Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud-Native & DevSecOps

PayPoint; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday purchase scheme

On-site gym

Private medical insurance

Contributory pension scheme

Life assurance cover

Corporate gym membership

Job summary

PayPoint in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our core platform. This hybrid role requires expertise in platform engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, with responsibilities including establishing platform standards and driving improvements.

You will collaborate with product teams and drive technical direction, while mentoring fellow engineers within a supportive work environment. Enjoy comprehensive benefits including a holiday purchase scheme and private medical insurance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps within a distributed cloud environment.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerised workloads, ideally in managed environments such as AKS.
• Proven experience designing and operating scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Owning and evolving the core platform infrastructure ensuring scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Defining and enforcing platform standards and best practices.
• Driving platform strategy and roadmap in collaboration with engineering leadership.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Linux systems administration

Infrastructure as code

GitOps practices

Communication skills

Tools

Helm

Azure

PowerShell

Python

Job description

PayPoint in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our core platform. This hybrid role requires expertise in platform engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, with responsibilities including establishing platform standards and driving improvements.

You will collaborate with product teams and drive technical direction, while mentoring fellow engineers within a supportive work environment. Enjoy comprehensive benefits including a holiday purchase scheme and private medical insurance.