Platform engineer in cloud

UnderwriteMe; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Adoption and fertility leave

Generous parental leave

Private insurance coverage for depend-

Life Insurance 9x basic salary

Income protection 75%

Cyclist to Work / Car Salary Sacrifice

Volunteer time off

Job summary

UnderwriteMe Limited is seeking a Platform Engineer to maintain, optimise, and grow our cloud platform. You will drive low-level cloud architecture, improve developer experience, and advance SRE and cloud security across regions.

The role is hands-on and high-impact, collaborating with platform and product teams to enhance scalability and time-to-market. You will operate Kubernetes workloads at scale, implement IaC, and champion GitOps and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Strong Kubernetes ops, security and governance practices in production.
• Proficient with IaC and GitOps deployment patterns.
• Exposure to distributed AWS cloud platforms across multiple regions.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex platform initiatives from concept to production with timely delivery.
• Maintain and operate a global, highly available infrastructure across regions.
• Champion CI/CD, SRE practices, networking and cloud security improvements.
• Collaborate with product teams to guide cloud usage and road to production.
• Mentor engineers to grow design and architectural thinking.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

GitOps

IaC

CI/CD

Security governance

On-call

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Tools

Helm

Prometheus

Git

Terraform

Job description

Описание:

We're looking for a Platform Engineer to help us maintain, optimise and grow our cloud platform by driving and delivering initiatives covering low-level cloud architecture, developer experience and tooling, SRE and cloud security. This is a high-impact, hands-on technical role where you'll work within a team of talented platform & cloud engineers to improve scalability, reliability, developer experience and time-to-market for our product teams. You'll combine your experience operating large systems in the cloud with a passion for developer experience and streamlining the road to production.

Задачи:

Lead complex platform initiatives from concept through to production, driving alignment, unblocking dependencies, and ensuring timely delivery of solid, reliable platform components that form the foundation of our products. Maintain and operate a global, high availability infrastructure platform spread across 5 regions with round-the-clock usage, supporting our customer success and product development teams to deliver value to our customers. You will also participate in out-of-hours on-call rotas. Champion engineering best practices, including CI/CD, SRE, networking and cloud security - raising the overall bar for quality and reliability. Collaborate and consult with other engineering teams to help guide and influence their cloud architecture and usage of the platform, ensuring their road to production is smooth and pain-free. Mentor and develop engineers, growing their design and architectural thinking, technical capabilities, and ability to operate at scale. Research, evaluate, and drive adoption of new tools, frameworks, or architectural patterns that improve developer experience, platform resilience, and delivery velocity.

Требования:

You're a high-impact platform engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure and tooling problems in the cloud. You care deeply about creating scalable, maintainable, and efficient platform solutions that provide a solid and delightful foundation for other teams to build upon. You have a deep experience of operating Kubernetes workloads at scale and maintaining a secure, well-governed cloud environment. You are a strong advocate for clear, maintainable and well-tested IaC configurations that make changes safe and easy. You're collaborative and approachable; as much at home sharing your knowledge and experience with team-mates or advising platform users as you are being knee-deep in a gnarly helm chart squashing bugs. You have your finger on the pulse; both in terms of industry best-practices and technologies and also in how our users interact with our platform - identifying pain-points and needs that can be solved to improve the developer experience. You appreciate the value of a paved road in providing a reliable platform, but also know when rigidity needs to be avoided for the benefit of the user. You strive to automate all the things, reducing manual toil and opportunity for human error. You look forward to collaborating with your team and others in-person 2 days a week in our London office. Experience designing, building & operating distributed AWS cloud infrastructure, including (but not limited to) networking, IAM, observability & monitoring, security & governance, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters. Deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform best practices alongside GitOps deployment setups Proven ability to lead initiatives - from discovery through delivery, solving problems and finding the best solutions that balance efficiency and ease of use. Experience modernising legacy systems and simplifying architecture, reducing cognitive load and making systems easier to reason about, maintain, and evolve over time.

Условия:

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Generous enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Optical benefits 15% combined employee/employer contributions
• Subsidized gym membership
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations