Hybrid Platform Engineer

at OakNorth

• Job title: Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Cyber Security, Grafana, Ray
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Platform Engineer at OakNorth empowering businesses through innovative financial products. Designing self-service infrastructure, enhancing developer experiences, and collaborating across teams in a hybrid role.

Responsibilities

• Design and build self-service infrastructure and developer tooling to enhance engineering effectiveness.
• Improve the developer experience by creating platform abstractions that reduce complexity and accelerate delivery.
• Enable teams to own and operate their services autonomously by continuously refining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Improve system transparency for our teams by enhancing the observability stack using tools like CloudWatch, X-Ray and Grafana.
• Take initiative to identify inefficiencies in the platform and plan with Senior Engineers for the solutions to be included in the roadmap.
• Implement best practices for resiliency and reliability to ensure platform stability and reduce single points of failure.
• Work together with the Information and Cyber Security teams to help embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and automation frameworks.
• Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand their pain points and proactively improve platform capabilities.
• Partner with Senior Platform Engineers with a willingness to take initiative.
• Promote open communication, cross-team collaboration, and a culture of experimentation.
• Foster a culture of upward feedback that enables bidirectional growth.

Requirements

• Experience in cloud platforms with a focus on building and maintaining platform services for developer enablement.
• Strong IaC concepts and language agnostic automation skills.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms.
• Experienced in designing, implementing CI/CD pipelines with an emphasis on deployment automation and reliability.
• Knowledge of observability, logging, and monitoring best practices.
• A collaborative and product-minded approach, focusing on enabling engineering teams.
• Enjoy collaborating with engineers, security, and product teams while working in an Agile setup.
• Good communication skills that make it easy to understand complex technical ideas.
• A low ego working style that supports open collaboration and encourages everyone to share ideas.

Benefits

• This is a truly hybrid role, offering engineers the flexibility to work from home while also providing opportunities to collaborate in person with the team when it adds value.
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances.
• Competitive salary & equity.
• Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS.
• The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work.
• A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts, lunches, and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day.
• We offer the cycle to work and EV scheme.