AWS Senior Cloud Engineer
John Lewis Partnership
Overview
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will help build and evolve the Waitrose digital cloud platform on AWS, enabling faster, secure and scalable delivery of digital products. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape platform capabilities, improve reliability, and support the growth of developers. There is potential to move into people management. You’ll work in a hybrid setup from Bracknell with occasional travel as needed, contributing to a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
Pay / Benefits- hybrid working
- on-call rota (one week/month)
- employee-owned culture
- flexible working arrangements
- opportunity for leadership/people management
- Bracknell campus location
- Develop and guide the cloud platform on AWS within an Agile team
- Influence platform evolution to meet business needs
- Support project shaping and mentor less experienced engineers
- Collaborate with diverse stakeholders and communicate effectively
- Potential to move into people management
- Participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents
- Extensive AWS experience
- Infrastructure as code (CloudFormation or Terraform)
- Python for automation
- Reliability and security-focused system design
- CI/CD with Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI
- Agile with willingness to pair program
- Experience leading, coaching, mentoring
- Experience with generative AI tools
- on-call experience
- strong communication
- mentoring and coaching
- collaboration across teams
- AWS (networking, API Gateway, CloudFront, PrivateLink, VPCs)
- Terraform or CloudFormation
- Python scripting
Reference: WJ-747_30153983