Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Zopa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

London office 2-3 days a week

Remote work up to 120 days abroad

Job summary

Zopa is seeking a senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams, focusing on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD practices.

You will partner with engineers to deliver safe, maintainable platform solutions, strengthen observability and resilience, and participate in the on-call rota to support business-critical services. This hybrid London role offers flexible working patterns.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments.
• Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience.
• Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions, and reusable-pipeline thinking.
• Experience with logging and monitoring, networking and protocols, scripting, secrets management and service discovery.
• Exposure to both AWS and Kubernetes, with sound coding experience.
• Evidence of designing secure, reliable and maintainable platform solutions.
• Autonomous delivery and constructive collaboration with application engineers.
• Experience supporting business-critical services through an on-call rota.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams.
• Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and operational patterns.
• Partner with engineers to understand needs and make safe, maintainable choices.
• Take ownership of work from problem definition through delivery and learning.
• Strengthen observability, resilience, security and incident readiness.
• Help build reusable tooling, guardrails and self-service foundations.
• Contribute to platform standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and DevX.
• Support business-critical services through the shared on-call rota.

Skills

AWS platform engineering

Kubernetes/EKS

Docker

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Logging & monitoring

Networking

Scripting

Secrets management

Service discovery

On-call support

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Zopa is seeking a senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams, focusing on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD practices.

You will partner with engineers to deliver safe, maintainable platform solutions, strengthen observability and resilience, and participate in the on-call rota to support business-critical services. This hybrid London role offers flexible working patterns.