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# Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

- **Company:** Fresha
- **Location:** Greater London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3, Distributed Systems, Github, Monitoring of Systems, PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, Queueing Systems, Redis, Ruby, Next.js, Runbook, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Datadog, Data Storage Technologies, Grafana, Amazon Relational Database Service, Sentry, Apache Kafka, Front End Software Development, Terraform, AWS EKS, Docker, Elixir, Pagerduty, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840615342-senior-platform-engineer-infrastructure

## About the Role

* Have experience in software development
 * Demonstrate strong opinions and actively contribute ideas, driving discussions and solutions
 * Are deeply passionate about their work and proactively challenge existing processes to foster continuous improvement
 * Experience working with microservices and distributed systems at scale
 * Have experience with working on cross-team projects
 * Have AWS experience - we use EKS, RDS, S3, Cloudfront and MSK extensively
 * Have an understanding of SLIs, SLOs & SLAs
 * Knowledge of platform and ops concepts such as networking and Linux administration
 * Experience with monitoring tools - we use Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Sentry and OpsGenie

## Description

* Docker in production and local development
 * AWS EKS
 * Kafka for our asynchronous message queues
 * Elixir / Ruby for main services
 * NextJS/Typescript for our frontend services
 * RDS PostgreSQL for persistent data storage
 * GitHub Action as CI tool of choice - Jenkins & Argo Workflow for legacy pipelines
 * Redis for key/value store
 * Terraform for resource management, * Architecture - Define and develop the infrastructure architecture to support multi-region deployments
 * Automation - Seek out processes that can be improved with automation and have internal Developer Experience as the main driver
 * Leadership - Effectively scope and lead projects autonomously
 * Developer Experience - Extend our local development experience offerings for engineers
 * Knowledge Sharing - Enrich knowledge across the department by creating Documentation, SOPs, Runbooks and fascinating knowledge-sharing sessions
 * Observability - Extend Monitoring & Observability capabilities
 * Accessibility - Simplifying the process for engineers to access this data
 * Collaboration - Collaborate and enable engineers to do their jobs more efficiently
 * Efficiency - Developing tools to maximise engineering efficiency, such as automating the rollback of deployed applications


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