Platform Engineer

Pepper Advantage; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking a Platform Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of cloud products. You will develop and maintain Azure infrastructure, design CI/CD pipelines, and implement Infrastructure as Code. This hands-on role demands proficiency in cloud security and collaboration among teams. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in fast-paced environments and shares a passion for technology and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in delivering agile system engineering in regulated environments.
• Excellent knowledge of Azure security and Azure AD.
• Deep understanding of cloud artifacts and tools.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of Azure infrastructure using best practices.
• Design and configuration of CI/CD pipelines and monitoring dashboards.
• Implementation of governance policies and collaboration with teams.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD methodologies

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

API management

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.