Senior Platform Engineer

Your Role:
Senior Platform Engineer

Join our Platform team and help shape the systems that power Global’s technology platforms. Working across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and application hosting environments, you’ll develop and improve scalable, reliable solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation.

• Platform Engineering & Automation: Support, maintain, and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Git Hub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform.
• Technical Leadership & Best Practice: Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices across security, performance, maintainability, and testing. Contribute to technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
• Operational Excellence &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Maintain reliable production environments, improve observability and monitoring systems, and respond to proactive and reactive support alerts. Work collaboratively across the Technology department while mentoring and supporting other engineers.

• Think Big: Work across a broad range of business-critical systems and technologies that have real impact across Global.
• Own It: Take responsibility for improving platform reliability, automation, and deployment processes in a modern engineering environment.
• Keep it Simple: Solve complex technical challenges using industry-standard tooling and scalable engineering practices.
• Better Together: Be part of a collaborative team culture that values code reviews, pair programming, continuous integration, learning, and knowledge sharing.

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Built a strong understanding of our existing build and deployment architecture
• Contributed improvements to technical solutions and ways of working
• Delivered new features, fixes, and platform enhancements
• Demonstrated a collaborative approach to problem-solving and delivery
• Shared knowledge with the team while continuing to develop new skills

• Platform & Cloud Engineering
  
  Experience:
  
  Strong experience solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems, with exposure to AWS and Kubernetes environments
• Software Development & Automation
  
  Skills:
  
  Experience working across the full software development lifecycle with strong coding and automation capabilities
• Systems Thinking: Understanding of system architecture and the ability to think end-to-end across platforms and services
• Quality Engineering Mindset: Experience writing well‑tested, maintainable, secure, and performant code, including infrastructure testing (Terraform Testing, BDD‑style integration tests)
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Ability to work effectively in multi‑tenant environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities