Platform Engineer

Switch Tech Talent; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary plus equity in the company

Generous vacation allowance

Private healthcare and medical insurance

Gym allowance

Mental health support

Work remotely from anywhere 20 days per year

Job summary

A leading technology company in London seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and maintain scalable infrastructure for their expense management platform. This hybrid role offers competitive salary, equity, and extensive benefits, including private healthcare and generous vacation allowance.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure.
• Ability to ensure platform security, reliability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Maintain and improve platform performance as it scales.

Skills

Strong experience working as a Software Engineer or similar with large-scale infrastructure systems

Hands-on expertise with AWS services

Solid background with containerisation technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS

Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or NodeJS

Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools

Experience with CI/CD tools

Excellent automation and monitoring skills

Job description

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Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure @ Switch Tech Talent

Location: London - Hybrid (3 days a week in office)

As a Senior Platform Engineer you’ll join a rapidly growing B2B SaaS known for their expense management platform, playing a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines. Making sure the platform remains secure, reliable, and high-performing as it scales globally.

Key Skills

• Strong experience working as a Software Engineer or similar with large-scale infrastructure systems
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront)
• Solid background with containerisation technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or NodeJS
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Experience with CI/CD tools like CircleCI, Codeship, Fastlane, or Bitrise
• Excellent automation and monitoring skills (DataDog, CloudWatch, Grafana)

What they offer:

• Competitive salary plus equity in the company
• Generous vacation allowance to recharge
• Private healthcare, medical insurance, gym allowance, and mental health support
• Huge opportunities for growth as we scale
• Work remotely from anywhere 20 days out of the year

If you're a Senior Platform Engineer with the above, we want to hear from you!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Retail

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