Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

Reporting to: Lead – Cloud Infrastructure

Funds-Axis is a regulatory Technology organization. It is our ambition to substantially grow our business internationally over the coming years.  Global Exchanges (Fund Regulations) team have the responsibility for ensuring that we stay up-to-date with relevant regulatory developments and ensuring that our regulatory products are up-to-date and well-maintained.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering, with exposure to live production environments. 

• Practical end-to-end experience across planning, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and operational support. 

• Experience designing, building, and supporting secure, scalable, and reliable AWS-based solutions in production. 

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and CI/CD processes in enterprise or product environments. 

• Experience working with containerised applications and supporting deployments across non-production and production environments. 

• Good understanding of networking, security, identity and access management, backup and recovery, and operational best practices in cloud environments. 

• Practical experience in AWS cost management, including identifying optimisation opportunities, improving resource utilisation, and supporting cost-conscious infrastructure decisions. 

• A practical and collaborative approach, with willingness to contribute to planning, implementation, troubleshooting, continuous improvement, and cost optimisation activities.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Contribute to the planning, design, implementation, and ongoing support of cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions. 

• Build, maintain, and improve secure, scalable, and reliable AWS platforms that support business-critical applications. 

• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines to enable consistent, efficient, and reliable software delivery. 

• Work with engineering, architecture, security, and support teams to help ensure solutions are practical, supportable, and production ready. 

• Support infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation initiatives to improve consistency and reduce manual effort. 

• Monitor platform health, troubleshoot issues, and assist with incident resolution and root cause analysis for production environments. 

• Help implement logging, alerting, and observability capabilities to improve reliability, visibility, and operational response. 

• Support cloud security, patching, backup, recovery, and access control activities in line with operational standards. 

• Assist with environment planning, performance tuning, and cost optimisation across cloud services and workloads. 

• Analyse AWS usage and spending patterns help identify cost-saving opportunities, and support implementation of cost management best practices such as rightsizing, scheduling, tagging, and resource optimisation. 

• Take a hands-on approach to delivery, working across planning and implementation while contributing to continuous platform improvement. 

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED 

• Hands-on experience with AWS services across compute, networking, storage, security, monitoring, and platform operations, such as EC2, ECS, EKS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, RDS, and S3. 

• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules and environment configuration. 

• Experience with CI/CD tooling and deployment automation using platforms such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Circle CI or similar tools. 

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. 

• Scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages. 

• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools to support operational reliability and troubleshooting. 

• Understanding of cloud security, secrets management, patching, access control, and operational governance. 

• Experience with AWS cost management and optimisation, including cost analysis, resource rightsizing, tagging practices, usage reporting, and identifying opportunities to improve cost efficiency. 

• Familiarity with AWS cost and billing tools such as Cost Explorer, Budgets, tagging strategies, and FinOps-oriented cost governance practices. 

• Working knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, with experience supporting performance tuning and performance improvements in production environments. 

• Strong problem-solving skills and a practical approach to troubleshooting infrastructure, deployment, and cost efficiency issues 

CERTIFICATIONS 

Certifications required 

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional 

Good to have 

• Terraform Associate  

• Kubernetes, DevOps, or cloud security certifications. 

• Additional AWS certifications in DevOps, Security, or Advanced Networking. 

WHY CHOOSE US?

In return for your commitment, we offer a strong remuneration package and significant opportunities to grow and develop as our business expands, including:

• 33 days' vacation leave per annum (prorated if starting during the leave year). This includes all bank holidays/statutory days.
• 5% employer contribution pension
• Healthcare and life insurance
• Progressive maternity and paternity pay
• Work with a great team
• Travel opportunities
• Work with leading international finance companies
• First-class training package
• Excellent career progression opportunities
• Free, secure city centre parking onsite