1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams.
- Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational patterns.
- Partner with engineers to understand platform needs and make safe, maintainable technical choices.
- Own work from problem definition through delivery and learning.
- Build reusable tooling, guardrails, and self-service platform foundations.
- Contribute to platform standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA, and DevX.
- Support business-critical services through a shared on-call rota.
- Strengthen observability, resilience, security, and incident readiness.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments.
- Practical experience with Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform, and Helm.
- Strong CI/CD experience, particularly with GitHub Actions and reusable pipeline design.
- Experience with logging and monitoring, networking and protocols, scripting, secrets management, and service discovery.
- Exposure to both AWS and Kubernetes with sound coding experience.
- Evidence of designing secure, reliable, and maintainable platform solutions.
- Ability to deliver autonomously and collaborate constructively with application engineers.
- Experience supporting business-critical services through an on-call rota.
- Experience with Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, and SLO-led practices is a bonus.
- Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve quality and productivity is a bonus.
Benefits
- Hybrid working requiring attendance at the London office two to three days per week.
- Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days per year, subject to having the right to work in the chosen country.
- Work-life balance and support for working effectively from the office and home.
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About Zopa
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.