Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer | Enterprise AI / FinTech | London (Onsite) | Up to £150k We're working with a fast-growing, well-funded enterprise AI company building technology for major financial institutions. Following a significant recent funding round, the business is scaling rapidly and is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to take ownership of its cloud infrastructure, DevOps, observability and compliance readiness. This is a high-impact role suited to someone who enjoys building and owning infrastructure end-to-end within a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Key responsibilities: Architect, build and maintain scalable, secure and highly available cloud infrastructureOwn and improve CI/CD pipelines across backend, frontend and data servicesDrive observability across logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and on-call processesSupport SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness and broader security/compliance initiativesManage cloud performance and costs, identifying opportunities to improve efficiencyChampion DevOps, reliability, security and operational best practices across engineering Technical environment: Azure - strong experience preferred; AWS exposure advantageousTerraform, Kubernetes/AKS, Docker and GitHub ActionsStrong understanding of networking including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, VPNs and firewallsProduction database and storage experience including PostgreSQL/MySQL/NoSQLSecurity tooling, secrets management and vulnerability scanningPython or Bash for scripting and automation Ideal background: Approximately 4–7 years of Platform, DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering experienceExperience within a startup, scale-up or high-growth/high-load environmentProven ownership of infrastructure from architecture through to production supportExperience improving reliability, security and cloud cost efficiencyExposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001 and/or GDPR environmentsComfortable operating in an ambitious environment where priorities can move quickly and expectations are high 📩 Get in touch to hear more.