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# Senior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Understanding Recruitment
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Linux, Key Management, Networking Basics, Reliability Engineering, Data Logging, Delivery Pipeline, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2859576220-senior-platform-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong experience operating and improving production infrastructure within modern cloud environments.
 * Background in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.
 * Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals.
 * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling and infrastructure automation.
 * Experience designing monitoring, observability and alerting solutions for production systems.
 * Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
 * Experience supporting high-performance, high-throughput or latency-sensitive systems would be advantageous.
 * Demonstrated ability to take ownership of problems and drive solutions from inception through to delivery.
 * Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
 * Lucrative Performance-based bonus.
 * Equity package with significant long-term upside.
 * High levels of ownership and autonomy from day one.
 * Direct influence over platform strategy, tooling and engineering practices.
 * Opportunity to work alongside a highly capable, engineering-focused team.

## Description

* Own and improve the production platform, ensuring systems remain reliable, scalable and easy to operate.
 * Build and enhance observability across the organisation through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards and alerting.
 * Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and operational processes to help engineers ship safely and efficiently.
 * Develop internal tooling that reduces operational overhead and improves engineering productivity.
 * Drive infrastructure automation and standardisation across the platform.
 * Improve the developer experience from local development through to production.
 * Optimise Linux-based production environments, networking behaviour and overall system performance.
 * Contribute to infrastructure security, access controls, secrets management and operational best practices.
 * Identify operational bottlenecks and reliability risks before they impact the wider organisation.
 * Help define the long-term direction of the platform and establish engineering best practices.


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