Senior Platform Engineer

YouLend
Holborn, Greater London
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in building scalable infrastructure and deployment systems across YouLend's cloud ecosystem. You will be responsible for standardising infrastructure as code, improving developer workflows, contributing to CI/CD design, and enabling self-service deployment models through automation and governance. This role is part of the Architecture Team within the Platform group.

Requirements
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
Essential Skills
  • 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
Desirable Skills
  • 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
Salary Range: £65,000-£90,000 DOE

Benefits

Why join YouLend?
  • 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.
We offer comprehensive benefits package that includes:
  • 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
Posted 2025-08-24

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