Platform Engineer

Job Title

Senior Platform Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with deep Akamai expertise to own IG's edge delivery estate and change how it's run.

Today, much of our Akamai configuration is managed by hand through Control Center. Your mandate is to move it into code: Terraform modules, version-controlled rule trees, and GitLab pipelines with the automated checks and guardrails that let application teams request and ship their own edge changes safely. You'll be the expert other engineers come to, and the person who steadily reduces how often they need to.

The Platform Team owns the infrastructure and automation platform underpinning IG's global trading operations – cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, GitLab CI/CD, and self-service capabilities that help development teams move faster with greater confidence. Edge delivery sits at the very front of that stack: every customer session, trade, and API call reaches IG through it, across every region we operate in and under latency-sensitive conditions.

You'll work hands-on with Property Manager and Akamai's rule tree model, Edge DNS and traffic management, edge security controls, and certificate lifecycle – from routine property changes through to incident diagnosis and long-term modernisation of the estate. If you care about content delivery and edge infrastructure, and want your work to have direct commercial and customer impact, we'd welcome your application.

Automate the estate and enable self-service

Own edge delivery and routing

Secure and govern the edge

Diagnose, partner, and share

Experience level: 5+ years in CDN and edge delivery engineering, with deep hands-on Akamai expertise and a strong infrastructure-as-code background.

You troubleshoot systematically, tracing an issue from DNS resolution through edge routing, caching, and origin behaviour rather than reacting to surface-level symptoms. You've modernised a CDN estate before – cleaning up legacy properties, redirect chains, and routing rules without destabilising high-traffic, latency-sensitive applications.

The automation you build gets used. Whether it's Terraform modules, API-driven pipelines, or self-service workflows, it's robust, well-documented, and genuinely adopted by the teams who depend on it – because you designed it around how they actually work, and put guardrails in place that make the safe path the easy one.

Security and compliance aren't an afterthought for you. You've tuned WAF rules, managed certificate lifecycle, and hardened edge configuration, and you understand how choices made at the edge shape risk. You're equally comfortable owning a single complex property change and setting the routing and redirection strategy for an entire domain estate – and you're methodical enough to balance immediate operational demands against longer-term platform quality.

IG is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof.

We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Your growth fuels our success! Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.

Learn more about the Perks here!

Join us for this exciting journey. Apply now!

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