Senior Platform Engineer
Our client is an exceptional global leader within the digital asset and financial technology space, looking to hire a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale the core infrastructure that underpins a business operating at the forefront of modern markets. Recognised for its market-leading position, engineering excellence, and continued investment in technology, the firm offers the rare combination of genuine scale, technical complexity, and long-term stability. As a Platform Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to influence critical infrastructure, work alongside elite engineers, and build solutions that directly impact the success of the business.
They are looking for a Platform Engineer who thrives in high-performance environments and takes genuine ownership of the platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that empower engineering teams to move faster and operate more effectively. The ideal Platform Engineer will bring a strong builder's mindset, exceptional technical curiosity, and a passion for solving problems at scale. This is an opportunity for a Platform Engineer to work on challenging technical problems, shape the future of Platform Engineering, and gain significant autonomy, visibility, and career progression within a highly respected technology organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve internal platform capabilities used by engineering teams globally.
- Develop automation and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity and reduces operational overhead.
- Enhance CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure platforms to improve reliability and scalability.
- Build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure supporting critical business systems.
- Drive Platform Engineering best practices across software delivery, automation, and infrastructure management.
- Partner with engineering teams to understand challenges and deliver solutions that improve workflows and efficiency.
- Improve system resilience, security, and operational excellence across the technology estate.
- Lead strategic platform initiatives from design through implementation and adoption.
- Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the long-term direction of the engineering platform.
Key Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer.
- Strong background building platforms that support large engineering organisations.
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud infrastructure, and modern automation tooling.
- Strong software engineering mindset with experience writing code to automate and solve infrastructure challenges.
- Experience designing and operating scalable, production-grade platform services.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD, observability, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native technologies.
- Proven ability to work directly with engineering stakeholders and drive adoption of platform solutions.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction.
- Strong ownership mentality, commercial awareness, and passion for continuous improvement.
- A track record of delivering high-impact technical initiatives within complex environments.
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