
Senior Platform Engineer
LDMS
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cardiff • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £65,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- As a Senior Platform Engineer at LDMS, you will be responsible for the cloud infrastructure that underpins our SaaS products and internal tooling.
- We are also looking for engineers who are comfortable getting involved with other technology streams, such as Oracle Database & Middleware Administration and End User Computing.
- Accomplishes tasks independently by planning possible solutions, implementing them and testing their correctness.
- Takes time to analyse existing infrastructure and propose improvements.
- Shares their knowledge and explain your work to others by writing documentation.
- Provides guidance and mentoring to Junior Engineers in matters of technology, architecture and best practices.
- Explores new technologies by building proof-of-concept solutions.
- Understands that constant learning underpins good engineering.
Requirements
- Ability to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure that supports production services, with an understanding of how platforms evolve to meet changing technical and business needs.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ECS, RDS, and IAM, alongside a practical understanding of cloud security, networking, and scalability.
- Proven use of Infrastructure-as-Code tools (for example, Terraform or similar) to deliver repeatable, version-controlled, and well-governed infrastructure.
- Familiarity with building and improving CI/CD pipelines that enable automated, reliable delivery of infrastructure and platform changes.
- Working knowledge of observability practices and tooling, including metrics, logging, and alerting, with an understanding of how observability supports reliable operations and incident response.
- Acts as a senior technical contributor, offering guidance, design input, and constructive review to other engineers, and helping shape shared engineering standards and approaches.
- Ability to automate tasks and workflows using a high-level language such as Shell or Python.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 services such as Entra ID, Intune, Defender, and Conditional Access, particularly in security-conscious environments.
- Exposure to relational database platforms such as PostgreSQL or Oracle, including general administration and collaboration with application teams.
- Familiarity with networking concepts – VPCs, subnets, routes, gateways, firewall rules, NAT etc.
- OS Administration of Linux and Windows machines – including directly through command line and Ansible configuration management
Benefits
- Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- 1 day Birthday leave
- 1 day Charity leave
- Private Health Insurance
- EAP
- Pension (3% / 5% contribution)
- Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AWSEC2VPCECSRDSIAMTerraformCI/CDShellPython
Soft skills
independent planningproblem-solvingdocumentationmentoringguidanceknowledge sharingconstant learningcollaborationdesign inputconstructive review