Platform Engineer

Location: Greater London

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London, UK:
Full time:
Posted 4 Days Ago:
R18065
** Job Title
** Platform Engineer
**** Job Description
**** 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.  
** What You Will Be Doing*
* * 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.  
** What Type of Person Fits the Role*
* * 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.  
** Technical Requirements
*** 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 Git Ops deployment setups
* Proven ability to lead initiatives — from discovery through delivery, solving…