Senior Enterprise Technology Engineer

Entity: Technology Job Family Group: IT&S Group Job Description: Who we are About bp/team bp technology is the central organization for all software and platform development. We build all the technology that powers bp’s businesses, from upstream energy production to downstream energy delivery to our customers. We have a variety of teams depending on your areas of interest, including infrastructure and backend services through to customer-facing web and native applications. We encourage our teams to adapt quickly by using native AWS and Azure services, including serverless, and enable them to pick the best technology for a given problem. This is meant to empower our software and platform engineers while allowing them to learn and develop themselves. Let me tell you about the role The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for engineering, enhancing, and operating bp’s AWS Platform, ensuring it remains secure, reliable, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with bp’s cloud strategy. Working as a senior member of the AWS Platform Engineering team, this role delivers the technical capabilities that enable application teams across bp to consume AWS safely and efficiently. The role focuses on building reusable platform capabilities, improving existing services, removing technical debt, and continuously modernising the platform to take advantage of evolving AWS capabilities. The Senior Cloud Engineer works closely with the AWS Platform Architect, Technical Delivery Lead, Platform Engineering teams, and peer technology services to translate architectural direction into practical, production-ready engineering outcomes. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep AWS expertise, strong software engineering practices, and the ability to solve complex technical challenges across the breadth of the AWS platform. The role does not have line management responsibility but provides technical leadership, mentoring, and engineering expertise within the squad. The role requires a strong platform approach - building reusable capabilities that can support many application teams rather than delivering one-off solution. What you will deliver Engineer and enhance the AWS Platform Design, develop, automate, and operate core AWS platform capabilities. Create reusable services and automation that simplify cloud adoption for application teams. Deliver improvements that strengthen security, reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and developer experience. Collaborate with engineers and architects to deliver platform roadmap initiatives. Turn architectural designs into practical, production-ready solutions. Contribute to continuous improvement of platform engineering practices. Modernise the platform and reduce technical debt * Identify, prioritise, and remediate technical debt across AWS Platform services. * Modernise existing capabilities to align with AWS standard processes and current service offerings. * Continuously evaluate opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve platform capabilities. * Ensure the AWS Platform remains current with evolving AWS services, features, and recommended architectures. * Retire legacy approaches and introduce improved patterns where they deliver better security, resilience, or operational outcomes. AWS platform engineering * Develop and maintain AWS Platform capabilities across areas including: * AWS Organizations and account governance * Identity and access management * Networking and connectivity * Security controls and governance * Compute and container platforms * Observability and operational tooling * Automation and developer enablement * Build secure-by-default platform services that meet enterprise requirements. * Create reusable Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns. * Improve platform reliability through engineering excellence, automation, and operational improvements. Software engineering and automation * Develop automation and platform tooling using **Python** and **AWS CloudFormation**. * Build maintainable, reusable, and testable code following modern software engineering practices. * Create automated solutions that reduce manual operational effort and improve consistency. * Give to CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, and engineering standards. * Use source control, code review, and deployment automation practices to maintain high-quality platform engineering. Security, governance, and operational excellence * Implement secure cloud engineering practices across AWS Platform services. * Embed security controls, compliance requirements, and governance principles into platform capabilities. * Support operational perfection through monitoring, observability, automation, and continuous improvement. * Troubleshoot sophisticated technical issues across AWS services and platform components. * Give to incident management, root cause analysis, and preventative improvements. * Ensure platform capabilities meet reliability and resilience expectations. AI and innovation * Support