Platform Reliability & Automation Engineer

Selby Jennings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is recruiting a platform engineer to join a crypto technology client based in London. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and high‑quality infrastructure with low latency and secure, observable systems.

You will own deployments, build fast developer workflows, and shape how the team operates its systems, incorporating AI tooling while upholding strong security and engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Strong cloud infrastructure and operations experience.
• Automation and CI/CD expertise.
• Observability with meaningful metrics, logs and dashboards.
• Ability to own problems end to end in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Production reliability & operations: Own stable deployments, clear rollback paths, strong system health, and efficient incident response.
• Observability & alerting: Build clear metrics, logs, tracing, and dashboards; reduce alert noise and improve issue visibility.
• Developer experience: Streamline CI/CD, testing, and deployments; automate workflows and improve tooling, configs, and secrets management.
• Infrastructure performance: Optimise low latency systems at host and network level for high performance production environments.
• AI, tooling & security: Use AI and internal tools to scale impact while maintaining strong security across infrastructure and workflows.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Automation

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Selby Jennings is recruiting a platform engineer to join a crypto technology client based in London. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and high‑quality infrastructure with low latency and secure, observable systems.

You will own deployments, build fast developer workflows, and shape how the team operates its systems, incorporating AI tooling while upholding strong security and engineering practices.