Platform Foundations Engineer – Cloud Infra & FinOps

FinOps Weekly

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Salary and equity compensation

Stock options

Medical, dental, vision, and life

Annual wellness allowance

Daily lunch and dinner in the office

22 weeks of paid parental leave UK

Unlimited paid time off (US)

30 days paid time off (UK)

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to join the Platform Foundations team in London. You will own the shared infrastructure layer, enabling reliable, scalable developer tooling and cost-aware cloud usage.

You will work across engineering and research to solve complex infra problems and improve delivery at scale. Responsibilities include building secure defaults, designing networking foundations, establishing observability, and owning CI/CD and build systems.

Qualifications

Experience delivering production systems in infrastructure or platform engineering.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, networking, security, or developer tooling.
Ability to operate across multi-team environments and troubleshoot complex infra issues.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain standard approaches for cloud projects, networking, and access patterns.
Build secure defaults and guardrails guiding teams toward recommended paths.
Design and operate networking foundations: routing, DNS, load balancers, connectivity.
Establish baseline observability and operational practices across services.
Own developer infrastructure: build systems, CI/CD, caching, test infra.
Improve cloud cost visibility and reduce spend with tooling and guardrails.
Support the broader foundations platform with scalable infra and SRE capabilities.