Senior Platform Engineer

Overview

As a Cloud Platform Engineer within Zopa’s Platform Tribe, you design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities to empower engineering teams. You will improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational patterns, partnering with engineers to deliver safe, maintainable solutions. Your work strengthens observability, resilience, security, and incident readiness, while building reusable tooling and self-service foundations. This role offers hands-on ownership from problem definition to delivery in a mission-driven culture that values collaboration and impact. You will help shape standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and DevX in a growing platform ecosystem.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid role with London office 2-3 days
• option to work from abroad up to 120 days a year
• focus on work-life balance
• diversity and inclusion emphasis

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams
• Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and operational patterns
• Partner with engineers to understand needs and enable safe, maintainable decisions
• Own work from problem definition through delivery and learning
• Strengthen observability, resilience, security and incident readiness
• Build reusable tooling, guardrails and self-service foundations
• Contribute to platform standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and DevX
• Support business-critical services through the on-call rota

Key requirements

• Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production
• Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience
• Strong CI/CD experience, especially GitHub Actions, with reusable-pipeline thinking
• Experience with logging, monitoring, networking, scripting, secrets management and service discovery
• Exposure to AWS and Kubernetes with solid 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

• autonomous delivery
• constructive collaboration
• partnership with engineers
• AWS
• Kubernetes / EKS
• Docker

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