Zopa

Platform Engineer

Zopa
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22 days ago
London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Own delivery of cloud infrastructure and migration projects.
  • Build and improve infrastructure-as-code, containers, and cloud automation.
  • Work with engineers to understand their needs and improve developer experience.
  • Make platform services secure, reliable, observable, and maintainable.
  • Apply AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD patterns.
  • Contribute to shared standards, documentation, code reviews, and continuous improvement.
  • Support business-critical services through a shared on-call rota.

Requirements

  • Practical cloud experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another major cloud environment.
  • Experience with containers such as Kubernetes or ECS.
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally with Terraform or a comparable tool.
  • Experience contributing to CI/CD and reliable software delivery.
  • Ability to take ownership of projects with support and work through ambiguity.
  • Collaborative approach to enabling application engineers and improving their experience.
  • Evidence of quality thinking across reliability, maintainability, security, and operational readiness.
  • Experience participating in an on-call rota or supporting production services.
  • Bonus experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, service discovery, secrets management, networking, monitoring, scripting, or observability tooling such as Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Splunk.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role requiring two to three days per week at the Manchester office.
  • Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days per year, subject to having the right to work in the chosen country.
  • Dog-friendly Manchester office and support for flexible ways of working.
  • Workplace diversity, inclusion, and reasonable-adjustment support.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmKubernetesPrometheusSplunkTerraform

Categories

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About Zopa

1,001-5,000 employees

Zopa is a UK digital bank offering personal loans, credit cards, and fixed-term savings for consumers, funded by customer deposits. Founded in 2005 as the first peer-to-peer lender, it launched Zopa Bank in 2020 and is headquartered in London. It is privately held and offers FSCS-protected savings accounts for UK customers.

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