Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (AWS / Terraform / Kafka) – Fintech Payments Platform Location : Remote (UK / EU time zones) Contract : 7 months (to April 2026) Start : ASAP Tech Stack : AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes / EKS, Kafka, GitOps, Cloud-Native Tooling Focus : Platform engineering & solution build (not ops / DevOps) About the Role We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to join a major UK retail group building a new Klarna-style fintech payments platform. This role sits at the heart of the cloud platform team and focuses on designing, building, and automating the core infrastructure that powers high-scale financial transactions. You’ll work in a highly technical environment, collaborating with architects, backend engineers, and security teams to deliver secure, resilient, cloud-native foundations. This is a hands‑on build role — not day‑to‑day ops or DevOps support. Key Responsibilities Platform Build & Infrastructure Engineering Design and implement scalable, resilient cloud platform components in AWS Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modular, reusable architectures) Build secure multi‑account AWS environments following Well‑Architected principles Develop internal platform tooling, automation, templates, and golden paths Support EKS / Kubernetes environments and microservice deployment foundations Event-Driven & Distributed Architecture Build and support Kafka‑based event streaming and messaging capabilities Ensure high availability, reliability, and idempotent service patterns Work with engineers to define infrastructure for distributed, real‑time systems Observability, Reliability & Performance Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing (Datadog / Grafana / ELK) Ensure SLAs / SLOs for platform components are met Contribute to disaster recovery design, multi‑region readiness, and resilience testing Security, Governance & Compliance Enforce best practices for IAM, secrets management, encryption, and network security Build guardrails, policies, and automated compliance into CI / CD and IaC workflows Contribute to platform risk assessments and mitigation strategies Collaboration & Technical Leadership Partner with architects, platform leads, and product teams to translate requirements into technical designs Work with developers to guide best practices for cloud‑native builds Mentor engineers in IaC, automation, and platform engineering patterns Skills & Experience Essential 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering Strong experience with AWS (multi‑account, networking, security, core services) Excellent Terraform skills, building modular and production‑grade IaC Solid understanding of Kubernetes / EKS or similar orchestration platforms Experience with Kafka or other event‑streaming technologies Hands‑on with CI / CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) Strong understanding of monitoring, distributed tracing, and observability Ability to work autonomously in fast‑paced, cloud‑native engineering teams Nice to Have Experience in fintech, payments, or high‑throughput distributed systems Knowledge of Well‑Architected Framework, security engineering, compliance Familiarity with service mesh, API gateways, or serverless components Exposure to Python / Go / TypeScript for automation or tooling What This Role is Not Not day‑to‑day ops or support Not traditional DevOps or SRE maintenance Not basic provisioning or infra monitoring Not a junior cloud role This is a platform build position : architecture + IaC + automation + infrastructure foundations. #J-18808-Ljbffr