platform engineer for developer experience

Enfint; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BUPA health insurance

Discounted gym membership (BUPA)

OnHand volunteering and day

Pension scheme

EV car leasing discount

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Workplace nursery

Regular social events

Cycle to work

On-call rotation support

Job summary

Motorway in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and self-service tooling for product teams.

Responsibilities include automating workflows with infrastructure-as-code, defining monitoring and alerting standards, enabling teams with shared metrics, supporting continuous delivery and zero-downtime deployments, and mentoring peers in a fast-moving, collaborative engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale.
• Strong production experience with AWS.
• Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms.
• Experience with platform-level security controls and observability.
• Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems for safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments.
• Comfortable with command-line tools and environments.
• Proficient in at least one programming language used for automation or tooling.
• Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge within the team and wider engineering organisation.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and ease of use for product teams.
• Design and build opinionated, self-service tooling for building, deploying, and operating services correctly.
• Automate common workflows and standardise infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and platform abstractions.
• Define and implement platform-level monitoring and alerting standards with meaningful signals.
• Enable product teams to use shared metrics and signals to understand and improve service reliability across environments.
• Own and evolve continuous delivery and release capabilities while maintaining reliability and safety.
• Apply current best practices in application hosting, continuous delivery, and developer experience to the platform.
• Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team.
• Make trade-offs, anticipate failure modes, and help the team avoid repeating past mistakes.
• Respond to production incidents in an on-call environment and improve systems based on lessons learned.

Skills

AWS

Monitoring and alerting

Security & observability

Continuous delivery

Automation

Command-line tools

Automation language

Mentoring

Platform ownership

Tools

CI/CD tooling

IaC tooling

Job description

Описание

Motorway is the UK's largest online car-selling platform, connecting private sellers directly with over 8,000 dealers nationwide. Its online platform helps sellers achieve great prices for their cars while giving dealers fast, reliable access to dealership stock.

Задачи

• Own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and ease of use for product teams;
• Design and build opinionated, self-service tooling for building, deploying, and operating services correctly;
• Automate common workflows and standardise infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and platform abstractions;
• Define and implement platform-level monitoring and alerting standards with meaningful signals;
• Enable product teams to use shared metrics and signals to understand and improve service reliability across environments;
• Own and evolve continuous delivery and release capabilities while maintaining reliability and safety;
• Apply current best practices in application hosting, continuous delivery, and developer experience to the platform;
• Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team;
• Make trade-offs, anticipate failure modes, and help the team avoid repeating past mistakes;
• Respond to production incidents in an on-call environment and improve systems based on lessons learned.

Требования

• Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale;
• Strong production experience with AWS;
• Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms;
• Experience with platform-level security controls and observability, including identifying and responding to abnormal or unsafe system behaviour;
• Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems for safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments;
• Comfortable with command-line tools and environments;
• Proficient in at least one programming language used for automation or tooling;
• Comfortable solving complex, cross-cutting problems with engineers across the organisation;
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and priorities;
• Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge within the team and wider engineering organisation;
• Nice to have: no additional preferred qualifications specified.

Условия

• BUPA health insurance;
• Discounted gym membership through BUPA;
• OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year;
• Pension scheme;
• Motorway car leasing scheme with a significant discount on a zero-emissions electric vehicle;
• Enhanced maternity pay with 26 weeks of full pay and enhanced paternity pay with 4 weeks of full pay for eligible employees;
• Workplace nursery scheme;
• Regular social events;
• Cycle to work scheme;
• Shared out-of-hours on-call rotation after an initial onboarding period, supported by the wider engineering team and designed to be sustainable.