Platform Engineer

Requirements

• Experience in cloud platforms with a focus on building and maintaining platform services for developer enablement
• Strong IaC concepts and language agnostic automation skills. We at Oaknorth do not believe that different tools, languages or technology should ever be a barrier
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms with a strong understanding of the core containerisation concepts
• Experienced in designing, implementing CI/CD pipelines with an emphasis on deployment automation and reliability thus adding to developer experience
• Knowledge of observability, logging, and monitoring best practices
• A collaborative and product-minded approach, focusing on enabling engineering teams
• Enjoy collaborating with engineers, security and product teams while working in an Agile setup
• Good communication skills that make it easy to understand complex technical ideas
• A low ego working style that supports open collaboration and encourages everyone to share ideas
• As we continue to scale, we’re looking for self-starters and bold thinkers who are excited to build on this success and help shape the next generation of financial products and platforms delivering real value to both individuals and businesses

• This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract
• We are looking for a Platform Engineer, you will be a key part of this mission, working to provide self-service infra, automation, and tools that enhance engineering effectiveness, reliability, and security
• Design and build self-service infrastructure and developer tooling to enhance engineering effectiveness
• Improve the developer experience by creating platform abstractions that reduce complexity and accelerate delivery
• Enable teams to own and operate their services autonomously by continuously refining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Improve system transparency for our teams by enhancing the observability stack using tools like Cloud Watch, X‑Ray and Grafana
• Take initiative to identify inefficiencies in the platform and plan with Senior Engineers for the solutions to be included in the roadmap
• Implement best practices for resiliency and reliability to ensure platform stability and reduce single points of failure
• Work together with the Information and Cyber Security teams to help embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and automation frameworks
• Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand their pain points and proactively improve platform capabilities
• Partner with Senior Platform Engineers with a willingness to take initiative
• Promote open communication, cross‑team collaboration, and a culture of experimentation
• Foster a culture of upward feedback that enables bidirectional growth
• Help ensure a psychologically safe environment where team members can challenge ideas and solutions respectfully and share feedback openly

• Collaborate - We work in cross‑functional, mission driven, autonomous squads that gel over time. We pair program to work better through shared experience and knowledge
• Focus on outcomes over outputs - Solving a problem for users that translates to business results is our goal. Measurements focused on that goal help us to understand if we are succeeding
• Practice continuous improvement - We optimise for feedback now, rather than presume what might be needed in the future and introduce complexity before it will be used. This means we learn faster. We share learnings in blame‑free formats, so that we do not repeat things that have failed, but still have confidence to innovate
• Seek to understand our users - We constantly seek understanding from data and conversations to better serve our users’ needs, taking an active part in research to hear from them directly and regularly
• Embrace and enable continuous deployment - Seamless delivery of changes into an environment - without manual intervention - is essential for us to ensure that we are highly productive; consider resiliency; and practice security by design
• Test outside‑in, test first - TDD keeps us confident in moving fast and deploying regularly. We want to solve user problems, and so we test with that mindset…