Senior Platform Engineer

Moneysupermarket Group
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
ARM
Automation of Tests
DevOps
Programming Tools
Github
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Datadog
Cloudformation
Software Coding
Terraform
Serverless Computing
Artifactory

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is the team that empowers our engineers to do the above.

You'll help shape and evolve our internal platform, with a big focus on developer tooling and developer experience. Your work will make life easier for hundreds of engineers, helping teams move faster, safer, and with more confidence., * Creating and maintaining tools that support the full software development lifecycle

  • Tools we use include GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Cortex, ReTool, Datadog
  • Developing shared, agentic engineering capabilities that help teams ship customer value faster
  • Building serverless tooling and guardrails that give teams freedom without chaos
  • Improving our build, test, deploy and monitoring setup - always looking for better ways
  • Helping keep our AWS environments secure, observable and reliable
  • Spotting opportunities to improve things through automation, documentation, or better ways of working
  • Challenging assumptions (including our own) and raising the bar on how good our platform can be

Requirements

We're not expecting perfection. If most of this sounds like you, you'll probably enjoy the role.

  • Solid experience with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
  • Someone who really cares about DevOps and developer experience
  • You focus on solving the right problems, not just writing code for the sake of it
  • Strong understanding of platform engineering and how product teams actually ship software
  • You think about architecture, scalability, and reliability as part of everyday engineering, * Written production software in TypeScript
  • Picked up an AWS certification
  • Worked across other IT areas (networking, firewalls, identity, directories)
  • Invested in test automation and quality from the start
  • Owned systems and cared deeply about their performance and uptime
  • Helped mentor or support more junior engineers
  • Enjoy explaining technical ideas clearly - and listening to feedback too

Most importantly:

  • You enjoy learning
  • You want your work to have real impact
  • You like collaborating with people who care about what they build

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