Salary range: up to £75,000
Location: Birmingham
Company Overview
Drivvn is a fast-growing B2B SaaS company transforming the automotive industry through cutting‑edge eCommerce solutions. Founded in 2020 and operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of the TCC Group, Drivvn empowers major automotive brands like Stellantis, Ford, Volvo, and Volkswagen to deliver seamless online vehicle buying experiences. More recently it has entered the vehicle leasing space, working with MHC and Leasys. Its digital retail platform supports every stage of the automotive sales and leasing journey—from vehicle configuration to financing—while enabling real‑time integration and omnichannel capabilities. The company predominantly operates in Europe, with plans for expansion. Drivvn generated approximately £8 million in revenue for FY24.
Primary Purpose & Scope
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be a technically strong individual contributor and emerging leader within our platform engineering team. You will own complex workstreams end‑to‑end, lead the technical design of platform capabilities, and actively raise the bar for reliability, security, and developer experience across our multi‑tenant automotive SaaS platform. You will be a trusted go‑to for your peers, able to investigate and resolve challenging production issues, contribute to architectural decisions, and help grow the team’s capabilities. You play a key role in shaping how we leverage AI‑driven automation, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and agentic workflows to build self‑healing, intelligent platform capabilities.
Infrastructure & Automation
* Own and lead complex Terraform workstreams, including designing reusable module structures, managing remote state, and reviewing infrastructure changes for correctness and security.
* Design and implement GitOps patterns using ArgoCD, ensuring declarative, auditable deployments across multi‑tenant AKS clusters.
* Build automation (Python, Bash, Go) to eliminate manual toil, improve reliability, and support product engineering teams with robust platform tooling.
* Drive CI/CD improvements including pipeline architecture, caching strategies, image build optimisation, and GitLab CI pipeline templates for consistency across teams.
* Contribute to architectural decisions on platform components – providing input on build vs buy, tradeoffs, and long‑term maintainability.
Security & Compliance
* Lead security‑by‑design across the infrastructure lifecycle, including hardening AKS clusters, managing RBAC, enforcing pod security standards, and configuring network segmentation.
* Own DevSecOps practices including container image scanning (Trivy/Snyk), SBOM generation, supply chain security, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
* Drive vulnerability remediation – triaging findings, implementing fixes, and coordinating pen‑test remediation with thoroughness and urgency.
* Contribute to and maintain security documentation, runbooks, and control evidence required for compliance and audit purposes.
Reliability & Observability
* Own significant components of our observability stack – Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and distributed tracing – building dashboards, alert rules, and runbooks that support the team during incidents.
* Lead or co‑lead incident response for complex production issues, including investigation, communication, and post‑incident review facilitation.
* Proactively identify reliability risks – surfacing issues before they become incidents and driving preventative improvements to platform architecture.
* Establish and refine SLOs and SLIs for platform components, ensuring the team has meaningful signals to measure and improve platform health.
About you
Essential Skills & Experience
* Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and Azure services (AKS, Azure AD, Key Vault, Azure Monitor) – able to troubleshoot complex cluster issues independently.
* Deep Terraform proficiency – module authoring, remote state, workspace management, and reviewing others’ IaC changes.
* Confident in scripting and programming – Python, Bash required; Go or TypeScript a strong plus.
* Extensive CI/CD experience with GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or Azure DevOps – including building pipeline templates and debugging complex failures.
* Strong security knowledge for cloud‑native environments – container hardening, secrets management, RBAC, network policies, and supply chain security.
* Proven ability to lead workstreams – from scoping through to delivery and documentation – with clear communication throughout.
* Skilled at explaining complex technical concepts to both technical peers and non‑technical stakeholders.
Desirable Skills & Experience
* Experience with AI/ML tooling and emerging patterns including LLMs, prompt engineering, AI‑assisted development, or MCP integrations.
* Observability platform depth – experience owning Grafana/Prometheus/Loki implementations and defining alerting strategies at scale.
* Security scanning and DevSecOps tooling (Snyk, Trivy, Microsoft Defender for Containers) with experience in policy‑as‑code approaches.
* Microservices and multi‑tenant SaaS experience – understanding the cross‑cutting concerns of platform reliability in complex environments.
* Helm and Kubernetes operators – authoring or maintaining charts for production workloads.
Personal Attributes
* A self‑starter who identifies problems and acts on them without needing to be asked.
* Technically curious – especially about AI‑driven platform capabilities, emerging tooling, and better ways of working.
* Security‑conscious – treats security as a first‑class concern, not an afterthought.
* Generous with knowledge – writes things down, mentors peers, and makes the team better by sharing what they know.
* Resilient under pressure – calm and methodical during incidents, with a focus on resolution and learning.
* Comfortable with ambiguity – able to navigate complex problems, make pragmatic decisions, and communicate clearly when things are uncertain.
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