Senior Platform Engineer
Zopa · London, England ·
Overview As a Cloud Platform Engineer within Zopas Platform Tribe, you design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities to empower engineering teams. You will improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational patterns, partnering with engineers to deliver safe, maintainable solutions.
Your work strengthens observability, resilience, security, and incident readiness, while building reusable tooling and self-service foundations. This role offers hands-on ownership from problem definition to delivery in a mission-driven culture that values collaboration and impact.
You will help shape standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and DevX in a growing platform ecosystem. Pay / Benefits hybrid role with London office 2-3 days option to work from abroad up to 120 days a year focus on work-life balance diversity and inclusion emphasis Responsibilities Design and evolve cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and operational patterns Partner with engineers to understand needs and enable safe, maintainable decisions Own work from problem definition through delivery and learning Strengthen observability, resilience, security and incident readiness Build reusable tooling, guardrails and self-service foundations Contribute to platform standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and DevX Support business-critical services through the on-call rota Key requirements Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience Strong CI/CD experience, especially GitHub Actions, with reusable-pipeline thinking Experience with logging, monitoring, networking, scripting, secrets management and service discovery Exposure to AWS and Kubernetes with solid 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 rota autonomous delivery constructive collaboration partnership with engineers AWS Kubernetes / EKS Docker