Sr. Platform Architect

Sr. Platform Engineer – AWS | Shell Recharge Solutions

At Shell Recharge Solutions , we are looking for candidates who want to be a part of something bigger than themselves – passionate, purpose-driven individuals who believe having a career means making a meaningful impact on our business and the world. We believe in creating and doing ‘the right thing’ through responsible and sustainable EV deployment. We are looking for the innovative, driven to find a solution in a complex and dynamically evolving marketplace and look at “no” as just a challenge to find the next “yes”.

Shell Recharge Solutions is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer – AWS!

Shell Recharge Solutions is looking for a Platform Engineer to join our engineering team in leading and owning the platform design for a distributed multi-technology platform. This platform is central to an eMobility ecosystem that consists of massive worldwide cloud infrastructure, Electric Vehicle Chargers (L2 and DCFC), Battery Energy Storage systems, integration with Energy Utilities, Renewable Energy, and the hardware/software to facilitate administration, predictive management, and communication between sites and facilities.

What you’ll do:

• Act as the primary AWS SME for operations and managed services engagements.

• Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, and optimizing AWS infrastructure for scalability, performance, and security for SaaS platform.

• Ensure cost optimization, governance, and compliance of AWS resources aligned with business objectives.

• Ensure High Availability, Disaster recovery and backup mechanisms.

• Lead incident, problem, and change management for AWS environments, ensuring compliance with ITIL standards.

• Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and operational efficiency using DevOps and remediation tools.

• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Application teams for seamless delivery of services.

• Develop advanced operational documentation, runbooks, and best practices for cloud support teams.

• Stay updated with evolving AWS services and recommend enterprise adoption strategies.

What We’re Looking For:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience required.

• 10+ years of experience designing and shipping cloud services products.

• 3+ years of experience driving and managing technical and architectural dependencies on AWS cloud.

• 5+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud services.

• A firm understanding of system architecture, cloud computing, PaaS/SaaS design principles, micro services, and containers. AWS, Docker, Kubernetes experience strongly preferred.

• Proven system level design contribution to a current “Live” (in production / under daily high load) multi-region SaaS or PaaS offering.

• Experience with DevOps/SRE models and a scrum/agile methodology.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of IT experience with at least 3+ years in AWS cloud operations, architecture, and engineering.

• Prior experience with high available SaaS platform (mandatory) preferably from ecommerce or B2C SaaS platform.

• Strong expertise in AWS services – EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, CloudFront, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS/ECS, Transit Gateway.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible).

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools and DevOps practices (Code Pipeline, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions).

• In-depth understanding of AWS security best practices, governance, and regulatory compliance frameworks (CIS, ISO, PCI etc.).

• Experience in AWS cost optimization (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances) and governance frameworks.

• Have an experience developing solutions using infrastructure orchestration tools (SSM, automation account, ansible, etc.).

• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with IoT devices.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Security Specialty.

What We Offer:

• A work environment that allows you to work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in this emerging industry.

• The ability to make a difference in a world that needs our technology to help reduce carbon emissions and enable a more sustainable energy future through the use of electric vehicle charging software, services and infrastructure.

• The freedom to learn, suggest, and implement innovative new ideas applied to our systems, processes, programs and technologies.

• Daily ownership of your role in a challenging, high-growth environment.

• A casual work environment and culture that support work life ‘fit’, enabling you to fit life into your work and work into your life, i.e. flexible scheduling, virtualization options, and a generous holiday package.

• Competitive pay and benefits programs designed to enable you to thrive inside and outside of work.

• Participation in Shell Recharge Solutions’ performance and rewards bonus program.