Senior Platform Engineer

Platform engineering gets interesting when a bad infrastructure decision can affect real money moving in real time.

You’ll own significant pieces of the platform underneath the engineering team, from Terraform and environment provisioning through to CI/CD, observability and internal developer tooling. There’s a defined backlog to attack, but not layers of process telling you how to execute it.

This isn’t a role for someone who’s only operated inside a platform that was already mature. They need someone who’s built or materially improved infrastructure themselves, can safely make production changes with a high degree of independence, and likes creating tooling that makes every other engineer faster.

What you’ll be working on:

• Owning infrastructure-as-code across networking, IAM, VPCs and environment provisioning, including an ongoing Terraform migration
• Hardening CI/CD, secrets management and self-service deployment tooling
• Building internal abstractions and tooling that let product engineers ship without becoming infrastructure experts
• Expanding observability across service instrumentation, metrics collection, monitoring and alerting
• Supporting production cloud infrastructure and reliability across messaging systems
• Building tooling around compliance, access controls and infrastructure remediation
• Improving developer onboarding, local development workflows, cloud cost visibility and infrastructure documentation

• 5+ years across platform, infrastructure or backend engineering, with substantial production infrastructure ownership
• Strong Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or comparable infrastructure-as-code experience
• Production experience with GCP, AWS or Azure, with GCP particularly relevant
• Experience building CI/CD and internal developer tooling, rather than simply using an established platform
• Kubernetes, ECS or similar container orchestration experience
• Backend engineering ability in a language such as Go, Python or TypeScript
• Hands-on knowledge of observability tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus or OpenTelemetry
• A strong understanding of IAM, secrets management and secure-by-default infrastructure
• Comfort making production infrastructure changes independently in a small engineering team

Where you’ll stand out

Experience in payments, FinTech or another regulated environment will translate particularly well. The same goes for engineers who’ve built compliance-focused platform tooling, worked across GCP and AWS, or supported infrastructure through rapid transaction or engineering-team growth.

Storm2’s client is a payments infrastructure FinTech processing billions of dollars in annual transaction volume. Their APIs power real-time transfers, bank debits and card disbursements for FinTech, banking and marketplace businesses, so reliability and compliance are built into the infrastructure rather than bolted on later.

They’re growing a lean infrastructure team and need another engineer who can take meaningful ownership without relying on a mature platform organisation around them.