Senior Platform Engineer: Build Reliable Cloud Pipelines

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

Job summary

Global is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape scalable and reliable systems across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and hosting environments. You’ll work on automation and tooling using Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform to support business-critical platforms.

You’ll lead engineering best practices, improve deployment processes, and mentor teammates while collaborating across the Technology department to keep systems robust and maintainable.

Qualifications

• Experience solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems.
• Strong coding and automation capabilities across SDLC.
• Understanding of system architecture and end-to-end thinking.
• Experience with infrastructure testing and quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub.
• Lead code reviews and promote engineering best practices in security, performance, and testing.
• Improve observability, respond to production alerts, and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Platform engineering

Automation skills

Systems thinking

Quality engineering mindset

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub

Terraform

Python

Go

Java/Groovy

Job description

Global is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape scalable and reliable systems across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and hosting environments. You’ll work on automation and tooling using Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform to support business-critical platforms.

You’ll lead engineering best practices, improve deployment processes, and mentor teammates while collaborating across the Technology department to keep systems robust and maintainable.