Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer

Zopa Bank; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Dog-friendly office

Work from abroad up to 120 days/year

Job summary

Zopa is hiring for a Platform/Cloud Infrastructure role based in Manchester. You will own delivery of cloud infrastructure and migration, build infrastructure-as-code, and collaborate with engineers to improve the developer experience.

You will work with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD patterns and be part of Platform Tribe. The role offers hybrid working with 2–3 days in the Manchester office and the option to work abroad up to 120 days a year.

Qualifications

• 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 with support and work through ambiguity.
• A 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.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of meaningful cloud infrastructure and migration work.
• Build and improve infrastructure-as-code, containers and cloud automation.
• Work with engineers to understand needs and improve the developer experience.
• Help make platform services 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.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Cloud experience

On-call

Developer experience

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Honeycomb

Job description

Zopa is hiring for a Platform/Cloud Infrastructure role based in Manchester. You will own delivery of cloud infrastructure and migration, build infrastructure-as-code, and collaborate with engineers to improve the developer experience.

You will work with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD patterns and be part of Platform Tribe. The role offers hybrid working with 2–3 days in the Manchester office and the option to work abroad up to 120 days a year.