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Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer
About the Role
As a key member of our Platform team, this role presents an exciting opportunity to drive platform strategy, cloud automation, and developer experience further at UNiDAYS. You’ll work closely with our software engineering teams to enhance developer productivity and improve engineering workflows.
With a hands-on approach, you’ll identify and implement improvements in:
- Performance
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Security
- Efficiency
Your aim is to remove barriers for other teams, enabling faster delivery via shared tooling, and champion operational excellence through automation and self-serving capabilities.
This isn’t just about writing code. We’re looking for a commercially-minded Platform Engineer who can bridge the gap between user needs and business objectives while building resilient, cost-effective solutions and staying ahead of technological trends.
Our ethos embraces diversity. If you’re keen to learn and grow—even if you don’t check every box yet—we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, test, and implement cloud services via Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Collaborate with software engineers to identify opportunities for platform improvements, upskill engineers, and address their cloud needs
- Identify emerging technologies and drive enhancements across:
- Our platform
- Shared tooling
- Modules & packages
- Develop and improve self-serving capabilities for software teams
- Monitor platform performance with an SRE mindset, setting and optimising Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Define, refine, implement, and document best practices iteratively
- Participate in on-call rotations, typically one week per month (alternate fortnightly, supported by a simple runbook)
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Requirements
Hard Skills & Experience
- Strong cloud expertise, especially hands-on experience with:
- AWS cloud services
- IaC (preferably Terraform & CloudFormation), deployment strategies, and cloud architecture
- Experience with:
- ECS (Elastic Container Service) & EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
- Clusters across multiple environments
- Security, networking, CDNs, load balancing, and storage solutions
- CI/CD workflows across environments
- Proficiency with core languages:
- C#
- Python
- TypeScript
Nice-to-Have Skills
- AWS/Terraform certifications
- Database administration experience:
- MSSQL
- RDS
- DynamoDB
- Neptune
- Redshift
- Mentorship or knowledge-sharing background
- Containers and containerisation knowledge
- Operational experience, including:
- Incident management
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and resolution
Personal Attributes
- Communicative & collaborative with colleagues
- Strong teamwork skills and critical thinker
- Problem-solving mindset with a passion for continuous improvement
- Ability to influence and challenge constructively
- Self-aware, willing to give and receive feedback
- Ownership-driven with a pride in high-quality work
- Proactive and eager for professional development
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About UNiDAYS
Join the world’s largest student verification network and help define how brands connect with 73M+ verified students and graduates across 115 markets.
As a trusted partner for 850+ global brands, we drive engagement, loyalty, and commercial results.
UNiDAYS offers a dynamic, sociallyOnce involved, and supportive work culture. We blend excitement with innovation.
- Flexible hybrid model with the freedom to balance personal and professional priorities, including periodic visits to the London campus.
- A commitment to fair, competitive compensation and generous benefits package:
Perks & Benefits
- 25 days paid holiday per year (increasing with tenure) + public holidays
- Competitive salaries
- Early finish (4 PM every Friday)
- Company pension scheme
- Private health insurance (BUPA)
- **Dental insurance (BUPA)
- Income protection & life assurance policies
- Employee Assistance Program
- Enhanced parental leave pays
- Regular team-building activities
- £150 allowance for home office setup
We are an equal opportunity employer, celebrating diversity in all forms.
Discrimination is never tolerated, and we consider candidates of all backgrounds.
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