Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview

Job Title:

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

IG Group (LSEG: IGG) is a leading global fintech company, established in 1974 and headquartered in London. As an innovative member of the FTSE 100, IG Group provides dynamic online trading platforms and a robust educational ecosystem, empowering ambitious individuals worldwide in their pursuit of financial freedom. With operations spanning eighteen countries across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North America, IG Group offers clients access to approximately 19,000 financial markets, including shares, forex, indices, commodities and crypto.

IG is at a pivotal moment. We are moving with real pace and ambition -- rethinking how we serve clients, how we operate, and how we use technology to do both better. For people who want to be part of building something, rather than maintaining it, this is an unusually good time to join.

You'll be joining a small, close-knit Data platform engineering team of three to five engineers. We re a team that takes quality seriously, looks out for each other, and gets things done without a lot of ceremony. Everyone brings something different across cloud infrastructure, data platform, and developer tooling and we rely on that range to solve problems well.

We work across time zones with colleagues in Bengaluru and Kraków, so clear communication and good async habits matter. You won t be siloed into a narrow lane in a team of this size, everyone gets exposure to the breadth of what we do, and everyone s opinion on how we do it counts.

• Design and architect scalable cloud infrastructure, developing IaC solutions using Terraform and standardisation initiatives
• Build, optimise, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, supporting Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops  best practices across the organisation
• Operate and evolve GCP data platform services - Big Query, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub - in close collaboration with data and ML engineering teams
• Support IAM, service account design, and security posture across the platform, enforcing least-privilege principles
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for platform issues, and drive improvements to reduce recurrence
• Participate in an on-call rota as the platform s operational coverage matures
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our IDP - adding catalog entries, improving scaffolder templates, and keeping Tech Docs accurate
• Work with data engineering and ML engineering teams to onboard their services and pipelines into the catalog, ensuring ownership and metadata are correctly represented
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools - including Claude Code - as part of your daily workflow for infrastructure authoring, code review, and documentation
• Share effective AI patterns and prompting approaches with the team, helping build a culture of thoughtful, safe AI-augmented engineering

You ll need solid experience in:

• Cloud Infrastructure &
  
  Experience:
  
  4+ years