Description
We're Zopa, a bank that's redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision puts people front and centre, empowering everyone to aim high and move finance forward.
As a Platform Engineer, you'll join the Cloud Infrastructure team within Zopa's Platform Tribe, working alongside DBA and DevX colleagues. Your mission will be to make it easier for engineers to deliver safely and independently.
Responsibilities:
- Own delivery of meaningful cloud infrastructure and migration work
- Build and improve infrastructure-as-code, containers, and cloud automation
- Collaborate with engineers to understand needs and enhance the developer experience
- Ensure platform services are secure, reliable, observable, and maintainable
- Learn and apply Zopa's AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD patterns
- Contribute to shared standards, documentation, code review, and continuous improvement
- Support business-critical services through the shared on-call rota
Requirements:
- Practical cloud experience in AWS, GCP, Azure, or another major cloud environment
- Container experience, such as Kubernetes or ECS
- Infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally Terraform or a comparable tool
- Experience contributing to CI/CD and reliable software delivery
- Ability to take ownership of a project and work through ambiguity
- Collaborative approach to enabling application engineers and improving their experience
- Evidence of quality thinking across reliability, maintainability, security, and operational readiness
- Experience participating in an on-call rota or supporting production services
Added Bonus:
- AWS experience and exposure to Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions
- Experience with service discovery, secrets management, networking, monitoring, or scripting
- Observability tooling such as Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk
- Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools
Additional Information: This hybrid role requires you to come to our Manchester office 2-3 days a week. You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!