Senior Compute Platform Engineer: Cloud, Automation & Scale

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to architect and evolve a scalable, secure platform that serves millions of users globally. You will lead automation across AWS and Kubernetes, improve reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to raise engineering standards.

The role emphasizes cloud-native practices, strong leadership, and hands-on technical delivery across the Compute team, with impact on Wise’s fast-growing payments platform.

Responsibilities

• Architect and enhance the platform to handle high loads with reliability and security.
• Drive automation at infrastructure (AWS) and application levels to speed up deployments.
• Provide holistic system improvements to prevent scalability and reliability issues.
• Lead projects and collaborate across teams to share knowledge and improve engineering practices.
• Extend cloud-native capabilities, including operators and service mesh improvements.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Automation

Platform engineering

Tools

Cloud tooling

Job description

Wise seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to architect and evolve a scalable, secure platform that serves millions of users globally. You will lead automation across AWS and Kubernetes, improve reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to raise engineering standards.

The role emphasizes cloud-native practices, strong leadership, and hands-on technical delivery across the Compute team, with impact on Wise’s fast-growing payments platform.