertise, and career goals. If there's a strong match, we will submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—we manage all communication and coordination throughout the interview process to ensure the best experience for you.

Our client offers a flexible working model that supports both office-based and remote work where it aligns with operational requirements. This role is based in the United Kingdom, and the organization maintains offices for those who prefer in-person collaboration.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive with market rates for senior infrastructure engineering roles in the UK.

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