Platform Engineer: Real-Time Infra, Ownership & Equity

Provn Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Equity

Autonomous ownership

Job summary

Provn Inc. in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure underpinning real-time production systems.

You will work across production infrastructure, Linux performance, observability, deployments, developer experience and internal tooling with freedom to decide what to improve. The role focuses on building systems, tooling, and processes that the wider engineering team relies on, with ownership from idea to production.

Qualifications

• Experience building, running and automating production infrastructure.
• Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and interest in deeper system levels.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD.
• Experience improving reliability and observability of production systems.
• Strong examples of projects you have personally owned and delivered.
• Comfortable working where problems are loosely defined.
• Ability to move quickly and take ownership without a backlog.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve infrastructure supporting real-time, 24/7 production systems.
• Build reliable deployment, rollback and operational workflows.
• Improve observability across metrics, logging, dashboards, tracing and alerting.
• Develop tooling and automation to help engineers ship faster and more safely.
• Improve CI/CD, build processes, test environments and configuration workflows.
• Work at the Linux and infrastructure level to improve performance, reliability and latency.
• Investigate networking, CPU utilisation and host-level performance.
• Automate repetitive operational processes and remove bottlenecks.
• Build internal tools used across the engineering team.
• Contribute to infrastructure security and secrets management.
• Identify infrastructure problems and own improvements from idea to production.

Skills

Production infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure

Linux fundamentals

CI/CD

Observability

Automation

Ownership

Performance

Real-time systems

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Scripting (Shell/Python)

Job description

Provn Inc. in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure underpinning real-time production systems.

You will work across production infrastructure, Linux performance, observability, deployments, developer experience and internal tooling with freedom to decide what to improve. The role focuses on building systems, tooling, and processes that the wider engineering team relies on, with ownership from idea to production.