Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Join the Charlotte Tilbury Beauty platform team to maintain and contribute to our AWS infrastructure that creates a luxury shopping experience for our customers. Work in small, nimble teams using SCRUM or Kanban to deliver exciting feature roadmaps.

🏢 About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded in 2013 by world-renowned makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury CBE, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has transformed the global beauty industry with one mission to empower everyone, everywhere to look and feel like the most confident version of themselves. We're a global beauty phenomenon, scaling at record speed across 50+ markets with over 3,000 Dream Team members.

🎯 The Role

The platform team looks after the infrastructure that supports the Charlotte Tilbury customer experience online, and the platform that our engineers use – from CI/CD pipelines to shared Terraform modules, from security improvements to tooling optimisation. Our squads include Product Managers and Product Designers, and part of our DNA as a company is achieving amazing things through collaboration.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and contribute to all parts of our AWS platform that creates a luxury shopping experience for our customers
• Work on platform initiatives that enable our cross-functional squads to self-serve when it comes to provisioning infrastructure from the AWS catalogue
• Contribute to our tooling and the overall developer experience of our engineers
• Review and continuously improve our cloud infrastructure, making sure it is secure, performant, and cost-efficient
• Have an opportunity to contribute to SRE and incident response

📌 Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with running services in the cloud – AWS is strongly preferred but not essential
• Experience in designing, maintaining and running production infrastructure using IAC (preferably Terraform)
• Familiarity with core AWS services (Elastic Container Service, Lambdas, CloudFront, API Gateway, S3, RDS, Route53, ElastiCache)
• Knowledge of cloud CI/CD systems, preferably GitHub Actions
• Grounding in basic networking and connectivity – VPCs, load balancers, routing
• Experience with Docker, containers and container orchestration platforms
• Experience in using a scripting language (such as Bash or Python)
• Knowledge of observability concepts and ability to utilise monitoring tools (Grafana)

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Hands-on experience with at least one non-IAC programming language (Java, Python, Typescript)
• Familiarity with security and readiness to consider security implications in every action
• Experience working in e-commerce and running commercially critical infrastructure
• Familiarity with AWS IAM, least privilege, encryption and secure access patterns

🎁 Benefits

• Be a part of this values-driven, high growth, magical journey
• Hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces
• Generous product discount and gifting

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Charlotte Tilbury is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, identities, and perspectives into our global team.