Senior Platform Engineer New London

Platform Engineering at Capital on Tap. We’re Capital on Tap, founded with the mission to help small business owners and make their lives easier. Today, we provide an all-in-one business credit card & spend management platform that helps business owners save time and money. Capital on Tap proudly serves over 200,000 businesses across the world and our goal is to help 1 million small businesses by 2030.

Location: London, Old Street | 2 Days in Office

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Provide support to multiple teams across the business function (Product Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, Security and QA).
• Build new and manage existing Azure services and resources with a focus on performance, security, scalability and resiliency in mind.
• Proactively support Platform services and tooling (TeamCity, Octopus, Azure DevOps & more).
• Create and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
• Advise internal teams on infrastructure best practices (HA), container orchestration, monitoring and cloud security.
• Help evolve our CI/CD processes to include code quality testing, security scanning, load testing and infrastructure validations.

Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly.

Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage.

Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard.

Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done.

Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback.

Requirements:

• 3+ years in Cloud/DevOps roles with experience in either Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience in at least one scripting language (Python, PowerShell, Go).
• Skilled in CI/CD tools (GitHub, Azure DevOps), containerisation, and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Experienced in building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and developer productivity tooling.
• Familiar with observability, alerting, and incident management (DataDog, Grafana) and collaborative, agile team environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor others and influence cross-team engineering culture.

Even if you don’t have all of the necessary skills, we still encourage you to apply.

Interview Process:

• First stage: 30-minute intro, CV review, and values with Talent Partner.
• Second stage: 60 minute “Tech Chat” with Team Manager.
• Final stage: 60-minute Technical Task + 60 minute Interview with Head of Platform Engineering.

Diversity & Inclusion: We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks:

• Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality.
• Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality.
• Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical).
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match.
• 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays).
• Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget.
• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Season Ticket Loan.
• 6 free therapy sessions per year.
• Dog Friendly Offices.
• Free drinks and snacks in our offices.

If you’d like to progress your career within our fast growing, profitable fintech then click apply and we will aim to get back to you within 3 working days (during busy periods this could take up to 5 working days).

At Capital on Tap we are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, ability, national origin and all the other characteristics that make us who we are. We want to be a place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come and do their best work and most importantly feel included and that they can be their authentic selves.