Platform Engineer

The role

You will build golden paths from repo to production that are fast, safe, and self-service. You will shape the developer platform, own the design of application golden paths, and drive progressive delivery.

What you will do

• Spend time in the office with product engineering teams to build relationships and understand how they build, test and ship.
• Turn observations into a clear developer experience roadmap and agree priorities with engineering leads.
• Own the design of application golden paths and drive adoption across services.
• Shape the Internal Developer Platform for self-service provisioning.
• Drive progressive delivery with Flux.
• Set standards for Kubernetes use, including cluster conventions, RBAC, and developer tooling.
• Define standards for configuration, variables and secrets with automated validation.
• Lead service autodiscovery, dependency mapping and health check standards.
• Lead by example with AI to speed up delivery.
• Use a data driven mindset to measure developer experience and guide decisions.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in platform engineering, DevOps or developer tooling, including building platforms or tooling that other engineers depend on.
• A track record of designing and rolling out golden paths, paved roads or self-service platforms, and getting teams to adopt them.
• Deep experience with CI/CD at scale (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy or similar).
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes and Docker experience, including setting standards for teams who deploy to it.
• Experience with GitOps and progressive delivery (Flux, Argo CD, Flagger or similar).
• Strong infrastructure and platform coding skills with tools such as Terraform.
• Someone who embraces AI as part of how they work.
• Proficiency in Go, C#, Python or PowerShell, with experience building tools that other developers use.
• A good understanding of how application teams build software.
• A strong product mindset.
• Someone who enjoys being in the office and close to the people they support.
• The ability to influence across teams and explain trade-offs clearly to engineers, leads and leadership.

Nice to have

• ideally with .NET experience

Benefits

• Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
• Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
• Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
• Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• 6 free therapy sessions per year
• Dog Friendly Offices

About the company

Capital on Tap is a financial platform that offers a business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, and a savings product. They have 1,000+ employees and 200,000+ customers.