Job Title: Platform Engineer Location: Cardiff Hybrid / Flexible Working Salary: Up To £55,000 depending on experience up to 20% annual bonus benefits Stability, flexibility and the opportunity to work on greenfield projects within one of Europe’s leading financial experts, does that sound interesting to you? LDMS - About Us Founded in 2018, LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 3 pillar organisation that has over 950 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years. We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not only write quality code but think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets. The Role As a Platform Engineer at LDMS, you will work as part of the engineering team responsible for the cloud infrastructure that underpins our SaaS products and internal tooling. You will be hands-on with AWS infrastructure, supporting production systems and improving reliability and automation. You’ll work alongside senior engineers, learning from their experience while progressively taking ownership. The right candidate: Can deliver technical tasks with guidance, planning your approach and validating your work through testing Takes the time to understand existing infrastructure before making changes or proposing improvements Documents their work clearly and shares knowledge with teammates Is keen to learn from more experienced engineers and receptive to feedback Enjoys developing their skills and staying curious about new technologies and approaches Understands that good engineering is built on continuous learning and improvement Requirements Essential: Experience building, operating, or supporting cloud infrastructure used by production services Practical, hands-on knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ECS, RDS, and IAM Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (for example Terraform or similar) and an understanding of why repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure is important Experience contributing to CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure or application delivery Basic understanding of observability concepts, including metrics, logs, and alerts, and how they support reliable systems Ability to work collaboratively within a team, contributing ideas, code, and improvements Desirable: Scripting or automation experience using Shell or Python Experience administering Linux or Windows systems, including basic troubleshooting via the command line Benefits Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%) 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 1 day Birthday leave 1 day Charity leave Private Health Insurance EAP Pension (3% / 5% contribution) Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)