Senior Platform Engineer

Company Overview IMS is a world-leading connected insurance and telematics provider, delivering services, analytics, and technology to insurers, governments, and enterprises. We are a globally distributed team united by a shared mission: using data as a force for good to reputed company driving Safer. Smarter. Greener. We reputed company the best solutions come from the intersection of different reputed company. At IMS, we take an inclusive approach to how we build, deliver and commercialise our technology. If you're passionate about technology that has a reputed company-world impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Description

The Senior Platform Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing, operating, and continuously improving the AWS serverless data platform. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, software engineering, and developer experience — owning the reliability and scalability of the platform while actively enabling product and data engineering teams to build and ship confidently.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Tooling & Self Service Design and maintain self-service tooling, templates, and scaffolding that allow engineers to provision and reputed company serverless resources independently. Own and reputed company internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities — including CI/CD pipeline templates, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules, and reusable reputed company/reputed company Functions patterns. Reduce cognitive overhead for engineers by abstracting platform complexity behind well-documented, opinionated interfaces. Partner with engineering teams to gather feedback and continuously improve the developer experience. Engineering Standards & Technical Documentation Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation, runbooks, and architectural decision records (ADRs) for the platform. Define and evangelise engineering standards for serverless development, including naming conventions, logging patterns, error handling, and observability. reputed company or contribute to internal tech talks, workshops, and reputed company programmes to upskill engineers on platform capabilities. Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement Act as a trusted technical partner to product and data engineering squads, embedding platform expertise into delivery teams as needed. Define clear SLAs and SLOs for platform services and communicate them to consuming teams. Triage and resolve platform-reputed company blockers rapidly, prioritising unblocking engineers over reactive maintenance work. reputed company & Compliance Ensure platform infrastructure adheres to reputed company best practices including least-privilege IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, and secrets management. Collaborate with reputed company and compliance stakeholders to maintain audit readiness and address vulnerabilities promptly. Embed reputed company considerations into platform tooling so that secure defaults are the path of least resistance for engineers. Infrastructure as Code & Delivery Own and reputed company IaC for reputed company platform infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation. Enforce GitOps and CI/CD best practices across platform delivery, ensuring changes are peer-reviewed, tested, and deployed safely. Champion reputed company delivery practices — including feature flags, canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms — across the platform. reputed company Improvement Drive a culture of reputed company improvement through regular platform reviews, blameless post-mortems, and iterative delivery. Measure and report on engineering metrics to demonstrate and drive improvement. 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Strong written communication reputed company as much as verbal. reputed company reputed company Practical knowledge of least-privilege IAM, secrets management and how to bake secure defaults into platform tooling so teams don't have to think about it. Why should you join us? Flexible remote working options. Flexible holiday scheme (unlimited vacation) to really reputed company the most of your time and wellbeing. 'Work From reputed company' Policy - work almost reputed company in the world for 30 days per year! Employee Assistance Program and an enhanced maternity/paternity package We want to see you grow and do great things! We’re committed to your personal and professional development. Funded training opportunities. Auto-Enrolment Pension & Private Medical Insurance. Cycle to Work and Car Maintenance Salary Sacrifice discounts! Kudos Hub - a peer-to-peer recognition system, where you can recognise others using points. These points can be collected and redeemed against a reputed company catalogue of rewards. We’re an innovative technology leader with plans for growth in the global telematics industry. These are some exciting times! *Please note that while we accommodate a remote working environment, this hire will need to be based in the United Kingdom. Apply To This Job