Senior Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer
London, Hybrid (4 days per week in office)

Up to £160,000 + Equity

This is a rare opportunity to join a rapidly scaling AI platform at a pivotal stage of growth. You will take ownership of the cloud and platform foundations, shaping how engineering teams ship reliable, secure, and compliant systems at enterprise scale. The role offers genuine influence, technical depth, and the chance to build infrastructure that underpins a category defining product.

The Company
They are an enterprise AI platform transforming how complex, regulated organisations build and validate client-ready work. Their technology replaces manual, error-prone workflows with automated AI systems used by global teams. Backed by top tier investors and having recently completed a major funding round, they are now scaling their platform and engineering capability to meet growing customer demand.

The Role

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure to support rapid product growth.
• Own DevOps and platform engineering practices, enabling teams to deploy quickly and safely.
• Prepare and maintain audit-ready infrastructure aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 expectations.
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines across backend, frontend, and data services.
• Implement observability across logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, etc.
• Monitor and optimise cloud costs while maintaining high availability and performance.
• Act as an advocate for operational excellence across the engineering organisation.

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong commercial experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, ideally in Azure, with AWS exposure beneficial.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions.
• Proven capability implementing observability, including logging, metrics, and tracing frameworks.
• Solid understanding of cloud security best practices, secrets management, and security tooling.
• Strong networking knowledge across private networking, DNS, load balancers, VPNs, and firewalls.
• Experience managing production-grade databases and storage solutions.
• Comfortable automating infrastructure and tooling using Python or Bash.
• Experience supporting reliability, compliance, and cost efficiency in fast-growing environments.

What They Offer

• Salary up to £160,000 plus meaningful equity.
• A high-impact role with ownership over core platform infrastructure.
• Significant technical and personal growth in a fast-moving AI environment.
• Hybrid working with four days per week in the London office.

How to Apply
Apply now to explore how this Platform Engineer role could be the next defining step in your career.