Platform Engineer

The role

You will work on cloud infrastructure as part of Zopa's Platform team. You will help deliver a major migration and build self-service tooling and engineering guardrails for application engineers.

What you will do

• Own delivery of meaningful cloud infrastructure and migration work.
• Build and improve infrastructure-as-code, containers and cloud automation.
• Work with engineers to understand needs and improve the developer experience.
• Help make platform services secure, reliable, observable and maintainable.
• Learn and apply Zopa's AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD patterns.
• Contribute to shared standards, documentation, code review and continuous improvement.
• Support business-critical services through the shared on-call rota.

Required qualifications

• Practical cloud experience in AWS, GCP, Azure or another major cloud environment.
• Container experience, such as Kubernetes or ECS.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally Terraform or a comparable tool.
• Experience contributing to CI/CD and reliable software delivery.
• Ability to take ownership of a project with support and work through ambiguity.
• A collaborative approach to enabling application engineers and improving their experience.
• Evidence of quality thinking across reliability, maintainability, security and operational readiness.
• Experience participating in an on-call rota or supporting production services.

Nice to have

• AWS experience and exposure to Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with service discovery, secrets management, networking, monitoring or scripting.
• Observability tooling such as Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk.
• Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

Benefits

• Flexible ways of working.
• Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to right to work.
• Support for work and home life from day one.

Before you apply

• Working 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 is a UK bank that started in 2005 as a peer-to-peer lender and launched Zopa Bank in 2020. It describes itself as a place where people are encouraged to aim high and think differently.