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

Zopa Bank Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

London office 2–3 days a week

Job summary

Zopa Bank Limited is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design and evolve our cloud platform. You will work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines to deliver reliable, secure infrastructure used by engineering teams.

You will partner with engineers, own work end-to-end, and help strengthen observability and incident readiness while contributing to platform standards and reusable tooling. This role is hybrid, based in London with some on-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering in production.
• Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience.
• Strong CI/CD experience, especially GitHub Actions.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and service observability.
• Exposure to both AWS and Kubernetes with solid coding ability.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Observability

Networking

Scripting

Secrets management

Service discovery

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Splunk

Honeycomb

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Honeycomb

Splunk

Job description

Zopa Bank Limited is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design and evolve our cloud platform. You will work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines to deliver reliable, secure infrastructure used by engineering teams.

You will partner with engineers, own work end-to-end, and help strengthen observability and incident readiness while contributing to platform standards and reusable tooling. This role is hybrid, based in London with some on-site collaboration.