Platform Engineer

SR2; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm in Bristol is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance platform reliability and developer experience. You'll design resilient cloud infrastructure, improve CI/CD workflows, and support large-scale operations. This hands-on role promises real ownership with significant impact and a collaborative culture that values feedback and learning. The position offers a competitive salary range of £50k-£84k, equity, and a hybrid work setup with flexible hours.

Benefits

Equity

Private healthcare

Flexible working hours

Wellness budget

Enhanced maternity & paternity leave

Monthly company-wide get-togethers

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a platform/infrastructure mindset.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or similar).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Experience supporting production systems and improving reliability.
• Familiarity with containers, orchestration, and deployment tooling.
• A pragmatic, problem-solving approach.

Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Improving observability, monitoring, and incident response practices.
• Supporting platform reliability for large-scale voting operations.
• Enabling application teams through better tooling, automation, and documentation.
• Working on infrastructure that supports AI-enabled products.
• Refactoring and modernising existing platform services.

Skills

Strong engineering fundamentals

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Production systems support

Containers and orchestration

Problem-solving approach

Job description

Platform Engineer

Location: Bristol / Hybrid

Level: Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £50k-£84k + equity + benefits

The opportunity

I've worked with this team for over 7 years, and they genuinely get better every year. They're on a mission to equip investors with the tools to steward their capital responsibly - giving people visibility and a real voice over where their money goes, and the impact it has.

They've built an industry-leading platform that's changing how shareholder voting works (for good), and they're now scaling both their core infrastructure and a brand-new AI product that's a genuine game‑changer.

We're hiring multiple engineers across the team, including a Platform Engineer to help build and scale the foundations everything else runs on.

The role

As a Platform Engineer, you'll focus on the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of the platform. You'll work closely with product and application engineers to ensure the infrastructure, tooling, and deployment pipelines enable teams to ship safely, quickly, and with confidence.

This is a hands‑on role with real ownership - you'll be close to production, close to decisions, and have a tangible impact on how the platform scales as the company grows.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and maintaining scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Improving observability, monitoring, and incident response practices
• Supporting platform reliability for large-scale voting operations
• Enabling application teams through better tooling, automation, and documentation
• Working on infrastructure that supports AI-enabled products and data workloads
• Refactoring and modernising existing platform services where needed

What you'll bring

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a platform / infrastructure mindset
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or similar)
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
• Experience supporting production systems and improving reliability
• Familiarity with containers, orchestration, and deployment tooling
• A pragmatic, problem‑solving approach - you care about outcomes, not just tools

Why them

• Real ownership over meaningful, mission‑driven systems
• Engineers close to production and decision‑making
• A culture that values learning, feedback, and continuous improvement
• The chance to shape how capital markets behave - for the better

⭐ 5-star Glassdoor reviews

Process & benefits

3-stage interview process (including a technical exercise)

Salary £50k-£85k DOE + equity

Enhanced maternity & paternity leave

Wellness budget

Private healthcare

Flexible working hours

Hybrid setup - encouraged 1 day per week in the Bristol office

Monthly company-wide get‑togethers