Senior Platform Engineer

London

Full time

Hybrid

Technology

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Platform Engineer to join Definely during a pivotal stage of growth. Senior Platform Engineers get involved with the whole product infrastructure and tooling, building out novel and scalable solutions for engineers and customers. We're also responsible for reliability, security and automation.

The work we do in platform is broad and deep, but in a normal week you'll be involved in:

• Own the operational performance of our systems, analysing repetitive work and toil, and automating where most advantageous

• Manage our CI/CD system and improve the developer experience whilst maintaining error budgets and deployment safety

• Design and architect our platform to support product needs at a strategic level

• Build a highly robust cloud environment (mostly AWS) through IaC, automation and best-fit architectures

• Leading projects of improvement to our platform and ensuring delivery according to plan

• Collaborating closely with product engineering, security and leadership teams across the business

• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles

• Expertise in Cloud tools and services (AWS is our primary cloud)

• Deep understanding of DevOps SRE practices

• Directing and architecting robust and resilient cloud services through IaC (we use Terraform)

• Knowledge of highly performant and strongly governed CI/CD practices and tooling

• Ability to lead technical projects and make pragmatic architectural decisions

• Have experience with security products and tooling, and DevSecOps experience in a highly dynamic environment

• Have experience leading incident response and post incident reviews

• Deep experience with data platforms (databases, queues, caches, storage etc.)

• Have experience building AI/ML infrastructure or workloads

• Have worked in high growth SaaS or startup environments

• Competitive salary & annual bonus

• Share options

• Quarterly team socials & annual company offsite

• Hybrid working + 1 month "work from anywhere"

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Take your birthday off

• £750 annual learning & development budget

• Private healthcare (incl. dental & optical)

• Enhanced parental leave

• Additional perks: Cycle to Work, Workplace Nursery salary sacrifice scheme, and top-quality equipment