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Senior Platform Engineer | Cloud & DevOps | AWS | Kubernetes | IaC
Bedford, United Kingdom
Only remote
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Argo CDPlatform EngineeringMicrosoft AzureBash ShellCloud ComputingCloud EngineeringDevOpsPython (Programming Language)OpenShiftOpenStackAWS CLIAnsibleVagrantInfrastructure as Code (IaC)AWS VPC
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Extensive experience with IaC and automation tools including Terragrunt, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Packer, Python, Bash, and Groovy. Proven track record of creating and executing multi-account AWS IaC deployments and automating CI/CD pipelines to streamline microservices deployments across hybrid environments.
Cloud Platforms & Architecture
Deep expertise across AWS (Multi-Account, EKS, IAM, VPC, TGW) and Hybrid Cloud environments. Hands-on experience managing enterprise multi-account AWS landing zones with 60+ accounts, ensuring central security, IAM policy enforcement, and transit routing. Previous experience with Microsoft Azure & OpenStack.
Containerisation & Virtualisation
Strong proficiency in Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, OpenShift, Vagrant, VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM. Skilled in developing local-footprint containerised dev environments and deploying enterprise shared services across multiple AWS EKS clusters utilising GitOps methodologies.
CI/CD Tools & GitOps
Proficiency with Helm, Argo CD, FluxCD, Jenkins, Git, GitLab CI, CodeArtifact, CodeBuild, Harbor, and Artifactory. Established automated CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins, Bitbucket, Lambda, and ECR to streamline microservices deployments.
Observability & Monitoring
Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch, and CloudTrail. Architected enhanced, automated observability and monitoring solutions across client environments.
Security & Compliance
Solid knowledge of AWS Secrets Manager, AWS SSO, WAF, Cognito, IAM, GuardDuty, OpenSSL, Vault, PKI, and mTLS. Implemented GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 and enforced IAM policy management across enterprise environments.
Serverless & Event-Driven Architecture
Experience architecting and deploying serverless promotion pipelines using ALBs, Lambda, DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams, Eventbridge, CodeBuild, and S3 for Git repositories and ECR artefacts.
Networking & Infrastructure
Background in network and infrastructure engineering including Cisco ACI, F5 Big-IP, VPN, Transit Gateway, AWS Active Directory, SSM, and AWS Backup. Streamlined infrastructure provisioning across multi-cloud and on-premise networks for enterprise projects.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2009
Languages
EnglishNative speaker
Project history
Joined a Home Office project to manage and improve the existing cloud infrastructure, spent the last 8 months of the contract working on an environment migration project. Created and executed multi-account AWS IaC deployments using Terragrunt to facilitate zero-downtime deployments and upgrades. Developed local-footprint containerised dev environments using Docker and Helm. Architected and deployed serverless promotion pipelines for Git repositories and ECR artefacts using ALBs, Lambda, DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams, Eventbridge, CodeBuild, S3, and GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3. Established automated CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins, Bitbucket, Lambda, and ECR to streamline microservices deployments across hybrid on-premise and AWS environments.
Embedded with the Cloud Office team to drive a large-scale data centre to AWS migration program. Managed an enterprise multi-account AWS landing zone consisting of 60+ AWS accounts. Deployed and automated enterprise shared services (Argo CD, Harbor, SonarQube, Elastic Stack) across multiple AWS EKS clusters utilising GitOps methodologies (FluxCD and Helm). Created Ansible playbooks to standardise configuration management across cloud instances. Automated deployment of core AWS features including IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, SSO, Cognito, S3, VPN, Transit Gateway, AWS Active Directory, CloudWatch, SSM, AWS Backup, WAF, and Shield.
Approached by White Clarke Group to return on a short-term contract to accelerate their CI/CD automation to streamline client environment deployments. Created IaC processes using Terraform, Packer, Bitbucket, PowerShell, and Bash scripts to deploy Windows/Linux environments into AWS, reducing deployment times from days to hours. Provisioned full AWS application stacks via modular Terraform code. Developed Ansible playbooks to ensure deployed environments remained stable, secure, and highly available.