Lead AWS Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 17, 2026.
Join PEXA Go as a Lead AWS Platform Engineer. In this hands-on role, you'll shape the platform's strategy and architecture, design and deploy infrastructure, manage upgrades, and improve automation. You'll work closely with platform and software engineers, product teams, and operational colleagues, and take part in the paid platform engineering on-call rota. Strong experience in building and operating production platforms in AWS is required.
Missions
- Concevoir, construire et améliorer les services AWS qui soutiennent PEXA Go, y compris EKS, RDS et Aurora, MSK, S3, IAM et le réseau de base.
- Développer et maintenir l'infrastructure en tant que code en utilisant Terraform, ainsi que les pipelines qui la déploient.
- Planifier et livrer les mises à niveau de la plateforme, le travail de cycle de vie et les améliorations techniques.
Profil recherché
- You’ll have strong experience building and operating production platforms in AWS, and be comfortable taking complex engineering work from design through to delivery- Knowledge of cloud security, vulnerability management and cost optimisation
- The judgement to balance delivery pace with reliability, security, supportability and cost
- Strong Terraform experience, including modules, testing, version control and state management
- Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing and actionable alerting
- Practical expertise in EKS, Kubernetes, AWS networking, identity and access management, storage, databases and managed messaging
- Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working across technical teams
- Experience with CI/CD and secure deployment practices
- A good understanding of high availability, backup, disaster recovery, failover and capacity management
- Experience with platforms such as Kong or Unleash, or in financial services or another environment with demanding resilience and assurance requirements, would be useful