Senior Platform Engineer (Fintech)

Location: City of London, United Kingdom; hybrid work with three days in the office

Company

hirify.global is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving more than 1.3 million customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions.

What you will do

• Design, architect, evolve, and maintain secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform and lead cloud technology evaluation and standardisation.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines while establishing DevOps and DevSecOps practices.
• Architect and manage Kubernetes environments across EKS, AKS, and GKE, and deliver self-service capabilities through platform engineering tools and developer portals such as Backstage.
• Define monitoring, alerting, and observability standards to improve infrastructure reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with development, security, and FinOps teams, mentor junior engineers, and maintain technical documentation.

Requirements

• 4+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience, including hands-on design and administration of complex platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Deep knowledge of networking, including VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateways, BGP, OSPF, Layer 2/3, MPLS, DNS, load balancing, and traffic management, plus IaaS/PaaS architectural patterns.
• 2+ years of infrastructure as code experience with Terraform or Ansible, including AWX, Ansible Tower, or Terragrunt, and scripting with Python, Bash, or Go.
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or equivalent, with knowledge of secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance.
• 2+ years of Kubernetes administration experience across on-premises and cloud environments; EKS is preferred, with proficiency in networking, RBAC, pod security, Istio, and Docker image management.
• Experience implementing developer portals, artifact repositories such as JFrog Artifactory or Nexus, API gateways, and self-service platform engineering tools.
• Hands-on experience with Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable monitoring and observability platforms.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and the ability to contribute to and implement technical direction.
• Proficiency with Git, GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, with the ability to work autonomously and contribute to engineering standards across teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with three days in the office.
• Flexible benefits package worth 12% on top of salary, private medical cover, life insurance, and gym membership contributions.
• 28 total days off, including 25 days of holiday, a birthday day, and two additional voluntary-work days, with the option to buy or sell holiday days.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental pay and leave, plus additional support for parents.
• Mentorships, volunteering opportunities, professional networks, committees, awards, sports, and social clubs.