Senior Platform Engineer

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lucrative Performance-based bonus

Equity package with significant long‑m

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is partnering with an engineering-led technology company to recruit a Senior Platform Engineer. You will own and scale production infrastructure, improve observability, and streamline deployment workflows to empower a high-performing engineering team.

The role offers broad ownership across production platforms, security and internal tooling, with significant autonomy from day one and a strong focus on delivering reliable, high-performance systems.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production infrastructure in modern cloud environments.
• Background in Platform/SRE/Production/Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and networking fundamentals.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Experience designing monitoring and alerting solutions for production systems.
• Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the production platform for reliability and scalability.
• Enhance observability with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards and alerts.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows to enable safe, fast shipping.
• Develop internal tooling to reduce operational overhead.
• Drive automation and standardisation across the platform.
• Improve developer experience from local to production environments.
• Optimise Linux-based production environments and networking performance.
• Contribute to security, access controls and best practices.
• Identify bottlenecks and reliability risks before impacting the business.
• Help shape long-term platform strategy and engineering practices.

Skills

Platform engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Linux networking

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Issue diagnosis

High performance systems

Ownership & delivery

Communication & collaboration

Strategic platform direction

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

We're partnered with an engineering-led technology company seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale the infrastructure, tooling and operational foundations that enable their exceptional engineering team to operate at a high level, maintaining the majority market share in their space.

This is a high-impact role with broad ownership across production infrastructure, observability, developer experience, deployment workflows, security and internal tooling. You'll play a key role in improving how the engineering organisation operates, helping teams move faster while maintaining reliability, performance and security.

The environment is highly collaborative, low on hierarchy and built around ownership. This role will be trusteed to strategically identify problems, drive solutions and influence how the organisation operates.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the production platform, ensuring systems remain reliable, scalable and easy to operate.
• Build and enhance observability across the organisation through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards and alerting.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and operational processes to help engineers ship safely and efficiently.
• Develop internal tooling that reduces operational overhead and improves engineering productivity.
• Drive infrastructure automation and standardisation across the platform.
• Improve the developer experience from local development through to production.
• Optimise Linux-based production environments, networking behaviour and overall system performance.
• Contribute to infrastructure security, access controls, secrets management and operational best practices.
• Identify operational bottlenecks and reliability risks before they impact the wider organisation.
• Help define the long-term direction of the platform and establish engineering best practices.

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience operating and improving production infrastructure within modern cloud environments.
• Background in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling and infrastructure automation.
• Experience designing monitoring, observability and alerting solutions for production systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience supporting high-performance, high-throughput or latency-sensitive systems would be advantageous.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of problems and drive solutions from inception through to delivery.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Lucrative Performance-based bonus.
• Equity package with significant long-term upside.
• High levels of ownership and autonomy from day one.
• Direct influence over platform strategy, tooling and engineering practices.
• Opportunity to work alongside a highly capable, engineering-focused team.

Interested?

Contact Chris Williams with any questions.