# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company**: Zopa
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Employee - Permanent
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/zopa/33ed6dc4-4578-4737-8409-d843e7847aad?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bfef7193-a99

## Description

## Job Description

We're Zopa, a bank that listens to what our customers don't like about finance and does the opposite. We're redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre - we've built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward.

### The Team

Cloud Infrastructure sits within Zopa's Platform Tribe alongside DBA and DevX colleagues. We build the foundations that help engineering teams deliver reliable, secure products with confidence. We are at the beginning of a meaningful transformation: moving from infrastructure that is primarily operated for teams towards a platform that engineers can increasingly use through clear, self-service capabilities. This role will help shape the standards, guardrails and developer experience that make that possible.

### A Day In The Life:

- 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.

### About You:

- 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.

### Added Bonus:

- Experience with Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, including SLO-led practices.

- Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve quality and productivity.

### Additional Information

At Zopa we value flexible ways of working. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week. You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- Helm
- EKS
- logging
- monitoring
- networking
- protocols
- scripting
- secrets management
- service discovery

### Nice to have
- Honeycomb
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Splunk
- SLO-led practices
- AI-assisted engineering tools

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