Senior Platform Engineer

📍London, Old Street | 🏢 2 Days in Office

Platform Engineering at Capital on Tap 🚀

The Platform Engineering team powers fast, secure, and reliable software delivery across the business. We partner with Engineering, Data, Security, and QA teams to build platforms that reduce toil. From managing our Azure infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to shaping core developer tooling, we focus on scalability, resiliency, and security at every step. We’re always exploring new tools, testing ideas, and applying industry best practices to keep our platform cutting-edge and our teams empowered. As the platform evolves, there may be a future requirement for participation in out-of-hours or on-call support arrangements.

What You’ll Be Doing 🗃️

• Provide support to multiple teams across the business function (Product Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, Security and QA).
• Build new and manage existing Azure services and resources with a focus on performance, security, scalability and resiliency in mind.
• Proactively support Platform services and tooling (TeamCity, Octopus, Azure DevOps & more).
• Create and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
• Advise internal teams on infrastructure best practices (HA), container orchestration, monitoring and cloud security.
• Help evolve our CI/CD processes to include code quality testing, security scanning, load testing and infrastructure validations. 

Our Values & Culture 🌞

• Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly.
• Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage.
• Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard.
• Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done.
• Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback.

We’re Looking For 🔎

• 3+ years in Cloud/DevOps roles with experience in either Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience in at least one scripting language (Python, PowerShell, Go)
• Skilled in CI/CD tools (GitHub, Azure DevOps), containerisation, and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Experienced in building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and developer productivity tooling.
• Familiar with observability, alerting, and incident management (DataDog, Grafana) and collaborative, agile team environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor others and influence cross-team engineering culture.

Even if you don’t have all of the necessary skills, we still encourage you to apply.

Interview Process 🤝

• First stage: 30-minute intro, CV review, and values with Talent Partner
• Second stage: 60 minute “Tech Chat” with Team Manager
• Final stage: 75-minute Technical Task + 30 minute Interview with Head of Platform Engineering

Diversity & Inclusion 🌈
We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks
We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table, arcade machine, beer tap, and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure. Check out our benefits:
🏥 Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
✈️ Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
🎁 Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
👛 Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
🏖️ 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
📖 Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
👪 Enhanced Parental Leave
🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme
🚂 Season Ticket Loan
💬 6 free therapy sessions per year
🐶 Dog Friendly Offices
🍫 Free drinks and snacks in our offices

Check out more of our benefits, values and mission here.