Platform Engineer
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Job description
We're looking for an exceptional Platform Engineer to join Definely during a pivotal stage of growth. Platform Engineers get involved with the whole product infrastructure and tooling, building out novel and scalable solutions for engineers and customers. We're also responsible for reliability, security and automation., The work we do in platform is broad and deep, but in a normal week you'll be involved in:
- Operational work to keep our systems running smoothly. Respond to issues and perform maintenance and upgrades to our systems
- Keeping our CI/CD system running well and ensuring safe and simple deployments for our engineers
- Build our platform to support product needs (i.e. provisioning databases, enhancing tooling, scaling)
- Operating our cloud environments (mostly AWS) through IaC and automation
- Supporting, and sometimes leading, projects of improvement to our platform
- Working collaboratively with other engineers and the wider business
Requirements
- 1-3 years of hands on platform experience
- Knowledge of Cloud tools and services (AWS is our primary cloud)
- Understanding of DevOps and operational workflows
- Building and maintaining cloud services through IaC (we use Terraform)
- CI/CD practices and tooling
We'll be lucky if you:
- Have experience with security products and tooling, and some DevSecOps experience
- Have been on call for incident response
- Deep experience with data platforms (databases, queues, caches, storage etc.)
- ML/AI experience
Benefits & conditions
- Competitive salary & annual bonus
- Share options
- Quarterly team socials & annual company offsite
- Hybrid working + 1 month "work from anywhere"
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Take your birthday off
- £750 annual learning & development budget
- Private healthcare (incl. dental & optical)
- Enhanced parental leave
- Additional perks: Cycle to Work, Workplace Nursery salary sacrifice scheme, and top-quality equipment
About Definely
Definely is revolutionising how legal professionals access and understand information in complex documents. Our LegalTech solutions integrate directly into legal workflows, enabling teams to draft, review, and interpret contracts more efficiently, without breaking focus.
We're proud to be recognised among the Top 25 in Deloitte's UK Technology Fast 50 and backed by Revaia, Microsoft, Google, and Octopus Ventures. Trusted by top firms like A&O Shearman, Dentons, Deloitte, and Barclays, we're building tools that empower legal teams to work smarter and reduce risk.
At Definely, you'll be part of a mission-driven, collaborative, and ambitious team committed to innovation and growth.
