Platform Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work 2-3 days in Manchester

Dog-friendly office

Work abroad up to 120 days

Job summary

Zopa is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our Platform Tribe in Manchester. You will own delivery of cloud infrastructure and migration work, build and improve infra as code, containers, and automation, and work with engineers to enhance the developer experience.

You’ll help ensure platform services are secure, reliable, observable and maintainable, and you’ll learn and apply Zopa’s AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD patterns while contributing to standards and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Practical cloud experience across AWS, GCP, Azure or comparable environments.
• Container experience with Kubernetes or ECS.
• IaC experience, preferably Terraform or equivalent.
• Experience contributing to CI/CD and reliable software delivery.
• Ability to own projects with ambiguity and collaborate across teams.

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

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Container orchestration

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD practices

Ownership & collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Our Story

Hello there. We’re Zopa.

We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com !

We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.

If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count.Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife

The Team

Cloud Infrastructure is part of Zopa’s Platform Tribe, working alongside DBA and Dev X colleagues. Our customers arethe engineerswho build Zopa’s products, and we are making it easier for them to deliver safely and independently. In the near term, the team is completing a major migration. Beyond that, we are bringing platform capabilities together and creating more self-service tooling and clear engineering guardrails. You will join early enough to make a tangible contribution to how the platformevolves,not simplymaintainwhat already exists.

A Day In The Life:

• 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 .

About You:

• 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.

Added Bonus:

• AWS experience and exposure to Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with service discovery, secrets management, networking, monitoring or scripting.
• Observability tooling such as Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry , Prometheus, Splunk .
• Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

#LI-AP1

At Zopa we value flexible ways of working.

We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our Manchester office 2-3 days a week. (WeWork, Dalton Place, 29 John Dalton Street, M2 6WF) Please note this office is dog friendly so you might see some furry friends about!

You’ll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.

*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice

Diversity Statement

Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Our approach to AI in interviews

At Zopa, AI isn't something we're testing out — it's part of how we work every day. As a proud partner of Jobs 2030 ,we'recommitted to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expectZopiansto use AI as part of how they do their jobs.

Because of that, we want to be transparent about how we think about AI use during our hiring process.

Behavioural and competency-based interviews : pleasedon'tuse AI . These conversations are designed to understand you — your experiences, your judgment, and howyou'veapproached real situations. An AI-generated answercan'ttell us that. What it can do is get in the way of us finding out whetherwe'rethe right fit for each other.

Technical interviews: it depends on the role. Some technical stages actively welcome AI use,othersdon't. Your Talent Partner will let you knowwhat'sexpected at each stage.Where AI is part of the assessment,we'llbe interested not just in the outcome, but in how you used it – the tools you chose, your reasoning, and the decisions you made along the way.