Platform engineer

The role

You will shape and evolve the platform that underpins investment products within the Cloud Resilience team. You will architect, implement, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure and design cloud-native solutions.

What you will do

• Architecting, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure infrastructure in AWS using Terraform.
• Designing cloud-native solutions using MongoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, and other AWS services.
• Contributing to incident response efforts, production readiness, and reliability initiatives.
• Enhancing observability and platform insight using Datadog.
• Continuously improving CI/CD processes with GitHub Actions.
• Collaborating with software engineers to ensure secure, performant, and resilient applications.
• Mentoring engineers and championing DevOps culture and best practices.

Required qualifications

• Experience in regulated environments.
• Confidence working with JavaScript/TypeScript-based applications.
• Knowledge of databases like MongoDB and Postgres.
• Fluency in AWS best practices.
• Fluency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Fluency in CI/CD tooling like GitHub Actions.
• Exposure to architectural decisions.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible)
• Day off on your birthday
• Three days per year for Dependant leave
• Two volunteering days per year
• Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
• Secclbrate recognition programme with extra pay, additional holiday and increased learning budget
• Length of service award: one month paid sabbatical at eight years
• 6% employer pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance with AXA Health
• Enhanced Parental leave
• MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget

Before you apply

• First stage – 60 mins Cloud System Design interview
• Second stage – 60 mins Terraform Code Review Interview
• Final stage – 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview
• Role will close once enough applications are received for the next stage

About the company

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform. They are building the infrastructure behind the next generation of investing.