Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Engineer in Developer Enablement at Capital on Tap, you will shape the developer experience by designing golden paths and self-service provisioning for the Internal Developer Platform. You’ll work closely with product engineering teams in London to turn ground observations into a strategic roadmap and drive adoption across services. Your work will enable faster, safer releases and standardised Kubernetes usage, influencing how engineers build, test and deploy. This role offers hands-on engineering leadership in a fintech scale-up with a strong emphasis on collaboration, tooling, and AI-assisted delivery.

Pay / Benefits

• Private Healthcare including dental and opticians through Vitality
• Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
• Anniversary Rewards and sabbatical
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in person with product engineering teams to understand build/test/deploy workflows and pain points.
• Translate ground observations into a clear, prioritized developer experience roadmap with engineering leads.
• Own the design of application golden paths and drive adoption across services.
• Shape the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for self-service production enablement with built-in standards.
• Advance progressive delivery and safe, automated releases using Flux and related tooling.
• Set and enforce Kubernetes standards, cluster conventions, RBAC, CRDs, and developer tooling.
• Define configuration, variables and secrets management with automated validation.
• Lead autodiscovery, dependency mapping, and health checks with SREs.
• Model AI adoption to accelerate delivery while maintaining safety and judgement.
• Maintain data-driven measurement of developer experience and impact; mentor engineers and codify learnings.
• Document clearly and collaborate with product teams to remove friction.

Key requirements

• Significant experience in platform engineering, DevOps or developer tooling.
• Proven track record of designing and rolling out golden paths or self-service platforms with adoption.
• Deep experience with CI/CD at scale (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy).
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes and Docker experience with standard-setting capabilities.
• Experience with GitOps and progressive delivery (Flux, Argo CD, Flagger).
• Infrastructure and platform coding with Terraform.
• Proficiency in Go, C#, Python or PowerShell; building tools used by developers.
• Understanding of how application teams build software, ideally with .NET exposure.
• Strong product mindset with data-backed decision making.
• Enjoy being in the office and collaborating closely with teams.
• Ability to influence across teams and articulate trade-offs to engineers and leadership.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the bar within a team.

• Collaborative
• Mentoring
• Data-driven decision making
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• GitOps

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