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)
• ✅ 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 Helm, 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