Platform Engineer - Global Payments Infra & Reliability

Nala; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays

Birthday Leave

Enhanced Parental Leave

Enhanced Pension

Global Workspace

Job summary

NALA is accelerating its payments infrastructure in London, building fast, reliable cloud foundations for global transfers. You’ll help scale the platform, improve observability, and ship secure, high-velocity deployments across the business.

As part of a tight-knit team, you’ll work on resilient architectures, support migrations, and drive platform improvements to meet growing transaction volumes in a regulated fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure on AWS(preferably), GCP or similar cloud platforms.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience managing containerised workloads using ECS and Docker in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience operating and scaling infrastructure components such as Kafka, Redis and managed relational databases like RDS.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, observability and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation in fast-moving engineering teams.
• Comfortable debugging production issues and participating in incident response in high-availability environments.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work closely with software engineers across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the cloud infrastructure powering NALA and Rafiki, ensuring high availability, scalability and security across our systems.
• Improve developer experience through automation, self-serve tooling and infrastructure-as-code practices that increase engineering velocity.
• Own and evolve our observability, incident response and reliability practices to minimise downtime and improve system performance.
• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to support new services, migrations and platform improvements across the business.
• Strengthen our security posture by implementing best practices across networking, access controls, secrets management and production environments.
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows to enable safe, fast and reliable releases.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Docker

ECS

Kafka

Redis

RDS

Networking & Security

CI/CD automation

Incident response

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

ECS

Job description

NALA is accelerating its payments infrastructure in London, building fast, reliable cloud foundations for global transfers. You’ll help scale the platform, improve observability, and ship secure, high-velocity deployments across the business.

As part of a tight-knit team, you’ll work on resilient architectures, support migrations, and drive platform improvements to meet growing transaction volumes in a regulated fintech environment.