Platform Engineer

Vallum Associates
London, United Kingdom
Today
£40,000 – £60,000 pa

Salary

£40,000 – £60,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
22 Apr 2026 (Today)

Key Responsibilities

* Own and evolve the AWS/CDP architecture for data migration, ingestion, and downstream consumption

* Define and enforce engineering standards (Terraform, CI/CD, pipeline design, naming conventions)

* Lead platform engineering and infrastructure delivery (IaC, networking, security, environment setup)

* Lead and deliver the migration of ~8–10 enterprise databases into AWS using DMS and CDC patterns

* Ensure migration pipelines are scalable, automated, and resilient

* Enable event-driven and batch data pipelines (S3, Lambda, orchestration)

* Ensure data lineage, cataloguing, and documentation are captured

Required Experience & Skills

* 5+ years in cloud, platform or data engineering roles, including leadership experience

* Strong AWS experience: S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC/networking, DMS

* Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines

* Strong Python and SQL skills

* Understanding of data platforms (e.g. Snowflake/CDP) and ingestion pipelines

* Exposure to AI/ML enablement frameworks (.e.g AWS SageMaker) and supporting infrastructure for model training, deployment

* Familiarity with modern development and deployment frameworks

* Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills

* Experience delivering large-scale data migrations, including CDC approaches

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