Platform Engineer: Hybrid DevOps for Developer Experience

AI Startups UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Pension

Private Medical Insurance

Paid sick leave with Income Protection

Group Life Assurance

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work

25 holiday days per year

Hybrid working model

Work abroad for up to 3 months a year

Sabbatical after 5 years

Job summary

9fin is hiring a highly‑motivated platform engineer to empower engineers with world‑class developer experience. You will design infrastructure as code, implement multi‑account AWS core infrastructure, and optimise CI/CD for rapid releases. You will also build a developer portal and contribute to observability metrics to balance velocity and reliability.

The role requires strong AWS, Terraform, Linux, Docker, and scripting skills, plus a passion for fintech and platform engineering discipline.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building secure, scalable DevOps platforms.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing infrastructure as code templates/modules.
• Managing multi-account AWS core infrastructure with security best practices.
• Authoring CI/CD templates and optimisations for frequent releases.
• Developing a developer portal and DevOps plugins for engineers.
• Contributing to observability practices with SLI/SLO reporting.
• Develop inner/open source projects to improve developer experience.

Skills

AWS core services

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Linux

Docker

Python

Go

SRE basics

Incident management

OpenTelemetry

Agile practices

Fintech exposure

Tools

Terraform

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Job description

9fin is hiring a highly‑motivated platform engineer to empower engineers with world‑class developer experience. You will design infrastructure as code, implement multi‑account AWS core infrastructure, and optimise CI/CD for rapid releases. You will also build a developer portal and contribute to observability metrics to balance velocity and reliability.

The role requires strong AWS, Terraform, Linux, Docker, and scripting skills, plus a passion for fintech and platform engineering discipline.