Lead AWS Platform Engineer, PEXA
£80-85k
+ Performance-based incentives and Equity Plan for eligible employees
Online property settlement, tracking and insights
Be an early applicant
Online property settlement, tracking and insights
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£80-85k
+ Performance-based incentives and Equity Plan for eligible employees
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform property experiences.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll have strong experience building and operating production platforms in AWS, and be comfortable taking complex engineering work from design through to delivery
- Practical expertise in EKS, Kubernetes, AWS networking, identity and access management, storage, databases and managed messaging
- Strong Terraform experience, including modules, testing, version control and state management
- Experience with CI/CD and secure deployment practices
- A good understanding of high availability, backup, disaster recovery, failover and capacity management
- Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing and actionable alerting
- Knowledge of cloud security, vulnerability management and cost optimisation
- The judgement to balance delivery pace with reliability, security, supportability and cost
- Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working across technical teams
- Experience with platforms such as Kong or Unleash, or in financial services or another environment with demanding resilience and assurance requirements, would be useful
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a hands-on Lead AWS Platform Engineer to join the PEXA Go team. You’ll help shape the platform’s strategy and architecture, then turn that direction into reliable, secure and well-supported infrastructure
- This is a strong individual contributor role. You’ll work closely with platform and software engineers, product teams and operational colleagues, bringing the technical ownership and follow-through to keep platform work moving
- You’ll help deliver the platform roadmap, balancing planned improvements with operational needs. That means getting involved in the detail: designing and deploying infrastructure, managing upgrades, improving automation and resolving complex technical issues
- Turn platform strategy, architecture and standards into practical plans and working solutions
- Design, build and improve AWS services that support PEXA Go, including EKS, RDS and Aurora, MSK, S3, IAM and core networking
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, along with the pipelines that deploy it
- Plan and deliver platform upgrades, lifecycle work and technical improvements
- Improve platform reliability, resilience, security, observability and cost efficiency
- Work with engineering and operational teams on safe deployments, incident response and service readiness
- Share technical direction through design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting and practical collaboration
- Keep documentation, operating procedures and architecture records up to date
- Take part in the paid platform engineering on-call rota
- You’ll be self-sufficient and comfortable taking the lead on platform activity, while working as part of a wider team. You’ll bring a point of view on strategy and architecture, make sound technical decisions within agreed guardrails, and involve the right people when a decision has wider implications
- There are no direct reports currently. Your focus will be hands-on engineering, technical leadership and helping the platform capability develop as the team grows
Our take
Even as industries embrace the digital revolution, some practices lag behind. For example, property exchange and remortgaging still involve a host of paperwork and back-and-forth between parties. PEXA supplies an eConveyancing platform to automate and simplify these processes, improving accuracy and efficiency while reducing costs.
PEXA was founded in 2010 to bring automation to the Australian property market, before expanding to the UK. The company created its eConveyancing service from scratch, including developing the technology behind it, and can serve property exchange, purchase, development and more; though the PEXA UK division is currently focussed solely on its novel remortgaging solution, as the volume of UK remortgages is expected to rapidly escalate with growing interest rates.
PEXA has benefitted from the pandemic-instigated digital transformation, as well as the similarly fuelled property market boom, which allowed the company to grow rapidly in Australia. Having brought its platform to the much larger UK property market, the company has a chance to demonstrate the value of its digital property settlement solution to a new range of customers and the potential for massive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Company HQ
Civic Quarter, Leeds, UK
Leadership
Joe Peppe
(CEO)They joined PEXA UK in 2023 as CEO. Prior to this, they were the CEO of tmgroup, Managing Director at EDM Group, Business Development Director at RR Donnelley, and Senior Account Manager at Williams Leaf.
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