Thomson Keene
Prefect Platform Engineer
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Platform Engineer (AWS, Terraform & Workflow Orchestration) | London | Contract
We're partnering with a leading commodities trading firm who are seeking an experienced Prefect Platform Engineer to work on a critical workflow orchestration platform that supports key business processes across the organisation.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on modernising and simplifying an established platform estate. You'll work closely with Cloud, Platform and Software Engineering teams to improve scalability, automation and operational efficiency while helping define the platform's long-term ownership model.
The successful candidate will play a key role in re-platforming infrastructure, driving Infrastructure-as-Code adoption, enhancing observability, and evaluating the future direction of the platform. It's a rare opportunity to combine deep technical delivery with architectural influence and stakeholder engagement.
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You'll be joining a highly capable engineering environment where you'll have significant autonomy and visibility, working alongside platform specialists, cloud engineers and developers to deliver lasting improvements to a business-critical service.
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Required skills:
- Proven experience administering and developing Prefect v3 in production environments, including flows, deployments, work pools and platform operations.
- Strong AWS infrastructure expertise, with hands-on experience across ECS, IAM, RDS and ECR.
- Advanced Terraform skills and experience extending and improving existing Infrastructure-as-Code estates.
- Experience building and operating containerised platforms, worker architectures and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to assess platform strategies and make recommendations around SaaS adoption, migrations and operating models.
- Strong communication skills, capable of producing high-quality technical documentation and engaging effectively with both engineering and business stakeholders.
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