Platform Engineer, AWS

🏷️Title: Platform Engineer, AWS

👫Department: Engineering

📍Location: UK or Europe, Remote

About Block Labs

Block Labs is a leading force in the Web3 space, incubating, investing in, and accelerating top-tier fintech, crypto and iGaming projects. With a mission to shape the future of decentralized technology, we partner with visionary startups to raise funding, refine product-market fit, and grow their audiences. Our diverse team drives innovation, using deep industry expertise and an extensive network to empower the next wave of blockchain-driven companies. At Block Labs, we’re passionate about turning bold ideas into breakthrough success.

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to join our Engineering team!

About The Role

As a Platform Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain a highly scalable, secure, and automated platform on AWS. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will ensure the platform supports efficient application delivery and aligns with business objectives. This role focuses on the continuous improvement of our cloud infrastructure and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a secure, resilient, and scalable AWS platform to support business-critical applications.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and automation frameworks to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and product teams to align platform capabilities with business requirements.
• Ensure the platform meets the highest security standards while optimizing performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness across all infrastructure.
• Support migrations from other platforms to AWS, ensuring seamless transitions and minimal downtime.
• Monitor and troubleshoot platform performance issues, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Research and implement new AWS services and emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident resolution to ensure platform reliability and uptime.
• Document platform configurations, workflows, and best practices to support operational excellence.
  
  

About You

• You have 3+ years of experience in cloud engineering or platform engineering roles, with a strong focus on AWS.
• You have hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• You are familiar with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native architecture.
• You have expertise in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and alerting frameworks.
• You are passionate about building platforms that improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
• You have a strong command of both spoken and written English.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is an advantage.
• Experience in fintech, DeFi, or iGaming is a nice-to-have.