Platform Engineer
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Platform Engineer
Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]
Location: London
Work Type: Hybrid (2-3 days a week in office)
Job Type: Full-time
Experience Level: Mid-Senior level
Salary: £40,000 - £120,000 per annum
About the Role
Developer Experience (DevX) is the heart of engineering productivity at [Employer hidden]. We are a high-impact squad of 6 engineers who treat our internal platform as a product, and our fellow [Employer hidden] engineers as our customers. Our mission is to build the tools that let every product engineer maintain compliance whilst having a world-class experience in shipping their code. We are currently starting a landmark project migrating our entire Fintech infrastructure from self-hosted Jenkins to a SaaS-based GitHub Actions platform. You will work across a modern stack including Go, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault Honeycomb and DX. As a Senior DevX Engineer, your focus isn't on deploying software for teams, fixing their pipelines, or troubleshooting incidents; you are architecting the future of how [Employer hidden] builds software. You will spend 50-80% of your time writing high-quality code to build internal CLI tools, automation providers, and self-service platforms. The rest of your day is spent as a strategic consultant and leader. You’ll be: Architecting the Platform Evolution: Designing the templates and workflows that will move hundreds of microservices onto GitHub Actions. Stakeholder Engagement: Meeting with product squads to identify friction points and writing technical RFCs to solve them. Data-Driven Optimization: Analyzing DORA/DX metrics to prove that your tools have increased delivery experience (speed, stability, flow). Mentoring: Levelling up our mid-level and associate engineers through pairing and high-standard code reviews.
Who you are
- Programming Knowledge: You'll spend time writing high-quality Go code to build APIs, CLIs, tools and automation providers, but we are open to anyone with a deep knowledge of a similar language (Java, Kotlin, .Net)
- Platform Visionary: You don’t just "deploy stuff for people"; you build the self-service platforms that allow people to easily deploy stuff for themselves
- CI/CD Specialist: Deep, production-level experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins is essential. You’ve ideally navigated a migration between the two before
- Infrastructure Native: You are a power user of Kubernetes and AWS (including Lambdas). You understand the "why" behind the architecture, not just the "how."
- Proactive Communicator: You are comfortable presenting to stakeholders, writing clear documentation, and acting as the "face" of the DevX team
- The "Product" Mindset: You have experience with measuring success based on quantitative and qualitative metrics (developer sentiment, speed, cost), not by tickets closed
Desirable
- Languages: Advanced-level Go would be ideal but not mandatory. Familiarity with Java, Kotlin, or .NET is a plus
- Orchestration: Advanced Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Terraform
- Tooling: Experience with Vault, Knative, and observability tools like Splunk, and Honeycomb
- Metrics: A track record of using data to drive engineering improvements (Platforms like GetDX or LinearB)
- Experience in high-growth startups or tech-first organizations
- Contributions to open-source DevX or CNCF projects
Salary Benchmarks
DevOps & Infrastructure
Senior: £40k - £120k
Company Benefits
2-3 days a week in the office. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance.
You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one (*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice)
On top of regular bank holidays, you’ll get 25 days holiday as standard, rising up to 30 days as your tenure grows. For any teams that operate on a bank holiday, you may be offered an alternative day off.
As a Zopian, you can opt into our private medical insurance through Vitality Health. This’ll give you access to private medical care, discounted gym memberships, and other rewards such as savings at various retailers for maintaining an active lifestyle. You also get free Headspace access to help with the all-important mindfulness we need
16-weeks full pay for all new parents. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay to employees wishing to start a family. New parents, including those adopting, are eligible to take up to 16-weeks leave at full pay.