AWS Platform Engineer (Software Developer Background)

Job description

### About Baringa Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a *Great Place to Work* around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the *Financial Times* in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by *Forbes* for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. ## Our Solutions & AI Lab practice are looking for an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to join the team. Specifically, we're looking for an experienced software developer who wants to work in, or upskill into, platform engineering, supporting product, tooling and infrastructure builds. Our Solutions & AI Labs (SAIL) practice focuses on helping clients control their data, turn them into actionable insights and better leverage them through the use of Machine Learning solutions directly embedded into businesses processes. We support clients across a number of industries and offer deep expertise in AI, ML, Cloud and Managed Solutions. ### What you will be doing You will be using your experience to help build and maintain internal and client solutions. You would be also responsible to support the growth of our team, helping them to build the skills they need to solve our client’s challenges. Depending on the level, you can be a part of our leadership team, shaping the direction of the practice, growing the business and leading our people. Although we do not expect you to be an expert in all of the below activities at the same time, our team consists of people who can both work as advisors to our clients as well as being able to bring deep technical knowledge when needed. The profile of our typical engagements is a reflection of that. This role supports both internal B2B solutions and external client projects, delivered either as a managed service hosted by us or deployed on client infrastructure. Key responsibilities based on one of the below areas: **Developer Experience and the Internal Developer Platform** - **Developer Experience First:** Treat developers as your customers. Build the tools, services and self-service workflows that remove friction and accelerate delivery. - **Internal Developer Platform:** Contribute to and extend our IDP Terraform modules, CLIs and tooling, owning versioning and backwards compatibility. - **Production Backend Development:** Design, build, deploy and operate production APIs and services, from first commit through to live running. - **Release Engineering:** Work with feature flags and trunk-based development, and co-ordinate releases across teams. - **Delivery Leadership:** Break defined projects into features, user stories and tasks, map out deliverables, and coach junior engineers to do the same. **AI Platform Engineering** - **AI Gateway:** Build and operate a centralised, governed gateway for model access, routing, guardrails and cost control. - **Centralised AI Developer Platform:** Provide the shared services and paved roads that let product teams ship AI features safely. - **Agents, Knowledge and Memory:** Deliver Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents, knowledge bases and memory into production. - **Platform, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code** - **CI/CD Systems:** Design, develop and evolve modular CI/CD systems and reusable, extensible artifacts that other engineering teams build on. - **Infrastructure as Code:** Write and maintain IaC and automate application deployment using industry-standard tools and services. - **Resilience and Operations:** Design for high availability and disaster recovery, and define the monitoring, logging and alerting standards that go with it. **Security and Architecture** - **Security by Design:** Put security at the heart of every module you write and every architecture you design, with policies planned, enforced and compliant with industry standards. - **Solution Design:** Translate functional and non-functional requirements into simple, robust architectures that comply with organisational strategy and standards. ### Your skills and experience We’re looking for experienced engineers who can support and bridge the gap between the developers and consultancy teams in which solve our clients most complex issues and bring their solutions to life. - You are a **‘lifelong learner’**, excited by solving complex client problems and committed to developing your own skills and the team around you. - You lead from the front, **owning** and **running** engagements, **interacting** with stakeholders and making recommendations which shape the project. - You have **5-7 years** of hands on AWS delivery across Platform Engineering, Solution Design and Cloud Architecture, and separately **5-7 years** as a working **software developer** in **Python, Go or Java.** This is a developer-first platform role: we are looking for engineers who write and ship software, not only engineers who configure it. You will have a **mix of technical skills** including some of the below: - Deep, **hands on development experience** in at least one backend language: Python, Go or Java, working as a backend developer rather than writing automation scripts and pipeline glue. - You have designed, built and **deployed production APIs**and services, and supported them once live. You can talk us through something you shipped, the trade-offs you made and what broke. - Hands on experience building and maintaining Internal Developer Platforms: contributing to the platform Terraform, CLI and tooling, and managing versioning and releases. - Comfortable with feature flags and trunk-based development, and happy to co-ordinate releases across teams. - Ability to design, build and evolve modular CI/CD templates and Infrastructure as Code that centralise governance and raise the quality bar for development teams. - Security by default in the modules you create and the architectures you design, alongside high availability, disaster recovery and monitoring. - Interest in, or experience of, building AI platform capability: AI gateways, centralised AI developer platforms, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents, knowledge bases and memory. - Able to define standards and defend your proposals when challenged by other architecture and security teams. ## What a career at Baringa will give you ### Putting People First. ### Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include: - Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service. - Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave. - Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us. - Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice. - Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success. ### Diversity and Inclusion We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. ### An award-winning workplace You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. [Click here](https://www.baringa.com/en/impact/awards/) to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. ### Using business as a force for good. We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve. We