Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (observability)

Contract Inside IR35

Hybrid (3 days onsite in London)

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to take ownership of building and evolving observability capabilities across a large-scale AWS platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing telemetry pipelines, improving platform visibility, and enabling engineering teams to operate highly reliable Kubernetes-based services.

What we're looking for:

• Strong AWS experience, particularly with cloud-native infrastructure
• Hands-on Kubernetes/EKS administration in production environments
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Observability tooling including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience building monitoring, logging and distributed tracing solutions
• Strong Linux and networking knowledge
• CI/CD, automation and scripting (Python or Bash)
• Experience working in high-availability, mission-critical production environments

You’ll be responsible for:

• Building and enhancing cloud observability platforms
• Instrumenting applications and infrastructure with metrics, logs and tracesCreating dashboards, alerts and SLO-driven monitoring
• Improving platform reliability, automation and operational excellence
• Working closely with platform and software engineering teams to support production systems