Platform Engineer

Global Ltd
London, UK
2 days ago
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Role details

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

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Software as a Service Cloud Engineering Code Review Continuous Integration Distributed Systems Github Groovy Monitoring of Systems Python (Programming Language) Pair Programming
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Performance Tuning Software Engineering Systems Architecture System Availability Integration Tests Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins Golang

Job description

Join our Platform team and help shape the systems that power Global’s technology platforms. Working across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and application hosting environments, you’ll develop and improve scalable, reliable solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation. As a Senior Platform Engineer at Global, you will, Platform Engineering & Automation: Support, maintain, and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform. Technical Leadership & Best Practice: Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices across security, performance, maintainability, and testing. Contribute to technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives within the team. Operational Excellence & Collaboration: Maintain reliable production environments, improve observability and monitoring systems, and respond to proactive and reactive support alerts. Work collaboratively across the Technology department while mentoring and supporting other engineers. What You’ll Love About This Role Think Big: Work across a broad range of business-critical systems and technologies that have real impact across Global. Own It: Take responsibility for improving platform reliability, automation, and deployment processes in a modern engineering environment. Keep it Simple: Solve complex technical challenges using industry-standard tooling and scalable engineering practices. Better Together: Be part of a collaborative team culture that values code reviews, pair programming, continuous integration, learning, and knowledge sharing. What Success Looks Like In your first few months, you’ll have: Built a strong understanding of our existing build and deployment architecture Contributed improvements to technical solutions and ways of working Delivered new features, fixes, and platform enhancements Demonstrated a collaborative approach to problem-solving and delivery Shared knowledge with the team while continuing to develop new skills

Requirements

Platform & Cloud Engineering Experience: Strong experience solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems, with exposure to AWS and Kubernetes environments Software Development & Automation Skills: Experience working across the full software development lifecycle with strong coding and automation capabilities Systems Thinking: Understanding of system architecture and the ability to think end-to-end across platforms and services Quality Engineering Mindset: Experience writing well-tested, maintainable, secure, and performant code, including infrastructure testing (e.g. Terraform Testing, BDD-style integration tests) Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in multi-tenant environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities

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