Platform Engineer

Albert Bow · London Area, United Kingdom
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Posted

Aug 25, 2026 (4d ago)

Seniority

Lead

Work Model

On-site

Type

Not Specified

Category

DevOps & SRE

Salary

£150k+ ≈ $190,500 USD

Skills

Azure Bash CI/CD GitHub GitHub Actions MySQL Observability PostgreSQL Python SRE

Description

Platform Engineer | Enterprise AI / FinTech | London (Onsite) | Up to £150k We're working with a fast-growing, well-funded enterprise AI company building technology for major financial institutions. Following a significant recent funding round, the business is scaling rapidly and is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to take ownership of its cloud infrastructure, DevOps, observability and compliance readiness. This is a high-impact role suited to someone who enjoys building and owning infrastructure end-to-end within a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Key responsibilities: Architect, build and maintain scalable, secure and highly available cloud infrastructure Own and improve CI/CD pipelines across backend, frontend and data services Drive observability across logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and on-call processes Support SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness and broader security/compliance initiatives Manage cloud performance and costs, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency Champion DevOps, reliability, security and operational best practices across engineering Technical environment: Azure - strong experience preferred; AWS exposure advantageous Terraform, Kubernetes/AKS, Docker and GitHub Actions Strong understanding of networking including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, VPNs and firewalls Production database and storage experience including PostgreSQL/MySQL/NoSQL Security tooling, secrets management and vulnerability scanning Python or Bash for scripting and automation Ideal background: Approximately 4–7 years of Platform, DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering experience Experience within a startup, scale-up or high-growth/high-load environment Proven ownership of infrastructure from architecture through to production support Experience improving reliability, security and cloud cost efficiency Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001 and/or GDPR environments Comfortable operating in an ambitious environment where priorities can move quickly and expectations are high 📩 Get in touch to hear more.