{"id":1681977,"url":"https://alion.io/job/clio-platform-engineer","title":"Platform Engineer","company":{"id":5273,"name":"Clio","domain":"clio.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/clio","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["London, United Kingdom","United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":69700,"max":94300,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":124794},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"Buildkite","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Self-Healing","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon Aurora","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"MySQL","optional":true},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-26T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-26","last_verified_at":"2026-10-05T00:20:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":40,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":40},"description":"Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.\nWe are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.\nSummary:\nWe are currently seeking a Systems Engineer, Production to join our Platform Team. This role is available to candidates across the UK.\nWhat your team does:\nThe Systems Engineering team at Clio builds and operates the systems that power all of our cloud-based products and services. We design, automate, and maintain the infrastructure that enables our global teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions to thousands of customers every day. Our mission is to make deploying and operating software effortless and safe. We focus on automation, observability, and reliability, ensuring every engineering team at Clio can move faster and with confidence. You’ll be part of a globally distributed team, collaborating closely with engineers in North America and Europe, driving technical excellence across Clio’s production environments.\nWho you are:\nYou’re an experienced platform engineer who thrives on building infrastructure that just works - scalable, secure, and self-healing. When you're solving problems, you're just as comfortable writing code as you are digging into cloud architecture. You communicate clearly, enjoy mentoring others, and bring both curiosity and calm to complex challenges.\nWhat you’ll work on:\nDesign, build, and maintain the AWS infrastructure supporting Clio’s production environments.\n\nImplement and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ensuring reproducibility and compliance.\n\nCollaborate with developers to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and overall developer experience.\n\nEnhance observability and reliability, refining alerting, monitoring, and incident response.\n\nCollaborate on cloud optimization projects, improving performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.\n\nMentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.\n\nPartner with Security, MLOps, and Product Engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant systems.\n\nDefine agentic patterns to inflect the way we build, deploy, and observe cloud infrastructure.\n\nWhat you may have:\nExperience designing, deploying, and operating AWS infrastructure and managed services (like RDS, EKS, Lambda) at scale.\n\nExpertise with Terraform and infrastructure automation.\n\nStrong coding foundation, beyond scripting, with experience in application development or designing and building robust automation frameworks and tooling\n\nExperience in container orchestration and cluster management.\n\nExperience with CI/CD systems such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, etc.\n\nExperience with relational or non-relational datastores in a production environment.\n\nFamiliarity with observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).\n\nFamiliarity with Linux systems administration, networking, and troubleshooting.\n\nExcellent communication and documentation abilities, with a focus on knowledge sharing and team collaboration.\n\nGrowth mindset when it comes to process improvement and new technologies, especially AI.\n\nSerious bonus points if you have:\nExperience with Kubernetes (EKS) on AWS in production environments.\n\nExpertise with best practices for managing and securing cloud environments at scale.\n\nPrior experience leveraging AI to accelerate yourself and your team through generating code and debugging infrastructure issues.\n\nPrior experience in platform engineering or developer productivity teams.\n\nPrior experience working with software teams building and shipping applications to the cloud.\n\nHands-on experience managing and scaling distributed data stores (e.g., MySQL/Aurora) at scale, including troubleshooting database bottlenecks and implementing robust backup and disaster recovery strategies.\n\nWhat you will find here:\nCompensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.\nSome highlights of our Total Rewards program include:\nCompetitive, equitable salary\n\nClio offers a flexible hybrid work environment\n\n25 days holiday + bank holidays\n\nPrivate Healthcare with Life Insurance & Critical Illness cover\n\nPension contribution\n\nProfessional development and growth options\n\nClioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years\n\nThe expected salary range for this role is £69,700 to £94,300 GBP. Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility\nOur team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated todiversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.\nClio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.\nLearn more about our culture atclio.com/careers\nWe're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. 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