Senior Platform Engineer

Genio; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EMI Share Options

Learning allowance

Flexible hours

Home working

Office parking

Remote work policy

Job summary

Genio is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the design and operation of its cloud infrastructure from conception to production. You will partner with squads to drive reliability, security, and cost efficiency while advancing best-practice tooling and automation across engineering teams.

You will own cloud infrastructure evolution, implement full observability, and act as a technical advisor to uplift platform capabilities, mentoring engineers and leading incident responses in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Takes ambiguous problems, defines options, and writes clear design documents.
• Strong scripting/programming in Python and/or Bash for automation.
• Proficient with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with AWS or Google Cloud cloud platforms.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters under load.
• Ownership of production service reliability and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Genio’s cloud infrastructure with scalable, secure, resilient designs.
• Improve observability with monitoring, alerts, and tracing; define SLIs/SLAs/SLAs.
• Lead incidents for PlatformOps; coordinate responses and post-incident reviews.
• Automate repetitive tasks and build scalable engineering workflows.
• Mentor engineers and upskill teams on platform tooling and DevOps practices.

Skills

Systems design

Python/Bash

Terraform

AWS/Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Reliability & Security

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Hi we’re Genio. We create beautifully simple learning tools that boost knowledge, skills, and confidence.

About the role

Career track: IC4

Unit: Shared services

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you help set the strategy for Genio’s infrastructure end-to-end — from design through to running it in production. You work with squads on feature work to advise/set direction, and ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You drive the design and implementation of best-practice cloud infrastructure, automation frameworks, and tooling that enable scalability, reliability, and efficiency for engineering teams in both business units. Working closely with engineers, testers, and data colleagues, you lead initiatives to enhance platform capabilities, optimise performance, and champion DevOps principles.

Responsibilities:

• Evolving Genio’s cloud infrastructure: Architect and optimise cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, security, and resilience. Shape long-term infrastructure strategy and apply Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD best practices.
• Maintaining and improving observability of Genio’s applications: Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing capabilities. Champion the adoption of SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs.
• Leading incidents and post-incident learning: Support as an incident lead for PlatformOps, coordinate the response, run blameless post-incident reviews, and track actions to completion.
• Driving automation of repetitive tasks: Develop scalable automation frameworks to streamline engineering workflows and improve efficiency.
• Raising the technical capability of other teams: Act as a technical advisor, provide guidance and upskilling support for platform tooling, and mentor engineers across engineering teams.

Meet the team

You will report to the Principal Platform Engineer and work most closely with:

• Principal Platform Engineer (Operations)
• Platform Engineer (Operations)
• Engineering teams in both business units
• Production Support Engineer (Operations)
• Senior Data Engineer (Operations)

About you:

Essential:

• Systems design and judgement: Takes an ambiguous problem, defines options, makes trade-offs explicit, and writes clear design documents.
• Programming Skills: Strong experience in scripting and programming with Python and/or Bash for automation and tooling.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficient with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Cloud Platforms: Strong experience with AWS or Google Cloud.
• Kubernetes in production: Experience operating, upgrading, networking, and debugging Kubernetes clusters under load.
• Reliability Engineering & Security: Proven ownership of production service reliability (defining SLIs, incident response) and implementing security practices (access control, secrets management, patching, backup/recovery).

Bonus / Nice to have:

• AI-Assisted Development: Comfortable and proficient with AI development tools as part of everyday engineering.
• Cost Awareness: Understanding of infrastructure costs and the ability to build cases for spending changes.
• Collaboration & Adaptability: Ability to mentor others, foster trust, make pragmatic technology choices, and communicate with 'passionate views, loosely held'.

Salary and benefits:

• £70,000- £76,000 per annum dependent on experience
• 33 days annual leave (Inclusive of bank holidays)
• 3 gifted days off at Christmas
• EMI Share Options Scheme
• Generous individual learning and training allowance
• Truly flexible hours to suit when you work best
• Full home working set up and beautiful collaborative office space
• Free Leeds City Centre office parking
• Nomad working policy with family travel insurance
• Enhanced 26 weeks maternity and 4 weeks paternity (fully paid)
• Health cash plan (from glasses to massages)
• 6% employer pension contribution

Location:

Our beautiful office space in Leeds is our key hub for collaboration, and we love to get together in person. We operate a flexible hybrid working model, including supporting our Genios who are based remotely across the UK. If you are more than 50 miles away from the office, we offer full remote working support, with the opportunity to join colleagues for in-person collaboration several times a year.