Senior Platform Engineer

About GSS

Hello. Welcome to GSS! We're transforming the global financial system with cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence and collaboration with top financial institutions. Our platform sets new standards in compliance screening for sanctions, making international payments faster, smoother, and friction-free. Join us in revolutionising the industry and making a real impact!

About the Role

Join our dynamic Platform Engineer team as a Senior Platform Engineer! We have big ambitions to deliver secure, large-scale and highly reliable systems to our customers by building platforms through code and automation. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Cloud Platform Engineer who has experience deploying and owning AWS within an Enterprise environment, championing infrastructure as code and automation. Security is a cornerstone of our platform, and therefore experience of securing AWS across the entire platform is essential. This is a super exciting role and a great time to join our growing start-up. Plus, enjoy a collaborative, flexible, and innovative work culture where your ideas are valued.

What You’ll Do

• Build out platform services, leveraging infrastructure code
• Build automation pipelines to automate the deployment of code
• Work with platform lead and cloud architects to define and implement standards across our platforms
• Work with the security team to implement security and governance controls on our platform

Ideal Experience

Essential

• Working with Cloud within an Enterprise, including highly-secure and governed environments
• In-depth knowledge of AWS, specifically around Landing Zone tooling & platform engineering.
• Experience and expertise in: AWS Control Tower, AWS EC2, AWS EKS, Terraform, AWS access controls (SCP, IAM Roles, IAM Boundary policies), CI/CD pipeline automation, AWS networking and DNS, AWS S3, and AWS RDS
• 5+ years’ experience in a platform engineering role
• Experience with Helm, unit and behaviour driven development in Terraform, Github action, event-driven services in AWS, are a bonus.
• Experienced with and advocate of pair programming

Good to have:

• TDD and/or BDD for Infrastructure as Code
• Experience of Agile ways of working
• Experience working in a payments organization or financial services
• SRE experience will be beneficial

Personal competencies:

• Highly collaborative, quickly builds trust and respect
• Good stakeholder management skills and relationship building skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Pragmatic thinking, able to balance short term and long-term priorities
• Proactive issue and risk management approach
• Ability to understand complex technical issues involving the complex interaction of several systems
• Flexibility able to adapt to rapidly changing situations
• Attention to detail
• Delivery focused, and results driven

What You Get in Return:

• Impactful Work: Be part of a growing startup where your contributions make a real difference.
• Generous Leave: Enjoy 30 days of holiday (plus bank holidays).
• Comprehensive Benefits: Including a generous pension scheme, private medical insurance, and life assurance.
• Wellbeing Perks: Access to EAP, YuLife, holistic wellbeing programs, and a Virtual GP for your health and happiness.
• Flexibility: We are open to both hybrid and remote working for this role.
• Learning: Access to Udemy, a learning platform with thousands of top-rated courses to develop both tech and business skills.

Ready to revolutionise finance and have fun doing it? Join GSS where we live by our values: Be Respectful, Be Bold and Take Ownership. Come join us and take your career to new heights!

Diversity statement: We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.