Platform Engineer

Pepper Advantage Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Pepper Advantage is seeking a Platform Engineer to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of Prism products and supporting Azure infrastructure. This hands-on role focuses on building secure, resilient cloud platforms, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments for enterprise apps.

You will design IaC scripts with Terraform, configure Azure AD and security controls, monitor resources with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, and work closely with development and QA teams in a

Qualifications

• 4+ years of agile system engineering experience, ideally in regulated FinTech or payments.
• Excellent knowledge of Azure Cloud and Azure AD security.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform; CI/CD advocate.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of Azure infrastructure using best tools and practices.
• Design and configuration of CI/CD pipelines, containers, virtual networks, and monitoring dashboards.
• Design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts for multi-tenant setups.
• Performance monitoring and optimization of Azure resources, including cost and performance advice.
• Implementation of governance policies: Azure AD, security, virtual networks, etc.
• Collaboration with development, test, and Scrum teams to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Collaboration

Automation

Security awareness

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

As a Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Prism products and supporting infrastructure in Azure. This is a hands‑on role where you’ll implement and optimize platform services, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes for enterprise‑grade applications.

The Platform Engineer should be a can‑do, high‑achieving individual with strong product and domain expertise, who thrives on collaboration and has experience building secure, resilient cloud infrastructure. You’ll champion engineering excellence and automation, foster best practices, and bring a genuine passion for technology and continuous improvement to everything you do.

Location: Uxbridge, Skipton or London (England, UK)

Your responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of Azure infrastructure using best tools and practices.
• Design and configuration of CI/CD pipelines, containers, virtual networks, and monitoring dashboards.
• Design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts for multi‑tenant setups.
• Performance monitoring and optimization of Azure resources, including cost and performance advice.
• Implementation of governance policies: Azure AD, security, virtual networks, etc.
• Collaboration with development, test, and Scrum teams to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• 4+ years of experience in delivering fast paced and agile system Engineering ideally in regulated FinTech or payments/banking/wealth.
• Excellent knowledge of Azure Cloud, Azure AD, and security in Azure.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and tools (Terraform).
• Strong advocate of CI/CD methodologies, familiar with the Azure DevOps stack.
• Deep understanding of cloud artefacts/tools: containers, API management, event bus, app services, monitoring, etc.
• Standardized logging/metrics/tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana); built comprehensive dashboards and runbooks.
• Proven track record of building high‑performing and reliable infrastructures.

Success Metrics (what you will be measured on)

• DORA: Lead time, Deployment frequency, Change failure rate, MTTR.
• Reliability: SLO attainment (%), incident rate and severity mix, mean time to detect (MTTD).
• Quality: Escaped defects, defect density, automated test coverage, flaky test rate.
• Security/Compliance: Vulnerability SLA adherence, audit/control pass rate.
• Cost & Efficiency: Cloud unit economics, cost-to-serve, build time, onboarding time to first PR.

Pepper Advantage’s values and culture

Our mission is to help people succeed. Our clients, our customers, our employees. Our Values are ‘Can do’, ‘Balanced’ and ‘Real’.

Pepper Advantage’s values support our vision, shape our culture and define how we interact with other employees and the attitudes we adopt towards our customers and clients. The values of Pepper Advantage support the organisation’s mission statement.

Pepper Advantage’s unique outcome focused corporate culture aims to deliver fairness and value for clients and customers, consistently exceeding expectations in all measurable performance areas.

Pepper Advantage is an equal opportunities employer.

Role profiles are subject to change in line with business needs.