Platform Engineer

Oak Furnitureland is a beloved British furniture retailer with a passion for helping people create their dream homes. We are committed to exceptional quality and stylish furniture at accessible prices. As we continue to grow and evolve, we are building an AI-native engineering team to modernise the large, established platform behind our ecommerce site and internal systems. We are seeking a talented Platform Engineer to join our engineering team in our head office in Swindon. We can offer hybrid working with 2 days a week in the office and 3 days working from home.

The Platform Engineer will design, build, run and continually improve the cloud platform, build pipelines and tooling that our website, our in-house ERP application (Acorn) and our data services depend on.

This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who enjoys making other engineers more productive. You will own the reliability, security and cost of our AWS-based platform, automate as much as possible through Infrastructure as Code, and work closely with our developers to give them a fast, safe and consistent path from code to production.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Platform & Infrastructure:

• Design, deploy and manage AWS infrastructure across multiple regions, including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Route 53 and load balancing.
• Operate and support our Aurora MySQL estate, including Global Database replication, backups, patching and failover testing.
• Maintain hybrid connectivity between AWS and our offices, including site-to-site VPNs and routing.

Infrastructure As Code & Configuration Management

• Define and manage infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Build and maintain machine images and server configuration using Packer and SaltStack.
• Keep environments consistent, repeatable and version-controlled.

CI/CD & Developer Enablement

• Build, maintain and...

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