Senior Platform Engineer

Our Story   Hello there. We’re Zopa.   We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!    We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.    If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife
The Team   Cloud Infrastructure sits within Zopa’s Platform Tribe alongside DBA and DevX colleagues. We build the foundations that help engineering teams deliver reliable, secure products with confidence. 
 
We are at the beginning of a meaningful transformation: moving from infrastructure that is primarily operated for teams towards a platform that engineers can increasingly use through clear, self-service capabilities. 
 
This role will help shape the standards, guardrails and developer experience that make that possible. 

A Day In The Life:

• Design and evolve reliable cloud platform capabilities for engineering teams. 

• Improve AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and operational patterns. 

• Partner with engineers to understand needs and make safe, maintainable choices. 

• Take ownership of work from problem definition through delivery and learning. 

• Strengthen observability, resilience, security and incident readiness. 

• Help build reusable tooling, guardrails and self-service foundations. 

• Contribute to platform standards across Cloud Infrastructure, DBA and DevX. 

• Support business-critical services through the shared on-call rota. 

About You:

• Strong hands-on AWS platform engineering experience in production environments. 

• Practical Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Terraform and Helm experience. 

• Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions, and reusable-pipeline thinking. 

• Experience with logging and monitoring, networking and protocols, scripting, secrets management and service discovery. 

• Exposure to both AWS and Kubernetes, with sound coding experience. 

• Evidence of designing secure, reliable and maintainable platform solutions. 

• Autonomous delivery and constructive collaboration with application engineers. 

• Experience supporting business-critical services through an on-call rota. 

Added Bonus:

• Experience with Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, including SLO-led practices. 

• Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve quality and productivity.