Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

A leading Global Financial Services company has an exciting opportunity for a AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to join a large enterprise technology team working on secure, scalable and automated cloud platform services with expert level AWS infrastructure, Python automation, Terraform, cloud networking and security experience.

Extensive experience with the Boto3 SDK for Python, enabling you to programmatically manage AWS infrastructure. Your expertise should include automating complex tasks such as resource provisioning, configuration management for S3 and EC2, and executing advanced queries within DynamoDB environments to ensure operational efficiency and consistency.

Key Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining secure, automated AWS platform services.
• Writing automation using Python, including AWS SDK / Boto-style tooling.
• Creating and managing infrastructure using Terraform.
• Supporting AWS networking, access control, security and governance requirements.
• Helping application teams with AWS design, troubleshooting and best practice.
• Improving platform reliability, scalability, cost efficiency and operational resilience.
• Working closely with engineers, architects and delivery teams to solve complex cloud problems.
• Contributing to a collaborative engineering culture with peer review, shared ownership and continuous improvement.

Essential Skills / Experience

• AWS cloud engineering
• Python automation Boto3 SDK for Python
• Terraform
• AWS networking IAM / RBAC / access control
• Linux Git Shell scripting
• CI/CD pipelines
• Production cloud environments