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Zopa is a fintech company that launched Zopa Bank in 2020, reimagining banking by putting customers first and challenging conventional finance. The company has grown to nearly 50 nationalities and was named in the top three UK's Most Loved Workplaces.
The Cloud Infrastructure team sits within Zopa's Platform Tribe alongside DBA and DevX colleagues. This team builds the foundations that enable engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure products with confidence. The organization is undergoing a meaningful transformation: moving from infrastructure primarily operated for teams toward a self-service platform that engineers can use directly through clear capabilities.
In this Senior Platform Engineer role, you will design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams. You'll improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational patterns. You'll partner with engineers to understand their needs and help them make safe, maintainable technical choices. You'll take ownership of work from problem definition through delivery and learning, strengthening observability, resilience, security, and incident readiness across the platform. You'll help build reusable tooling, guardrails, and self-service foundations that scale across teams, contribute to platform standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA, and DevX, and support business-critical services through a shared on-call rotation.
This is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days per week in the London office, with the option to work from abroad for up to 120 days per year (subject to right to work). Zopa values flexible working and work-life balance.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments
- Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform, and Helm experience
- Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions, with reusable-pipeline thinking
- 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
- Autonomous delivery and constructive collaboration with application engineers
- Experience supporting business-critical services through an on-call rotation
ADDED BONUS:
- Experience with Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, including SLO-led practices
- Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve quality and productivity
