Platform Engineer in City of Westminster

Our newly formed Platform Engineering Group is building the golden paths that the engineering teams behind our enterprise cloud products will use to build, ship, and run their software. We’re looking for an engineer to join this group and help build it out – someone who will design and build the internal tooling and pipelines that make the right way the easy way. This is a hands‑on, pattern‑setting role – you’ll be helping shape our future direction.

About Smart Communications: Smart Communications is the trusted choice for regulated enterprises looking to modernize complex processes and connect with customers in the moments that matter most. Our Conversation Cloud™ platform powers frictionless, compliant, digital‑first experiences through omnichannel communications, intelligent data capture, and secure digital archival.

Who are you? You might be a Platform Engineer today, or a software engineer who has gravitated toward improving how other engineers work—local development, testing, CI/CD, release. Either way, you think of developer experience as a product, with internal engineers as your users. You're a capable software engineer with real depth in at least one language, and you have considered opinions about stacks, tooling, and trade‑offs – opinions you can defend and, just as importantly, change. You treat testing as a first‑class part of how software gets shipped. You're fluent with testing frameworks and approaches – unit, integration, contract – and you can reason about test architecture as a deliberate design problem, not an afterthought. You're comfortable building both the tooling (internal apps, templates, scaffolding) and the pipelines underneath it. You don’t need to be an infrastructure expert but you're fluent enough with cloud infrastructure to build pipelines that hold up in production. You're a continuous learner, constantly looking for where automation can make things safer, faster, and less painful. You can work directly with engineers, architects, and other stakeholders—surfacing your own ideas, taking pushback well, and iterating toward solutions that deliver real value for the effort involved.

What we’re looking for:

• Must have skills / experience:
• Strong software engineering skills, with demonstrated depth in at least one language
• Strong grounding in testing – frameworks, architecture, and approaches across unit, integration, and contract
• Experience building and running containerised workloads in production
• Experience with IaC – one or more of CloudFormation/CDK, Terraform, Pulumi
• Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building tooling or automation that other engineers depend on
• Strong communication skills
• A track record of working effectively with engineers and stakeholders outside your immediate team

• Advantageous skills / experience:
• Hands‑on experience in an environment practicing genuine continuous release
• Automated release processes and progressive delivery
• Experience instrumenting production systems for observability
• AWS
• GitHub Actions

Benefits and Compensation: Salary will depend on your experience and will be highly competitive. In addition to a friendly and fun working environment, we provide a range of benefits, including extensive health insurance, income protection, life assurance, subsidised gym membership, leisure travel insurance, pension contribution and 25 days’ holiday allowance plus an additional day off for your birthday. Our offices are located in Covent Garden, comfortable, flexible, and always stocked with free beverages and fresh fruit. The role is a hybrid setup with occasional work from the office required.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Please note: we only consider applicants with current legal right to work in the countries in which our positions are based. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status or gender identity.