Platform Engineer

Client

Our client is a financial services company working on a secure digital banking platform.

Team

You will join a cross-functional DevOps and cloud engineering team that includes DevOps engineers, cloud architects, backend developers, and reliability specialists. The team collaborates closely, follows iterative delivery practices, and maintains a structured approach to stability, security, and automation.

Position overview

We are looking for a Platform Engineer who can grow into a leadership role within the team. We are undertaking a landmark project: migrating our entire Fintech infrastructure from self-hosted Jenkins to a SaaS-based GitHub Actions platform and establishing a unified, “golden path” CI/CD platform that is fast, reliable, and easy to adopt. Beyond migration, we are reimagining the internal developer platform as a product for our engineering teams: reducing toil, standardising workflows, and enabling self-service delivery at scale. This includes progressively embedding AI across the SDLC, from pipeline optimisation and test intelligence to incident insight and developer guidance, moving toward a data-driven, AI-assisted delivery ecosystem that enables teams to ship quickly, safely, and with confidence.

The working schedule is aligned with the UK time zone (9am to 5:30pm UK time) and involves participating in on-call shifts if required.

This position includes a sign-in bonus.

Technology stack

Go, Kotlin, Java, AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, Terraform, Vault, Knative, Honeycomb, Splunk, Prometheus, GetDX, Claude, ChatGPT

Responsibilities

• Design and develop internal CLI tools and automation providers primarily in Go

• Plan and execute the migration of CI CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub Actions

• Standardise and maintain reusable CI CD workflows as part of a golden path platform

• Collaborate with cloud architects and engineers to design and operate AWS infrastructure on EKS

• Implement GitOps practices using Argo CD for application delivery

• Embed observability and reliability practices using SLO driven monitoring and alerting

• Use data from engineering metrics platforms to identify and prioritise platform improvements

• Work closely with engineering teams to enable, educate, and support adoption of the platform

• Participate in an on call rotation aligned with the UK time zone when required

• Leverage AI assisted tools in daily engineering work to improve productivity and quality

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code using Terraform

• Practical experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS-based systems

• Solid background in CI CD with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, including pipeline migration and workflow standardisation

• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD

• Familiarity with secrets management using Vault

• Experience using observability tools such as Prometheus, Splunk, or Honeycomb

• Demonstrated use of engineering metrics to drive platform or process improvements

• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools as part of everyday engineering work

• Experience in at least one programming language

• Proven track record of mentoring and technically growing other engineers (not management, not top-down architect)

• Proven experience not only using infrastructure tools, but also building internal platforms and tools on top of them

Nice to have

• Experience with Knative or event driven platforms

• Exposure to internal developer platforms treated as product offerings

• Experience working in regulated or financial services environments

• Familiarity with platforms such as LinearB in addition to GetDX

• Strong experience writing production quality code in Go

• Regulated background experience

What We Offer:

• Vacation days: Up to 26 business days per year.

• 10 illness/special days off per year (fully paid, no medical papers needed) for all contract types

• Health and life insurance (Luxmed)

• MyBenefit platform with Multisport option

• Internal psychological support service

• English language classes from the first working day

• Access to external learning platforms: O’Reilly, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and a wide catalog of diverse internal training

• Flexible workplace: work from the office, from home, or choose a hybrid option

• Tech Skills Mentoring Program

• Opportunities to develop as a public speaker, mentor, or technical interviewer

• Fully paid idle (bench) when not involved in a project

• Certification reimbursement (AWS, GCP, Microsoft, etc.)