Senior Platform Engineer

YouLend; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

YouLend is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure. The role involves designing systems, building CI/CD pipelines, and enabling self-service deployments. Join a recognized award-winning workplace that values diversity and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Stock Options

Private Medical insurance

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

Modern office space in Central London

Free Gym

Subsidised Lunch

Deliveroo Allowance

Monthly in office Masseuse

Team Socials

Football Power League / Paddle Club

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Experienced in designing large-scale cloud solutions.
• Proficiency in building CI/CD pipelines and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and Kubernetes.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and enforce platform standards.
• Collaborate on deployment tooling and security.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Containerisation

Bash

Python

TypeScript

GitOps

Job description

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in building scalable infrastructure and deployment systems across YouLend’s cloud ecosystem. You will be responsible for standardising infrastructure as code, improving developer workflows, contributing to CI/CD design, and enabling self-service deployment models through automation and governance. This role is part of the Architecture Team within the Platform group.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and Kubernetes
• Build and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Define and enforce platform standards across environments (dev, staging, prod)
• Collaborate with developers and DevOps on deployment tooling and security
• Enable platform observability using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and CloudWatch
• Maintain Helm charts and Terraform modules for shared infrastructure
• Contribute to onboarding documentation and platform adoption practices
• Participate in incident response and postmortem analysis, where applicable

Essential Skills

• Strong experience with Terraform, Pulumi and Helm in multi-account AWS environments
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, Control Tower, Transfer Family, Transit Gateway, Multi-account hosted zones, etc.) with practical experience in designing large-scale cloud solutions.
• Proven software engineering experience (any language) and willingness to learn C#, TypeScript, Python
• Proven full-stack engineering experience (front end, backend, APIs, databases)
• Proficient in Kubernetes (EKS preferred), including RBAC, autoscaling, and Helm-based deployment
• Solid experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, etc.)
• Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and secure image management
• Scripting or programming experience in Bash, Python, or TypeScript
• Strong understanding of GitOps practices and infrastructure lifecycle management

Desirable Skills

• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Fluent Bit)
• Knowledge of admission controllers, OPA/Gatekeeper (optional for governance)
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimisation and Kubernetes scaling strategies
• Exposure to security scanning tools (tfsec, Trivy, Snyk)
• Interest in mentoring and platform evangelism within the wider engineering team

Why join YouLend?

• Award-Winning Workplace:YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work 2024 and 2025” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
• Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.

We offer comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Stock Options
• Private Medical insurance via Vitality and dental with BUPA
• EAP with Health Assured
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
• Free Gym in office building in Holborn
• Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
• Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
• Monthly in office Masseuse
• Team and Company Socials
• Football Power League / Paddle Club