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.
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
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
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