# Senior Cloud Platform Engineer **Company**: Xplor **Location**: London, England **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Xplor/744000159652925-senior-cloud-platform-engineer?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ece05b43-f2c ## Description Xplor Technologies powers the experiences at the heart of everyday life. Through modern vertical software, embedded payments, and AI-powered capabilities, we help businesses in fitness, recreation, golf and club, field services, laundry, education, and other membership-based and service-based industries simplify operations, uncover insights, and elevate customer and member experiences. About the opportunity Exerp provides software that powers the day-to-day operations of leading fitness businesses worldwide. Our Cloud team builds and runs the platform those solutions sit on. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll help make that platform reliable, secure, observable and easy for product teams to use. You’ll work across a large AWS estate (hundreds of accounts, multiple workloads, eight regions), building durable platform capabilities and well-supported ways of working. The goal is to let engineering teams deliver and run services safely without needing to become cloud infrastructure specialists. Responsibilities: - Build and evolve the platform: Design, build and run shared AWS and Kubernetes capabilities that support Exerp workloads globally - Create reusable, opinionated platform patterns for account foundations, networking, identity, compute, storage, deployment and observability - Use Terraform, Helm, Argo CD and related automation to make infrastructure and application delivery repeatable, reviewable and recoverable - Improve our internal developer platform and service catalogue (including Port) so teams can find, provision and run what they need through clear self-service paths - Assess new technologies pragmatically, weighing customer value, operational risk, security, cost and long-term maintainability Improve reliability and operational maturity: - Define and improve SLOs, operational readiness, resilience, disaster recovery and capacity planning for platform services - Build meaningful observability with Grafana Cloud, Elastic Cloud and AWS-native tooling, using well-designed logs, metrics, traces and alerts - Take part in incident response and problem management, helping teams restore service quickly and turning lessons into lasting improvements - Reduce toil by automating repetitive manual work and designing out recurring failure modes - Support safe change across a global estate through sound upgrade, migration, maintenance and rollback practices Enable product and engineering teams: - Work with developers, solution architects, security and operations colleagues to understand their needs and deliver practical platform solutions - Create clear paved roads for deploying, configuring, monitoring and changing hosted environments, with flexibility where workloads need it - Improve documentation, examples, templates and support processes so teams can solve common problems themselves - Coach colleagues on design decisions, troubleshooting and operational practice, and share knowledge to lift capability across engineering Protect the business and its customers: - Apply AWS Well-Architected principles and security best practice across identity, access, networking, data protection, resilience and operational control - Help maintain strong multi-account governance, including permission boundaries, SSO and OIDC integrations, policy controls and auditability - Contribute to cost management through better visibility, tagging, resource efficiency and cost-aware platform decisions - Treat customer impact, data privacy and security as first-class considerations in design and day-to-day operations Qualifications: We are looking for curious and empathetic people. We also love to hear from people who are motivated by meaningful work, resonate with our core values, have a positive outlook, are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive working in an ever-evolving and complex environment. Required qualifications for this role: - Significant experience designing, building and running production platforms or distributed systems on AWS - Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, ideally Amazon EKS, covering cluster lifecycle, scheduling, networking, storage, security and workload operations - Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, especially designing maintainable Terraform projects, modules and shared patterns at scale - Experience with GitOps and continuous delivery, ideally with Argo CD and Helm Nice to have: - Familiarity with Grafana Cloud, Elastic Cloud or similar platforms - Familiarity with Java-based production systems How you work: - You own outcomes, follow problems through and speak up early when priorities, risks or dependencies change - You enjoy troubleshooting complex systems and keep making progress when the answer isn’t obvious - You favour simple, automated, well-documented solutions over heroics and repeated manual fixes - You’re collaborative and service-minded, but can set sensible boundaries and help teams become self-sufficient - You share knowledge through design discussions, reviews, documentation, mentoring and constructive challenge - You work well independently in a global organisation and communicate confidently in written and spoken English ## Skills ### Required - AWS - Kubernetes - Terraform - Helm - Argo CD - GitOps - Infrastructure as Code ### Nice to have - Grafana Cloud - Elastic Cloud - Java --- Source: [Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Xplor/744000159652925-senior-cloud-platform-engineer?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)