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Lead Platform Engineer - AWS

Tracsis United Kingdom / Leeds, United KingdomRemoteFull Time

Key Notes

Technical leadership owns strategy and architecture for Tracsis’s AWS-based platform, spanning Amazon EKS, Istio, ArgoCD, Terraform, Crossplane, GitLab CI/CD, production reliability and developer self-service. The remote role includes visits to Leeds and combines incident ownership, engineering mentorship, security, observability, automation and FinOps across shared platform services.

What You'll Work On

  • Own technical strategy and architecture for Tracsis’s AWS-based platform and its cloud-native capabilities.
  • Drive incident management, reliability, observability and on-call production ownership across shared platform services.
  • Build secure, observable and scalable self-service platform capabilities for development teams.
  • Mentor engineers, improve developer experience and automate recurring platform work while managing cloud cost.

Why This Role Matters

  • Developers using Tracsis’s AWS platform can deploy through self-service capabilities and automated GitOps workflows, reducing the manual steps involved in delivering cloud-native services.
  • Production incidents on the AWS platform are investigated through observability tools and on-call ownership, allowing faults to be diagnosed and recovery work coordinated within the platform team.

What They Are Looking For

  • Experience: Relevant experience includes 5–8+ years in Platform Engineering, SRE or DevOps roles.
  • Technical: Strong production experience with Amazon EKS, Istio service mesh and GitOps is sought.
  • Technical: Hands-on Terraform, Crossplane, GitLab CI/CD, Linux and at least one of Python, Go, Java or C# are sought.
  • Technical: Self-service platform experience at scale, Vault and IAM security, Grafana-stack observability and FinOps are sought.
  • Experience: Comfort with on-call work and production ownership is sought.
  • Preferred: Exposure to GKE or Azure is explicitly described as a plus.

Tracsis

3 open jobs

Tracsis provides software and services for rail and traffic operations, spanning timetable planning, remote condition monitoring, delay attribution and smart ticketing, alongside event transport planning and traffic surveys. The UK-listed group serves railways and road authorities in Europe and North America.

Sector
Mobility Software & Intelligence
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Founded
2004
Operating Regions
Europe, North America
Employees
501-1,000

Frequently Asked Questions

  • This role is Remote.

  • Yes, this is a Full-time position.

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