Platform Engineer: AI-Ready Cloud Infra

Capital on Tap; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Annual learning & wellbeing budget

Cycle to work

Sabbatical & bonuses

Job summary

Capital on Tap, a London-based fintech, is expanding its Core Infrastructure team. The role focuses on building a secure, code-driven cloud foundation across Azure, Kubernetes, and edge networks, while modernising access, secrets and multi-cloud strategies.

You’ll work closely with AI infrastructure teams to connect models from leading platforms and ensure robust, automated operations. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement with two in-office days in London and opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• Experience managing public cloud environments, ideally Azure.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong networking knowledge (DNS, load balancing, TLS, CDNs or WAFs).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar).
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Go, Rust, PowerShell or Python.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Azure foundations using Terraform and reusable modules.
• Run network and edge components (Cloudflare, Istio, Cato).
• Manage cloud identity and access (RBAC, managed identities).
• Automate secret and certificate management.
• Automate infrastructure and patching with a fixed cadence.
• Build and maintain infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and templates.
• Support AI infrastructure via model access and gateways.
• Contribute to cost management, DR and multi-cloud efforts.
• Collaborate with Database Eng, SRE and enablement teams.
• Write clear documentation and maintain standards.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Networking

Scripting (Python/Go/PowerShell)

Azure

GitHub Actions

Security & IAM

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloudflare

Istio

Cato

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Capital on Tap, a London-based fintech, is expanding its Core Infrastructure team. The role focuses on building a secure, code-driven cloud foundation across Azure, Kubernetes, and edge networks, while modernising access, secrets and multi-cloud strategies.

You’ll work closely with AI infrastructure teams to connect models from leading platforms and ensure robust, automated operations. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement with two in-office days in London and opportunities to influence