At Appvia, our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monito…
📋 Job Overview
Appvia is a specialist cloud and platform engineering consultancy and product house helping organisations build, secure, and scale in the cloud. We work with public and private sector customers to design modern cloud platforms, embed strong engineering practices, and enable teams to deliver software faster and more reliably. As an AWS Senior Platform Engineer, you will be a key contributor to Appvia’s platform engineering engagements, working hands-on to design, build, and operate secure, scalable AWS platforms.
🏢 About Appvia
Appvia is a specialist cloud and platform engineering consultancy and product house helping organisations build, secure, and scale in the cloud. We work with public and private sector customers to design modern cloud platforms, embed strong engineering practices, and enable teams to deliver software faster and more reliably. Our focus is on platform engineering, DevOps, automation, and cloud-native delivery, creating foundations that balance developer velocity with security, resilience, and governance.
🎯 The Role
As an AWS Senior Platform Engineer, you will be a key contributor to Appvia’s platform engineering engagements, working hands-on to design, build, and operate secure, scalable AWS platforms. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, working closely with development teams, and contributing to the continuous improvement of cloud platforms and delivery pipelines. You’ll operate within multi-disciplinary teams, supporting both application and platform workloads while helping customers adopt modern DevOps and platform engineering practices. You’ll be expected to take ownership of technical delivery within your area, contribute to solution design, and support less experienced engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate AWS-based platform components aligned to best practices.
Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform.
Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, supporting faster and safer delivery.
Support containerised workloads using Kubernetes and managed services such as EKS.
Work closely with application teams to enable cloud-native patterns and platform adoption.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve operational visibility.
Create reusable templates, modules, and deployment patterns.
Contribute to continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, and security.
Support onboarding of new workloads and teams onto shared cloud platforms.
Share knowledge through code reviews, documentation, and mentoring.
📌 Required Qualifications
Hands-on experience building and operating AWS platforms
A solid understanding of modern CI/CD and automation practices
Confidence collaborating with engineers, architects, and delivery leads
A pragmatic approach to improving reliability, security, and developer experience
⭐ Desirable Experience
AWS Platform Engineering: Strong experience designing and operating AWS environments.
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform experience essential; CloudFormation/CDK beneficial.
Containers: Experience with Kubernetes and managed services such as EKS.
CI/CD & DevOps: Solid understanding of Git-based workflows, pipelines, and automation.
Networking: Experience working with AWS networking constructs (VPCs, load balancing, connectivity).
Work-life balance: Flexible working hours, hybrid working, 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays, an additional day off for your birthday, enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay, Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents
For your well-being: Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%, Death in Service, Cycle to Work scheme, Electric Car Scheme, Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings, Employee Assistance Programme, Free hygiene products available in the London office
Mental health support: Free therapy through AXA, Access to the Headspace App, Trained Mental Health First Aiders
Other fun perks: Learning budget of £1,000 a year, Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia, Dog friendly office, Wear what makes you comfortable, Free snacks in the office, Pool table & ping pong table, Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more!
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
As a condition of employment, all successful candidates are required to complete Appvia's standard pre-employment checks, including right-to-work verification and reference checks, and to agree to Appvia's confidentiality and data handling policies as part of their employment terms. Screening for this role is carried out in line with UK Government vetting standards and Appvia's Information Security Management System.
You must either hold active SC, or be eligible for SC: British Passport or ILR, To have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years, Have no criminal records, Have no financial irregularities.
