Senior Platform Engineer - Fintech (Hybrid, Equity & Bonus)

KDR Talent Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

KDR Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a fintech-focused role in London, hybrid working. You will build and evolve cloud infrastructure (AWS), work with Kubernetes and serverless tech, and automate deployment with IaC tools, shaping platform engineering across the business.

You will improve CI/CD pipelines, tooling, and developer experience while driving observability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency as the team grows.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Experience with Kubernetes or containerised production environments.
• In-depth Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong focus on observability, reliability and production engineering.
• Ability to automate infrastructure and engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve cloud infrastructure primarily within AWS.
• Work with Kubernetes, containers and serverless technologies.
• Implement infrastructure through code using Terraform, OpenTofu or AWS CDK.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Create self-service tooling and paved roads for engineers.
• Improve developer experience across the engineering organisation.
• Build observability into the platform using Datadog, Grafana or OpenTelemetry.
• Improve reliability, scalability, security and cloud cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with Software Engineers and take ownership from idea to production.
• Influence platform architecture and engineering standards as the company scales.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Automation

Security

Cloud networking

Platform engineering mindset

Ownership

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS CDK

Job description

KDR Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a fintech-focused role in London, hybrid working. You will build and evolve cloud infrastructure (AWS), work with Kubernetes and serverless tech, and automate deployment with IaC tools, shaping platform engineering across the business.

You will improve CI/CD pipelines, tooling, and developer experience while driving observability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency as the team grows.