Senior Platform Engineer

RVU Co UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% discretionary yearly bonus

Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5%

25 days holiday, increasing to 30 days

Private medical cover

Free breakfast in the office

Access to Calm and Peppy app

Job summary

RVU Co UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Engineering department in London. This role demands expertise in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructures, essential for supporting brands like Uswitch and Money.co.uk.

The ideal candidate will play a critical role in optimizing performance and delivering reliable systems. With a hybrid working model, the position also offers excellent benefits including health coverage, generous holiday, and a yearly bonus.

Qualifications

• Experience in running Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Knowledge of Golang, Helm, and Terraform is essential.
• Production experience with Cilium and networking is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architectural decisions and designs of the platform and systems.
• Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices.
• Mentoring and coaching engineers while sharing knowledge.

Skills

Kubernetes clusters management

Golang

Helm

Terraform

AWS Multi Accounts system

Cilium and/or eBPF knowledge

Monitoring systems

Debugging large systems

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Github Actions

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office (Tuesday/Wednesday)

We are looking for an experienced Platform/Infrastructure Engineer to join our platform team, known internally as Airship. Airship manages the infrastructure that powers Uswitch and Money.co.uk brands as well as the RVU wide AI initiative.

Our goal as a team is to enable our development teams to deliver services quickly, reliably and securely. We do this by running multiple Kubernetes EKS and Fargate clusters in AWS, creating common tooling to aid in development tasks, and running shared services such as Opensearch, Envoy, Vault and Prometheus to name a few.

We are committed to Open Source software and give back to the community by open sourcing interesting projects.

What you’ll be doing

• Excellence: work alongside established and experienced engineering teams while supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding and utilisation of modern technology.
• Collaboration: work with various cross‑functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers.
• Autonomy: authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working.
• Data Driven: utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security and reliability.
• Culture: enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch‑ups, working groups, and “All Hands”.
• Experience: enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge and expertise in a continuous learning environment.

Accountability

• Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement.
• Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems.
• Defining, evolving, and applying team processes.
• Responsible for the entire stack to meet business requirements.
• Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices.
• Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable.
• Mentoring and coaching engineers, and presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation.

Staff Platform Engineer expectations

• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation.
• Manage your time effectively between team and organisational level contributions.
• Rotate around the business to build relationships and act as a multiplier.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in running Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Knowledge of Golang, Helm, and Terraform (some knowledge of Python is definitely a plus).
• Production experience in Cilium and/or eBPF and networking in general.
• Extensive experience in monitoring systems and their performance.
• The ability to debug large and complex systems and solve large problems that affect a wide user base in a simple way.
• Experience with image vulnerability scanning and patching strategies for large systems.
• Experience / Familiarity with AWS Multi Accounts system designs tools like Crossplane and Control Tower.
• Familiarity with Argo Workflows or similar data pipeline as a service tools.
• Familiarity working with a variety of Cloud Native projects.
• Familiarity with Github Action.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry.

What we offer

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance).
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in‑office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to work from anywhere.
• Employer‑matching pension contributions up to 7.5%.
• A one‑off £300 “work from home” budget.
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy.
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year.
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme.
• A healthy learning and training budget.
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes.
• Free in‑office gym accessible 7 days a week.
• Free breakfast in the office daily.
• Equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows).
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health.
• Regular events – from team socials to company‑wide events with insightful external speakers.