Summary
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A senior platform engineering role focused on cloud infrastructure, application hosting, CI/CD, and automation. You will maintain and enhance reliable platforms, develop tooling, lead code reviews, promote engineering standards, and improve security, performance, testing, and maintainability across the environment.
Highlights
Improve scalable and reliable cloud platforms, lead engineering best practices, build automation tooling, and contribute to security, performance, maintainability, and continuous improvement.
Description
Accepting Applications Until
16 October 2026
Job Description
Your Role: Senior Platform Engineer
Join our Platform team and help shape the systems that power Global’s technology platforms.
Working across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and application hosting environments, you’ll develop and improve scalable, reliable solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Global, you will:
Platform Engineering & Automation: Support, maintain, and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub.
Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform.
Technical Leadership & Best Practice: Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices across security, performance, maintainability, and testing.
Contribute to technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
Operational Excellence & Collaboration: Maintain reliable production environments, improve observability and monitoring systems, and respond to proactive and reactive support alerts.
Work collaboratively across the Technology department while mentoring and supporting other engineers.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: Work across a broad range of business-critical systems and technologies that have real impact across Global.
Own It: Take responsibility for improving platform reliability, automation, and deployment processes in a modern engineering environment.
Keep it Simple: Solve complex technical challenges using industry-standard tooling and scalable engineering practices.
Better Together: Be part of a collaborative team culture that values code reviews, pair programming, continuous integration, learning, and knowledge sharing.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
Built a strong understanding of our existing build and deployment architecture Contributed improvements to technical solutions and ways of working Delivered new features, fixes, and platform enhancements Demonstrated a collaborative approach to problem-solving and delivery Shared knowledge with the team while continuing to develop new skills
What You’ll Need
Platform & Cloud Engineering Experience: Strong experience solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems, with exposure to AWS and Kubernetes environments Software Development & Automation Skills: Experience working across the full software development lifecycle with strong coding and automation capabilities Systems Thinking: Understanding of system architecture and the ability to think end-to-end across platforms and services Quality Engineering Mindset: Experience writing well-tested, maintainable, secure, and performant code, including infrastructure testing (e.g.
Terraform Testing, BDD-style integration tests) Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in multi-tenant environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
