Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer(On- Site)

Method Resourcing

London Area, United KingdomFull-Time · On-site£70K/yr - £75K/yr

This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone who enjoys building and improving cloud platforms, automating infrastructure and driving engineering best practices. You'll play a key role in shaping platform standards, improving operational resilience and enabling the continued growth of a business-critical technology platform.

About Method Resourcing

We’re Method—specialist recruiters in Tech, Data, and AI. We keep recruitment simple, smart, and human. Our teams connect ambitious companies with the talent shaping the future—without the noise, fluff, or overcomplication. Our consultants are well-trained, market-savvy, and full of personality, with process-driven, consistent delivery.

About The Role

They're looking to appoint a Platform Engineer to join their Engineering team, helping drive platform reliability, cloud infrastructure, security and delivery across a modern AWS environment.

Responsibilities

  • Building, maintaining and improving AWS-hosted platform infrastructure.
  • Supporting Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives using tools such as Terraform and Serverless Framework.
  • Driving automation and DevOps best practices across development and operations teams.
  • Developing and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
  • Strengthening platform security, IAM controls and governance standards.
  • Supporting cloud migration activity, infrastructure improvements and platform modernisation.
  • Enhancing monitoring, logging, alerting and observability capabilities.
  • Working closely with engineering, security and product teams to deliver platform improvements.
  • Supporting API services, backend platform components and operational readiness activities.
  • Contributing to platform reliability, scalability and long-term technical strategy.

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience within a Platform Engineering, DevOps or Cloud Engineering role.
  • Strong AWS experience, ideally across EC2, IAM, S3, CloudFront, Load Balancers and networking services.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Serverless Framework.
  • Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security, identity management and governance controls.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging and operational support tooling.
  • Exposure to distributed systems, APIs and cloud-native architectures.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across engineering, infrastructure and security teams.
  • 3+ years of work experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • 3+ years of work experience with Cloud Platforms
  • 3+ years of work experience with DevOps

Desirables

  • Experience with Akamai, WAF technologies or edge security platforms.
  • Experience with TypeScript, Python, Go or backend services development.
  • Experience supporting cloud migrations, platform transformation projects or DNS cutovers.
  • SIEM, compliance or security engineering exposure.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to play a key role in a major platform transformation programme.
  • Broad exposure across AWS, DevOps, platform engineering and security.
  • High levels of ownership and technical influence.
  • Modern cloud-first engineering environment.
  • Opportunity to influence engineering standards, automation and platform strategy.
  • Work alongside experienced engineering, infrastructure and security professionals.
  • Strong long-term career growth opportunities within a scaling technology business.

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