FCA Official Job description: Platform Engineer Location: Leeds, UK (3 days in office) SC Cleared: Not Required Job Type: Full-Time Relevant Experience: 10-15 Years Key responsibilities: • Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable platform solutions. Including monitoring, managing and optimising cloud-based (AWS) resources. • Feed engineering insight and experience into the wider Strategy and Architecture team to identify opportunities to improve engineering across the whole organisation. • Document all procedures and policies for maintaining and improving system infrastructure. • Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) for efficient and secure deployment and operations. Whilst also working with development teams to facilitate the deployment and operation of systems. Skills Required: Minimum - Experience as a Senior Platform Engineer including a solid understanding of software engineering principles and their application. - Experience of Scripting and pipeline automation (e.g. Jenkins and GitHub Actions). - Strong understanding of cloud services (AWS) and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). - Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform. Essential - Experience of working closely with development and infrastructure teams to quickly understand requirements and implement solutions. - Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery. - Ability to cooperate closely with both engineers and product teams — including designers, product managers, and analysts. - Hands on CloudFormation scripting, troubleshooting and debugging - Working knowledge of Chef, scripting and troubleshooting - Experience with Python scripting and troubleshooting - Experience with Jenkins pipelines (multibranch), deployments, groovy scripting - Experience with Linux commands and knowledge of troubleshooting web services - Experience with AWS services – EC2, NLB, API Gateway, ASG, etc.