Senior Platform Engineer – Remote UK Only

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Leverage and enhance Ansible-based deployment automation to support smooth product feature releases, following established TechOps peer-review protocols.

• Oversee application-level health within the cluster, working closely with TechOps on incident response and conducting post-mortems for engineering-led deployments.

• Ensure comprehensive documentation, deployment runbooks, and developer self-service guides are maintained to optimize engineering onboarding and release workflows.

• Act as a vital representative of Engineering in platform design: Collaborate with TechOps to define engineering self-service workflows, guardrails, and standards.

• Standardize application-level configurations: Partner with TechOps to create clear engineering standards for ingress, RBAC, namespacing strategy, and secrets management.

• Lead phased application migrations: Collaborate with engineering teams to containerize and transition existing workloads to Kubernetes, beginning with non-critical environments to build confidence before migrating business-critical systems.

• Develop robust deployment pipelines: Create CI/CD workflows for Kubernetes-based deployments (utilizing Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or similar) with automated guardrails to ensure rapid, repeatable, and secure code delivery.

• Establish application observability: Implement application-level metrics, logging, and alerting within the namespaces, guaranteeing engineering teams have the insights they require to monitor workload health.

• Generate developer self-service documentation: Document deployment runbooks, manifest templates, and best practices to enable engineers to onboard and self-serve safely within the established guardrails.

⛳️ Requirements

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills: we prioritize a people-first culture where teamwork is essential. In highly technical projects with numerous moving parts, the ability to collaborate openly, communicate effectively, and engage others is as critical as technical expertise.

• Strong, demonstrable experience with Ansible: including roles, inventories, vault, idempotency, and more.

• Proficient with Docker and Docker Compose in production settings.

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals.

• Strong scripting capabilities: proficiency in Bash and Python.

• Familiarity with GitOps tools: ArgoCD or Flux.

• Experience with observability tools (such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, or equivalent).

• Ability to think creatively within constraints and plan pragmatically: our stack is real-world, not idealistic, and we seek someone who can deliver iteratively while working with existing systems and planning towards the optimal state.

• A methodical, security-focused approach.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave in addition to public holidays.

• Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months of full pay for birth parents, 4 weeks of full pay for non-birth parents after one year of employment.

• 5 additional 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year.

• Private Medical and Dental Insurance.

• Enhanced pension contributions.

• Cycle to Work scheme.

• Eye Care Vouchers.

• Life Assurance.

• Enhanced Wellness Program, including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Programs.

• Regular company events and activities.