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Technology makes it possible; people make it happen and you could be part of that.\nThe Tracsis Group has grown rapidly, diversifying into related transport technologies, and successfully executing a strategy that has seen it make a total of seventeen acquisitions.\nToday Tracsis is a leading provider of software, hardware, data analytics/GIS and services for the rail, traffic data and wider transport industries. The Group has c.550 permanent employees serving its growing customer base from offices in the UK, Ireland and the US.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to help design, build and operate our AWS-based platform. As a senior technical contributor within our Platform Engineering function, you'll play a key role in shaping the capabilities that underpin our strategic objectives across Developer Experience, Service Reliability, and Business Agility.\nYou’ll work primarily with AWS (EKS), alongside the CNCF ecosystem, Istio service mesh, ArgoCD, Terraform & Crossplane, and GitLab CI/CD. Experience with GKE or Azure is a plus. 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