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Senior Platform Engineer | London | Hybrid | £100,000 to £115,000
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing technology company building a highly scalable, data-intensive platform at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and AI.
This is an opportunity to work on complex infrastructure challenges, helping to build and evolve the platform that supports a rapidly growing product. You'll work closely with software engineers and other technical teams to ensure the underlying infrastructure is scalable, reliable, secure and easy to use.
The environment is heavily focused on GCP and Kubernetes, with increasing work around AI workloads, agentic tooling and the infrastructure needed to support them.
What you'll be doing
- Designing, building and improving cloud infrastructure on GCP
- Working extensively with Kubernetes and GKE to run and operate scalable workloads
- Building infrastructure that supports distributed, data-heavy and AI-driven systems
- Working with engineering teams to understand how backend services are built and ensure the platform supports them effectively
- Using your understanding of Go and/or Python to work closely with the engineers building and operating services, without this being a backend development role
- Improving deployment, reliability, observability and developer experience
- Building and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform and modern Infrastructure as Code practices
- Working with GitOps and CI/CD to make deployments reliable and repeatable
- Supporting technologies such as Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch
- Helping to develop the infrastructure required to support AI, LLM and agentic workloads
- Troubleshooting complex production issues and continuously improving the platform
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What we're looking for
- Strong hands-on experience working with GCP
- Excellent Kubernetes experience, ideally including GKE
- Experience building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems
- A strong understanding of how modern backend systems and microservices are designed and operate
- Experience with Go and/or Python, ideally from a previous engineering background or through working closely with backend services
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally with Terraform
- Experience with GitOps, CI/CD and modern deployment practices
- An understanding of APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture and distributed systems
- Experience with observability, monitoring and troubleshooting in production environments
- Interest or experience in AI infrastructure, LLMs, agentic systems or the tooling that supports them
- Someone who enjoys getting hands-on and solving complex technical problems
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This would suit someone who is a strong platform engineer and wants to remain close to the technology. You'll have plenty of autonomy and influence, but this is still a hands-on engineering role where you'll be building, improving and operating the platform.
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