Location & Work Model
London, Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote)
Role Overview
At Ebury, we are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team in London. In this role, you will collaborate closely with multiple development teams to accelerate value delivery, scale our systems, and build the foundation that empowers our engineering organization to thrive.
Core Tech Stack
- Terraform: Deep expertise in using Terraform to manage complex Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- AWS: Strong hands on experience designing and managing AWS environments.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience building, maintaining, and optimizing pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
- Linux: Solid systems administration and troubleshooting skills in Linux environments.
- Python: Strong scripting and programming skills in Python to drive automation, tooling, and system integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Accelerate Delivery: Partner with development teams to enhance deployment speed, system scalability, and overall application reliability.
- Maintain Platform Health: Ensure high availability, performance, and resilience across our entire production platform.
- Design & Implement: Contribute to the design, architecture, and rollout of new services and infrastructure systems.
- Observability & Monitoring: Develop and maintain robust application monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to gain deep insights into system health.
- Automate Everything: Design and implement automation tools to eliminate manual toil, boost operational efficiency, and minimize downtime.
- Incident Response: Participate in an on call rotation to quickly troubleshoot and resolve critical platform incidents.
- Stay Ahead: Keep up to date with emerging tools, methodologies, and best practices in the Cloud Native and Platform Engineering space.
About You / Qualifications
- Scale Experience: Proven experience building and operating large scale distributed systems.
- Containerization: Strong experience running web scale deployments of containerized systems using Kubernetes and/or Amazon container services (ECS/EKS).
- Problem Solver: A proactive approach to identifying root causes, debugging complex systems, and collaborating with code owners to prevent recurrence.
- Strong Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Growth Mindset: An eager learner who is passionate about building elegant, developer friendly interfaces and infrastructure.
- Nice to Have: Experience working within the FinTech industry.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Familiarity with security and compliance standards relevant to financial services (e.g., GDPR, DORA, SOC 2).
- Proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese is a plus.