Platform engineer in cloud

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to help us maintain, optimise and grow our cloud platform by driving and delivering initiatives covering low-level cloud architecture, developer experience and tooling, SRE and cloud security. This is a high-impact, hands-on technical role where you’ll work within a team of talented platform & cloud engineers to improve scalability, reliability, developer experience and time-to-market for our product teams. You’ll combine your experience operating large systems in the cloud with a passion for developer experience and streamlining the road to production.

• Lead complex platform initiatives from concept through to production, driving alignment, unblocking dependencies, and ensuring timely delivery of solid, reliable platform components that form the foundation of our products.
• Maintain and operate a global, high availability infrastructure platform spread across 5 regions with round-the-clock usage, supporting our customer success and product development teams to deliver value to our customers. You will also participate in out-of-hours on-call rotas.
• Champion engineering best practices, including CI/CD, SRE, networking and cloud security — raising the overall bar for quality and reliability.
• Collaborate and consult with other engineering teams to help guide and influence their cloud architecture and usage of the platform, ensuring their road to production is smooth and pain-free.
• Mentor and develop engineers, growing their design and architectural thinking, technical capabilities, and ability to operate at scale.
• Research, evaluate, and drive adoption of new tools, frameworks, or architectural patterns that improve developer experience, platform resilience, and delivery velocity.

• You’re a high-impact platform engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure and tooling problems in the cloud. You care deeply about creating scalable, maintainable, and efficient platform solutions that provide a solid and delightful foundation for other teams to build upon.
• You have a deep experience of operating Kubernetes workloads at scale and maintaining a secure, well-governed cloud environment. You are a strong advocate for clear, maintainable and well-tested IaC configurations that make changes safe and easy.
• You’re collaborative and approachable; as much at home sharing your knowledge and experience with team-mates or advising platform users as you are being knee-deep in a gnarly helm chart squashing bugs.
• You have your finger on the pulse; both in terms of industry best-practices and technologies and also in how our users interact with our platform - identifying pain-points and needs that can be solved to improve the developer experience.
• You appreciate the value of a paved road in providing a reliable platform, but also know when rigidity needs to be avoided for the benefit of the user.
• You strive to automate all the things, reducing manual toil and opportunity for human error.
• You look forward to collaborating with your team and others in-person 2 days a week in our London office.
• Experience designing, building & operating distributed AWS cloud infrastructure, including (but not limited to) networking, IAM, observability & monitoring, security & governance, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform best practices alongside GitOps deployment setups
• Proven ability to lead initiatives — from discovery through delivery, solving problems and finding the best solutions that balance efficiency and ease of use.
• Experience modernising legacy systems and simplifying architecture, reducing cognitive load and making systems easier to reason about, maintain, and evolve over time.

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Generous enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Optical benefits
• 15% combined employee/employer contributions
• Subsidized gym membership
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations