Senior Platform Engineer; DevEx and Cloud Ops

We're On the Beach! Since 2003, we've been rewriting the rules of how people discover, book, and experience their perfect getaway. What started as connecting people to short-haul beach holidays has evolved into something much bigger - premium beach destinations, long-haul adventures, and vibrant city breaks - and that's just the beginning of our story.

We send around two million holidaymakers on their dream breaks every year. And we're still growing.

Powered by our deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit, proprietary tech, curiosity and our incredible people, we're accelerating - delivering best in class technology, the ultimate holiday app, and experiences that keep our customers coming back for more.

Ready to build the future of travel with us?

At On the Beach, millions of customers use our technology to discover, plan and book their holidays every year.

Behind that experience is an engineering organisation that needs reliable infrastructure, great tooling and simple ways of building and running software. We're continuing to invest in our engineering platform and are looking for Senior Platform Engineers to help us make that experience better.

You'll work across cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, automation and operational engineering to help our product teams build, deploy and operate software more effectively.

Depending on your background, you may naturally lean more towards areas such as AWS and cloud infrastructure, developer experience, CI/CD, internal tooling, reliability or automation. We don't expect every Platform Engineer to be an expert in everything.

What matters most is that you understand modern platform engineering and enjoy solving problems that make engineering teams faster, cheaper, safer and more effective.

AI is also changing how software is built, and we want our platform to evolve alongside it.

You'll have the opportunity to explore how AI-assisted tooling can remove friction, improve engineering workflows and support new ways of working. The existing draft already makes this a significant part of the role.

• You'll work closely with engineers across Product Engineering, Digital Workplace and Info Sec to understand problems and turn them into simple, scalable platform solutions. That cross-team element is already one of the strongest parts of the current description.

• Your work could include improving self-service tooling, building reusable infrastructure and deployment patterns, developing CI/CD capabilities, improving cloud reliability and scalability, reducing developer friction, and helping teams better understand the performance and cost of the systems they operate.

• You'll also contribute to observability, security and Fin Ops, helping us balance reliability, performance, security and cloud cost.

• As part of supporting the reliability of our cloud platform, there may also be occasional on-call responsibilities to help monitor systems and respond to issues when required.

• As a Senior Engineer, you'll be trusted to take ownership of complex problems, make pragmatic technical decisions and help shape how our platform evolves.

• You’ll also support other engineers through pairing, code reviews, technical discussions and knowledge sharing.

You’ll be a great addition to our team if you have the following skills, knowledge and experience

We're looking for an experienced engineer with a strong background in platform, cloud, infrastructure or developer tooling.

You'll ideally have experience working with AWS and modern cloud-native environments, along with some combination of infrastructure as code, containers, CI/CD, observability, automation and developer tooling.

You don't need to have worked with every technology we use. We're much more interested in your ability to understand complex systems, make sensible engineering trade-offs and build solutions that other engineers genuinely want to use.

You should be comfortable working across team boundaries, taking ambiguous problems and turning them into practical solutions.

We'd also like you to be someone who thinks beyond simply keeping infrastructure running. Great platform engineering should improve the experience of the engineers using it.

You'll care about areas such as:

• AWS and cloud-native engineering

• Infrastructure as code and automation

• CI/CD and software delivery

• Developer tooling and self-service platforms

• Kubernetes and containerised environments

• Observability, reliability and incident management

• Security and sensible…