Senior Platform Engineer
Zopa· Engineering – DevX & Platform Engineering
Hybrid (London)Employee - PermanentPosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior Platform Engineer at Zopa, focused on building and evolving cloud platform capabilities, improving AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform/CI/CD patterns, and shaping self-service tooling and standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and DevX.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams.
- Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and operational patterns.
- Partner with engineers to understand needs and make safe, maintainable choices.
- Take ownership of work from problem definition through delivery and learning.
- Strengthen observability, resilience, security and incident readiness.
- Help build reusable tooling, guardrails and self-service foundations.
- Contribute to platform standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and DevX.
- Support business-critical services through the shared on-call rota.
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments.
- Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience.
- Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions, and reusable-pipeline thinking.
- Experience with logging and monitoring, networking and protocols, scripting, secrets management and service discovery.
- Exposure to both AWS and Kubernetes, with sound 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.
Skills
Required:AWSKubernetes / EKSTerraformDockerGitHub ActionsObservability / MonitoringSecurity & Incident ReadinessSRE On-Call
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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