AWS Platform Engineer
Core
Provision and maintain AWS infrastructure, evolve the organizational Landing Zone, and support development squads with platform services and best practices.
Role type
Senior IC AWS Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)
Builds
Global, scalable payment solutions and financial experiences for Santander Group's clients
Domain
Financial Services / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
AWS Cloud services (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, VPC, IAM), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), Linux/Windows administration, Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), Network connectivity (Direct Connect, PrivateLink, VPN), Backup and Disaster Recovery, Observability (CloudWatch), CI/CD pipelines, FinOps
Preferred skills
AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer), AI tools (Devin, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot), Advanced AWS security (KMS, Secrets Manager), Multi-region database strategies, Hybrid cloud architecture
Technologies
AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Linux, Windows, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
Responsibilities
Provision and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform; Evolve and sustain the Landing Zone ensuring compliance and security; Manage and optimize compute, storage, database, and network resources; Implement secure connectivity strategies between cloud and on-premises; Define and implement backup, high availability, and disaster recovery policies; Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and connectivity incidents; Support development squads in platform service usage; Automate operational processes; Conduct technical analyses and PoCs for new services; Document architectures and operational procedures
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC