At a Glance
- Tasks: Own and enhance production platforms, ensuring reliability and scalability.
- Company: Leading engineering-focused tech company with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, performance bonuses, equity, and private healthcare.
- Other info: High levels of ownership and autonomy with opportunities for career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on high-performance systems and drive engineering excellence.
- Qualifications: Experience in cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and strong Linux knowledge.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
- Senior Platform Engineer
- London
- £150,000 - £200,000 Base + Bonus + Equity
We’re partnered with an engineering‑led technology company seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale the infrastructure, tooling and operational foundations that enable their exceptional engineering team to operate at a high level, maintaining the majority market share in their space.
This is a high‑impact role with broad ownership across production infrastructure, observability, developer experience, deployment workflows, security and internal tooling.
You’ll play a key role in improving how the engineering organisation operates, helping teams move faster while maintaining reliability, performance and security.
The environment is highly collaborative, low on hierarchy and built around ownership.
This role will be trusted to strategically identify problems, drive solutions and influence how the organisation operates.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Skills & Experience
- 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.
Benefits
- Lucrative Performance‑based bonus.
- Equity package with significant long‑term upside.
- Private healthcare.
- UK visa sponsorship available.
- 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.
- Exposure to complex, large‑scale production systems.
Interested?
Contact Chris Williams with any questions.
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