Role Overview

Cressoft is hiring for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team of a UK - based health and wellness leader, operating hundreds of retail locations across the UK and Europe, and owning one of the most-used digital commerce platforms in the sector.

This role supports the evolution of scalable, secure, and standardized platform infrastructure. You’ll work on building reusable infrastructure patterns, enabling platform capabilities through automation, and improving developer experience through observability, governance, and reliability engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Design and maintain reusable infrastructure compositions and platform components across AWS and Kubernetes environments
Automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — via Terraform, Crossplane, or both
Collaborate closely with engineering teams to support onboarding to platform tools and shared services
Implement and maintain governance, security controls, and compliance policies across infrastructure
Deliver and evolve observability frameworks using tools such as Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog
Continuously improve platform tooling and developer experience through documentation, feedback loops, and enablement
Execute patching, upgrades, and maintenance of platform infrastructure and tools
Contribute to roadmap discussions, internal standards, and scaling strategies for infrastructure delivery

Required Skills & Experience

GoLang proficiency — applied in production automation or infrastructure tooling
Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes (EKS)
Proficient in using Helm for Kubernetes application deployment and management
Strong practical knowledge of AWS services (e.g. EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Crossplane, or both
Experience with at least two of the following observability tools:
CloudWatch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana
Proven implementation of:
AWS IAM policies, Kubernetes, RBAC, Least privilege access control models
Experience working with developers to integrate platform services and debug cloud-native systems

Nice to Have (Desirable)

Familiarity with ArgoCD, or Ansible
Knowledge of service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures
Contributions to platform enablement or internal tooling initiatives

Soft Skills

Excellent English speaking and writing skills
Strong communicator with the ability to explain technical solutions across teams
Comfortable working in high-autonomy, fast-moving environments
Advocates for clear documentation, operational excellence, and developer-first thinking

The daily rate will be around 350 Euro. This will be contracting job and we are looking for full time availability to work during UK working hours. The job is expected to be 5 days a week with a long term commitment spanning over years of work.

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