Senior Platform Engineer
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and Kubernetes
- Build and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Define and enforce platform standards across environments (dev, staging, prod)
- Collaborate with developers and DevOps on deployment tooling and security
- Enable platform observability using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and CloudWatch
- Maintain Helm charts and Terraform modules for shared infrastructure
- Contribute to onboarding documentation and platform adoption practices
- Participate in incident response and postmortem analysis, where applicable
- Strong experience with Terraform, Pulumi and Helm in multi-account AWS environments
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, Control Tower, Transfer Family, Transit Gateway, Multi-account hosted zones, etc.) with practical experience in designing large-scale cloud solutions.
- Proven software engineering experience (any language) and willingness to learn C#, TypeScript, Python
- Proven full-stack engineering experience (front end, backend, APIs, databases)
- Proficient in Kubernetes (EKS preferred), including RBAC, autoscaling, and Helm-based deployment
- Solid experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, etc.)
- Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and secure image management
- Scripting or programming experience in Bash, Python, or TypeScript
- Strong understanding of GitOps practices and infrastructure lifecycle management
- Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Fluent Bit)
- Knowledge of admission controllers, OPA/Gatekeeper (optional for governance)
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimisation and Kubernetes scaling strategies
- Exposure to security scanning tools (tfsec, Trivy, Snyk)
- Interest in mentoring and platform evangelism within the wider engineering team
- Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the "Best Places to Work 2024 and 2025" by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
- Award-Winning Fintech : YouLend has been recognised as a "Top 250 Fintech Worldwide" company by CNBC.
- Stock Options
- Private Medical insurance via Vitality and dental with BUPA
- EAP with Health Assured
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
- Free Gym in office building in Holborn
- Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
- Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
- Monthly in office Masseuse
- Team and Company Socials
- Football Power League / Paddle Club
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