Senior Platform Engineer | London, UK

YouLend; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

YouLend recherche un Senior Platform Engineer pour jouer un rôle essentiel dans la création d'une infrastructure évolutive et de systèmes de déploiement au sein de leur écosystème cloud. Ce poste inclut l'automatisation des modèles de déploiement, l'amélioration des flux de travail des développeurs et la contribution à la conception CI/CD, le tout dans un environnement dynamique et innovant.

Benefits

Stock Options

Private Medical insurance

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

Free Gym in office building

Subsidised Lunch

Monthly in office Masseuse

Qualifications

• Expérience solide avec Terraform, AWS, et Kubernetes.
• Capacité à concevoir des solutions cloud à grande échelle.
• Expérience en développement de logiciels et en CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Concevoir et mettre en œuvre l'infrastructure à l'aide de Terraform et Kubernetes.
• Gérer et construire des pipelines CI/CD.
• Collaborer avec les équipes de développement sur les outils de déploiement.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Docker

Bash

Python

TypeScript

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.

Requirements
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

Benefits

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

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