Platform Engineer

We represent a highly reputable and globally recognized financial services company. With a strong focus on online trading and investment solutions, our organization has built a solid reputation in the industry. We specialize in providing a wide range of trading instruments to our diverse clientele, including foreign exchange (Forex) currency pairs, commodities, indices, cryptocurrencies, and more. Our advanced trading platforms empower traders worldwide to access the global financial markets and execute their trading strategies effectively. Our company operates globally, catering to clients from various regions and jurisdictions. We adhere to regulatory frameworks in each country where we operate, ensuring compliance and offering a secure trading environment for our clients. We prioritise client protection and maintain strict confidentiality in all our dealings. Position Purpose We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join our Platform Development team. You will design, build, and run the internal platform that our product engineering teams depend on: secure, self-service Azure infrastructure delivered through GitOps and infrastructure as code, engineered for a 99.99% uptime target. This is a hands-on engineering role with 4-6 years of experience expected. You will treat the platform as a product, owning its stability, performance, and running cost. Expect to spend your time automating away toil, shortening the path from commit to production, and making the platform both cheaper and more reliable quarter over quarter. Responsibilities Build and operate our internal developer platform as a product, with paved paths, golden templates, and self-service capabilities for product teamsDesign, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure using TerraformOwn platform stability and availability against a 99.99% uptime target, including SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planningDesign for resilience: high availability, multi-zone deployments, graceful degradation, backup and disaster recovery, and regular failure testingDrive cloud cost optimisation through rightsizing, autoscaling, reserved capacity, spot workloads, and removal of idle resourcesBuild cost visibility and accountability, tagging and attributing spend so teams can see and manage the cost of what they runRun GitOps-based delivery on Kubernetes with FluxCD, keeping cluster state declarative, reviewable, and reproducibleBuild and evolve Azure DevOps pipelines for reliable, low-friction deployments, including one-click releases, safe rollbacks, and parameterised buildsPackage and standardise workloads with Docker and Kubernetes across environmentsImprove observability across the platform with metrics, logs, traces, and actionable alerting so teams can see, measure, and debug their own servicesReduce operational noise: tune alerts, remove recurring failure modes, and run blameless post-incident reviews that lead to permanent fixesEmbed non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, and cost into platform design by default rather than as an afterthoughtPartner with product engineering teams to fold platform and operational concerns into design, build, and releaseProvide Level 2/3 support for platform components, finding root causes and shipping permanent fixesContinuously reduce manual work, cycle time, and operational overhead across the engineering organisation Requirements Experience 4-6 years of hands-on experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or a closely related discipline. Must-have skills FluxCD, for GitOps-based continuous delivery on KubernetesTerraform, for infrastructure as code at scaleAzure cloud, including core services, networking, identity, and governanceAzure DevOps, including pipelines, repos, and release automationKubernetes, including deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production clustersDocker, including container build, image hygiene, and runtime fundamentalsRunning highly available production systems and holding availability targets such as 99.99%Cloud cost management and optimisation on Azure Good-to-have skills Cloud security, including posture management, secrets handling, and policy enforcementGitOps practices and tooling beyond FluxCDArgoCDOpenTelemetry (OTEL) and modern observability pipelinesPowerShell scripting and automationSite Reliability Engineering practices such as SLOs, error budgets, and chaos testingFinOps practices and cloud cost governance Soft Skills Strong problem-solving and analytical skillsExcellent collaboration and communication abilitiesA product mindset, treating internal engineers as your customersSound judgement under pressure during incidents, with a calm and structured approachComfortable working across multiple teams and managing competing prioritiesProactive, with a bias towards continuous improvement