Platform Engineer at OakNorth empowering businesses through innovative financial products. Designing self-service infrastructure, enhancing developer experiences, and collaborating across teams in a hybrid role.
Responsibilities
Design and build self-service infrastructure and developer tooling to enhance engineering effectiveness.
Improve the developer experience by creating platform abstractions that reduce complexity and accelerate delivery.
Enable teams to own and operate their services autonomously by continuously refining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).
Improve system transparency for our teams by enhancing the observability stack using tools like CloudWatch, X-Ray and Grafana.
Take initiative to identify inefficiencies in the platform and plan with Senior Engineers for the solutions to be included in the roadmap.
Implement best practices for resiliency and reliability to ensure platform stability and reduce single points of failure.
Work together with the Information and Cyber Security teams to help embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and automation frameworks.
Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand their pain points and proactively improve platform capabilities.
Partner with Senior Platform Engineers with a willingness to take initiative.
Promote open communication, cross-team collaboration, and a culture of experimentation.
Foster a culture of upward feedback that enables bidirectional growth.
Requirements
Experience in cloud platforms with a focus on building and maintaining platform services for developer enablement.
Strong IaC concepts and language agnostic automation skills.
Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms.
Experienced in designing, implementing CI/CD pipelines with an emphasis on deployment automation and reliability.
Knowledge of observability, logging, and monitoring best practices.
A collaborative and product-minded approach, focusing on enabling engineering teams.
Enjoy collaborating with engineers, security, and product teams while working in an Agile setup.
Good communication skills that make it easy to understand complex technical ideas.
A low ego working style that supports open collaboration and encourages everyone to share ideas.
Benefits
This is a truly hybrid role, offering engineers the flexibility to work from home while also providing opportunities to collaborate in person with the team when it adds value.
25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances.
Competitive salary & equity.
Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS.
The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work.
A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts, lunches, and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day.
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