Platform Engineer; Developer RTGS Technology

Platform Engineer Technology Directorate

Permanent

Full time

This is an opportunity to do meaningful platform engineering work inside one of the UK's most critical technology environments.

RTGS settles on average £800bn per day and is Critical National Infrastructure - the developer experience and CI/CD platform your team builds and operates is what RTGS delivery teams depend on to build, test, secure, and release software safely and consistently.

As a Platform Engineer in the Developer Experience team, you will be a hands-on technical contributor, working on the services that underpin how software is built and delivered across RTGS Technology - including build pipelines, release processes, artefact management, and developer tooling.

The Developer Experience platform is provided as a shared service - enabling RTGS delivery teams to build, test, and release their software independently, consistently, and to the standard expected in a regulated, high-availability environment.

This role follows a "you build it, you own it model". You are responsible not just for delivering platform capabilities, but for how they perform in production - diagnosing issues, restoring service, and improving the platform based on real operational experience.

This role is open to flexible working patterns, which may include:

• Flexible start and end times to each day
• A 50% in-office attendance requirement that can be spread across the month, with flexibility to reflect operational commitments such as on-call and out-of-hours work
• Working from abroad (subject to approval)

We're excited to be growing our presence in Leeds, a city we've been connected to for nearly 200 years! Our modern, accessible office in the City Centre offers a supportive, flexible working environment. The majority of roles, including this one, are now available in Leeds, giving you the chance to build a meaningful career outside of London while contributing to our mission from a dynamic and growing location.

You'll work collaboratively with London-based colleagues in a hybrid model, with regular opportunities to travel into the London office to meet and connect together in person.

Your day might begin with the team stand-up - aligning on priorities, identifying where the platform needs attention, and focusing on improving the reliability and usability of delivery services for RTGS teams.

Much of your time will be spent working directly in the CI/CD and developer experience platform - improving Jenkins build pipelines, refining release workflows, managing artefacts in the repository, or resolving issues affecting how a team's software - including container images - moves through the delivery lifecycle. This is hands-on engineering work.

You may also be evolving the platform itself - developing reusable pipeline templates, improving artefact management, refining how quality and security controls are applied to Docker image builds and other release artefacts, or carrying out upgrades to Jenkins and related tooling that keep the platform secure, supported, and operationally robust.

At times, you will be investigating production issues - analysing logs and metrics, identifying root causes in build or release processes, and working with delivery teams to restore service. These are opportunities to improve how the platform behaves, not just fix problems.

You will work closely with delivery teams - helping engineers get the most from Jenkins, Git-based workflows, and the wider platform, supporting adoption of standard delivery patterns, and ensuring they can build, test, and release software - including container images - independently without relying on the platform team to do it for them.

Throughout the day, you will contribute to improving the developer experience across RTGS - reducing friction in build, test, and release workflows.

This role includes participation in an on-call rota. When on call, you are responsible for the CI/CD and developer experience platform in production - responding to incidents, diagnosing issues, restoring service, and ensuring that lessons learned lead to lasting improvements.

As a Platform Engineer in the Developer Experience team, you will be an active, hands-on contributor responsible for both delivering and operating platform services.

You will:

• Deliver and operate developer experience and CI/CD platform services - taking responsibility for both building capabilities and supporting them in production
• Embed controls into the delivery pipeline to enable safe, compliant, and traceable releases
• Build, maintain, and improve services that support:
• Build and integration pipelines using tools such as Jenkins
• Release and deployment workflows
• Artefact management and versioning, including Docker images and other build artefacts
• Engineering quality and standards enforcement
• Develop reusable pipeline templates and paved path delivery patterns that enable teams to adopt…