Senior Enterprise Technology Engineer

Entity:
Technology
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Job Description:
Who we are
Fuels & Low Carbon Technology (F&LCT) is a global organization of more than 300 technologists, scientists, and engineers who develop groundbreaking solutions across bp’s Fuels, Refining, Bioenergy, and Hydrogen businesses. The organization also supports bp’s wider Technology function through innovation management, modelling, digital science, and academic research partnerships—providing the scientific and engineering foundation that enables bp’s low carbon and operational ambitions.
Within F&LCT, the Bioenergy & Hydrogen Technology (B&HT) team focuses on crafting and scaling technologies that unlock bp’s low carbon growth. The team advances pathways across bioenergy, biogas, SAF, hydrogen, and novel feedstocks, while working closely with bp businesses to ensure solutions meet real operational and commercial needs. B&HT plays a central role in defining bp’s technology direction for today’s energy needs as well as the energy transition by driving innovation from early-stage concepts through deployment ready solutions.
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 bp’s ambition to adopt AI by seeing opportunities to apply AI capabilities within the AWS Platform.
* Evaluate and adopt AI-enabled tooling that improves engineering productivity, automation, operational insight, and developer experience.
* Prototype and pilot new AWS capabilities, including emerging AI services, to assess their suitability for enterprise adoption.
* Maintain hands-on technical knowledge of evolving AWS services and cloud engineering practices.
* Use practical implementation experience to inform platform improvements and technical decisions.
Teamwork and stakeholder engagement
* Work closely with the AWS Platform Architect to deliver the platform roadmap and architectural vision.
* Collaborate with Technical Delivery Leads, Cloud Engineers, and wider Platform teams to deliver outcomes.
* Partner with peer services including Connectivity, Identity, Security, and Enterprise Architecture.
* Work with application teams to understand requirements and enable successful adoption of AWS capabilities.
* Provide technical guidance and support to teams consuming AWS Platform services.
* Promote consistent engineering practices across the AWS community.
What you will need to be successful
Technical skills and experience
* Extensive hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise-scale AWS environments.
* Strong software engineering skills with significant experience developing automation and platform capabilities using **Python** and **AWS CloudFormation**.
* Experience building reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and operational tooling.
* Strong understanding of AWS services including:
* IAM and identity services
* AWS Organizations and governance
* Networking
* Security services
* Compute platforms
* Containers
* Monitoring and observability
* Experience designing and operating secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platforms.
* Strong fixing and problem-solving skills across sophisticated cloud environments.
* Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevSecOps practices.
* Experience reducing technical debt and modernising cloud platforms.
* Proven ability to evaluate, pilot, and adopt new AWS services through practical implementation experience.
Leadership and behavioural skills
* Strong ability to influence and collaborate across technical teams.
* Comfortable working in a matrix organisation with multiple customers.
* Able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and a continuous improvement approach.
* Passionate about engineering perfection and building high-quality platform capabilities.
* Able to balance delivery priorities, operational requirements, and long-term platform health.
* Provides technical leadership and mentoring within the engineering squad without requiring formal line management responsibility.
Skills that set you apart
* Experience building and operating enterprise cloud platforms at significant scale.
* Experience with platform engineering approaches and internal developer platforms.
* Experience creating reusable cloud services consumed by multiple application teams.
* AWS professional-level certification.
* Experience working in regulated or highly governed environments.
* Experience adopting AI-assisted engineering practices or integrating AI capabilities into cloud platforms.
* Demonstrated curiosity and passion for experimenti