Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer | £100,000 - £120,000 | Hybrid (London)

The Mission

• Cut dev-to-production lead time with seamless CI/CD and preview environments
• Design "Golden Path" workflows so engineers ship features, not config files
• Auto-scale GCP infrastructure to handle Black Friday and January travel peaks
• Champion SRE practices - define SLOs and error budgets for the booking flow
• Architect data-sync pipelines with GDPR-compliant PII masking for dev environments
• Operationalise Vertex AI and Redis to power personalised search and dynamic pricing

The Tech Stack

We'll consider strong candidates from AWS or Azure backgrounds - GCP is where you'll operate. The must-haves are:

Kubernetes (GKE) · Docker · Terraform · PHP (Symfony/Drupal) · JavaScript · Go · Cloud SQL/MySQL · Redis · Nginx · Cloud Load Balancing · Varnish · CDNs · Cloudflare

Bonus: GCP, BigQuery, Apigee, Vertex AI

• Proven leadership of Platform, DevOps, or SRE teams in high-volume e-commerce, travel, or fintech
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration experience with PHP/React workloads
• Strong cloud fundamentals (IAM, VPCs, networking) - transferable from AWS or Azure to GCP
• Scripting fluency in Bash, Python, or Go
• Experience managing high-traffic SQL databases and Redis caching strategies
• A track record of data anonymisation workflows and dev-environment seeding

• £100,000 - £120,000 salary
• Hybrid working (minimum 3 days in our London office) with flexible hours
• Enhanced pension plan & life and critical illness insurance
• Medicash health plan
• Season ticket loan & cycle scheme
• Supplier social events
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