Senior Platform Engineer

The role

Design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams. Work on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and self-service tools that help engineers deliver products with confidence.

What you will do

• Design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams
• Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and operational patterns
• Partner with engineers to understand needs and make safe, maintainable choices
• Take ownership of work from problem definition through delivery and learning
• Strengthen observability, resilience, security and incident readiness
• Help build reusable tooling, guardrails and self-service foundations
• Contribute to platform standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and Dev X
• Support business-critical services through the shared on-call rota

Required qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments
• Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience
• Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions, and reusable-pipeline thinking
• Experience with logging and monitoring, networking and protocols, scripting, secrets management and service discovery
• Exposure to both AWS and Kubernetes, with sound coding experience
• Evidence of designing secure, reliable and maintainable platform solutions
• Autonomous delivery and constructive collaboration with application engineers
• Experience supporting business-critical services through an on-call rota

Nice to have

• Experience with Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, including SLO-led practices
• Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve quality and productivity

Benefits

• Flexible ways of working
• Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to right to work

Before you apply

• Working from abroad is subject to having the right to work in the country of choice
• Behavioural and competency-based interviews: AI use is not permitted
• Technical interviews: AI use depends on the stage; the Talent Partner will say what is expected

About the company

Zopa started in 2005 as a peer-to-peer lending company and launched Zopa Bank in 2020. It describes itself as a bank that changes how finance feels for customers and as one of the UK's Most Loved Workplaces.