Senior Platform Engineering Technical Lead

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements

• We have a minimum of 5 years experience working on customer-facing cloud platforms.
• We have strong hands-on expertise with AWS across multiple accounts and regions, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
• We have proven experience with both AWS CDK/CloudFormation and OpenTofu, including troubleshooting stack failures, rollbacks, and configuration drift.
• We have experience building or operating serverless AWS architectures, particularly for production-scale data processing workloads.
• We have experience designing and supporting multi-region, highly available platforms, including disaster recovery planning and testing.
• We have a strong understanding of AWS IAM, including roles, trust policies, and GitHub Actions OIDC federation.
• We have professional development experience in Python.
• We have excellent code review capabilities, providing pragmatic and constructive technical feedback.
• We have demonstrated passion for continuous improvement, including developer experience, automation, AI-assisted engineering, and platform tooling.
• We have experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction.
• Prior people management experience is highly desirable, although we welcome applications from exceptional senior engineers ready to take the next step into leadership.
• We have experience with Okta or similar identity and access management platforms.
• We have familiarity with Django and/or FastAPI.
• We have experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Sentry Cloud, Dynatrace, or similar platforms.
• We have experience working with distributed engineering teams across multiple geographies.

Responsibilities

• We own the GRiD cloud platform end-to-end, including resilience, disaster recovery, multi-region architecture, and operational readiness.
• We act as the senior escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges, including permissions, deployment failures, and platform stability issues.
• We guide the transition from GRiD to GRiD 2, collaborating with the Catastrophe and Risk Solutions teams who develop Synergy Studio (VSS), the platform on which GRiD 2 is being built, to ensure a successful migration.
• We shape platform strategy and governance, providing guidance on architecture, tooling, and engineering best practices across AWS CDK and OpenTofu environments.
• We partner regularly with the Information Risk Officer to identify, prioritise, and remediate platform vulnerabilities.
• We remain actively involved in engineering work through code reviews, technical problem solving, and hands-on development when required.
• We drive innovation through prototyping, self-service infrastructure, developer tooling improvements, and AI-assisted development initiatives.
• We support agile delivery activities and contribute to a shared business-hours support rota.
• We lead, mentor, and develop a distributed team of infrastructure engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development.

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• Lambda
• Cloud
• Django
• Dynatrace
• FastAPI
• GitHub
• IAM
• IaaS
• Support
• PaaS
• Python
• Sentry
• Serverless
• DevOps

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We are partnering directly with Verisk Analytics to hire for this hands-on technical leadership role. We lead a distributed infrastructure team across the UK and India and work closely with engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions. The role is open for full remote within the UK, with a preference for candidates who can commute to Bath weekly under our hybrid policy of 3 days per week in the office. You will provide technical direction across two business units with a primary focus on Maplecrofts AWS-based platforms, including GRiD, DataX, and GRiD 2. We operate within a modern cloud ecosystem leveraging AWS, AWS CDK, OpenTofu, ECS Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, Batch, Step Functions, GitHub, and Okta. This is an opportunity to influence the future of industry-leading risk analytics platforms, shape engineering strategy, lead talented engineers, and contribute to the next generation of Maplecrofts products in a collaborative, innovation-focused environment.

last updated 34 week of 2026