At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and management of AWS platforms while modernising legacy systems.
- Company: Join a growing SaaS business with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Hands-on leadership role with excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Shape cloud architecture and make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Strong AWS expertise and experience in platform or software engineering required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
About the Role:
We're partnering with a growing SaaS business to hire a senior Platform Architect to own the design, security, reliability, and operational management of their AWS platform and internal IT function. This is a hands-on leadership role in a lean organisation where you'll shape cloud architecture, modernise a legacy platform into a cloud-native environment, and provide senior oversight across platform engineering, security, SRE, CI/CD, and operational IT.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the AWS platform architecture and modernisation roadmap, including migration from a Java monolith to microservices on EKS.
- Define standards for containers, runtime environments, observability, tenancy, security, and infrastructure automation.
- Lead SRE practices including SLI/SLOs, incident management, DR/BCP planning, post-mortems, and operational resilience.
- Own platform security, secure SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and software supply chain governance.
- Drive developer productivity through automation, self-service tooling, and platform standardisation.
- Provide senior oversight of IT operations including service desk governance, endpoint management, onboarding/offboarding, patching, ITAM, and MSP/vendor management.
- Act as a senior escalation point for critical incidents, outages, and operational issues.
About You:
- Experience within a platform, infrastructure, or software engineering within SaaS environments.
- Strong AWS expertise including EKS, IAM, networking, KMS, RDS, and multi-account architecture.
- Hands-on Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, and cloud security experience.
- Strong understanding of SRE, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery.
- Experience operating within regulated environments such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GxP.
- Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on operational delivery.
- AWS Solutions Architect - Professional certification required.
- CKA or CKS certification highly desirable.
AWS Platform Architect employer: Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Join a dynamic SaaS business that values innovation and collaboration, offering a hybrid work environment that promotes flexibility and work-life balance. As an AWS Platform Architect, you'll have the opportunity to lead transformative projects while benefiting from a culture that prioritises professional growth, continuous learning, and a supportive team atmosphere. With competitive salaries and a commitment to employee development, this role is perfect for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment in a forward-thinking organisation.
Contact Details:
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited Recruitment Team
