Platform Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote - UK
55,000 - 65,000 £ per year
About Amiqus

Amiqus is the UK’s most trusted compliance and onboarding platform, enabling simple, fast and secure access to products and services online. Whether moving home, changing jobs or looking for professional help, our software makes it easy for everyone involved.

We’re trusted by Governments, NHS, Banks and 600+ regulated organisations across sectors in the UK to help people get to work on the things that matter, faster.
Our benefits
  • Salary range of £55k - £65k

  • Vitality private health cover & insurance benefits 

  • 34 days annual leave

  • 5% matched pension contribution

  • 12 paid personal development days annually with dedicated budget

  • Hybrid working valuing outcomes over in-person hours

About the role

This role will be a crucial figure within our growing engineering function. This has an integral role in our growth plan and will help shape the future of our infrastructure, as well as our build, deployment, and monitoring processes. You will have the autonomy to improve the day-to-day operation of a mature, well-tested application regularly used by thousands of people. The successful candidate will work closely with our Platform Team Manager and existing platform engineers to solve challenges and implement solutions.

Key responsibilities

Main responsibilities include:

  • Build, improve and maintain infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, Python and related tools

  • Contribute to secure, reliable CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes across environments

  • Work with senior engineers to support infrastructure design and decision-making

  • Take responsibility for delivering your work, raising blockers early and asking questions when needed

  • Proactively identify and resolve issues, and participate in debugging and performance improvements

  • Collaborate with your team to improve tooling and platform reliability

  • Contribute to documentation, observability and automation efforts to improve platform quality

  • Stay informed about the tools and technologies we use, and be open to learning and applying new ones

  • Support the team in achieving shared goals and maintaining a strong engineering culture

Our platform tech: 

  • AWS: ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Opensearch, Elasticache, Secrets Manager

  • Infrastructure: Terraform for infrastructure as code, Docker for containerisation

  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions for automated builds and deployments

  • Scripting: Python and shell for tools and automation

  • Monitoring & Observability: Datadog and AWS CloudWatch

  • Application stack: Laravel (PHP) and VueJS

About you

Talented people make Amiqus and staying true to our culture is important as we develop and grow. Most importantly, this role will be filled by someone who shares our values and work ethic.

In addition, we are looking for the following:

  • You’re confident working with AWS, Terraform, and container-based infrastructure, and know when to ask for input

  • You take ownership of your work and deliver consistently with minimal supervision

  • You’re naturally curious and enjoy learning how things work under the hood

  • You’re thoughtful about solving problems and take pride in writing clean, maintainable infrastructure code

  • You’re comfortable collaborating across teams, sharing your work, and contributing to shared decisions

  • You’re open to feedback and willing to admit when you don’t know something

  • You care about doing things well, not just getting them done

Interview process

We think it’s important to have an open and transparent interview process so that you have a clear understanding of what to expect.  The process might vary slightly depending on the role type or team you apply to join but it usually goes as follows:

  • Internal review of applications 

  • An initial chat about the role with our People & Engagement Manager 

  • A non-technical interview with the Team Manager and one other manager

  • A technical interview with the Team Manager and a senior engineer

  • Role offer

  • Onboarding welcome and process kick off with support across the team

Privacy policy

Diverse perspectives and people of all backgrounds are welcome at Amiqus. We recognise that building an inclusive workplace requires proactivity and commitment. We acknowledge our moral and legal responsibilities to promote equal opportunities and pursue equality in our work.

If we can make preparations to make sure you have a positive interview experience, please let us know.”

As you might expect, we care about privacy and we have a privacy policy specific for job applicants which explains how we handle your information and data.
Contact us
Reach us at work@amiqus.co
About us

Why Amiqus?

  • We’re recognised as one of the UK’s 50 fastest growing tech companies, ranked by Deloitte Fast50 and part of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty cohort for 2024. 

  • We’re scaling sustainably, backed by external investment on a 10x plan tracking to date from £5m+ ARR to £50m+ over the coming four years.

  • A collaborative, cross functional environment working in small teams with autonomy enabling you to deliver meaningful and impactful work, measurement and results focussed

  • We support hybrid remote and flexible working, ensuring you’ve the ability to deliver against your role mixing remote and in person time with your team, based in Edinburgh, and prospects.

  • 12 paid personal development days per year with additional personal budget and resources allocated to support your development and growth in your role.

  • Access our HQ in Edinburgh, quarterly team off sites and annual company wide events

  • We offer Vitality private health cover, insurance benefits, enhanced modern family leave 

  • 34 days annual leave

  • 5% matched pension contribution, share options and company-wide bonus scheme


About Amiqus:

Amiqus is the UK’s most trusted compliance and onboarding platform, enabling simple, secure access to products and services online. Whether moving home, changing jobs or looking for professional help, we help make the process fast and easy for everyone involved.

We’re trusted by the Government, NHS, Banks and over 600 organisations across sectors in the UK to help people get to work on the things that matter, faster.

What’s important to us? investing in our people, platform and partners to grow an aspirational workplace and a profitable business at scale, creating impact and affecting systems level change, across sectors, borders and economies.

We’re currently a team of 80+ people, spread across the UK and a few around Europe. We expect to double in terms of our scale and impact over the coming twelve months, so it’s an exciting time to join us and be a part of our growth.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!
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