Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanaticsfbg is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team in London. You will work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling to improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.

You will collaborate with Product Engineering, Security, and IT to define standards and drive platform excellence. You will own medium-to-large platform projects, build internal services, and mentor engineers while

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Proficiency with Python and Java.
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge.
• Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience.
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform).
• Strong AWS and cloud-native experience.
• Experience operating distributed, high‑availability systems.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver defined projects independently.
• Clear communication and strong collaboration skills.
• Backend development experience (Java, Python, Go, or similar).
• Familiarity with observability and reliability engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver medium-to-large platform projects from implementation through production
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling that improve developer experience and delivery velocity
• Partner with application teams to unblock delivery and align platform capabilities with developer needs
• Drive cloud cost efficiency and optimization across our cloud and infrastructure
• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, and incident response
• Help evolve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response

Skills

Python

Java

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

AWS

Distributed systems

Observability

Incident response

On-call

Backend dev

Cloud-native

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Fanaticsfbg is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team in London. You will work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling to improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.

You will collaborate with Product Engineering, Security, and IT to define standards and drive platform excellence. You will own medium-to-large platform projects, build internal services, and mentor engineers while