Senior Platform Engineer, Foundations

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential blockchain analytics organization seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Foundations team in London. Our client operates at the intersection of cryptocurrency intelligence and enterprise security, building platforms that enable global organizations to navigate digital asset ecosystems with confidence.

The Platform Engineering function provides the shared infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience that powers every engineering initiative across the organization. This team is evolving toward consolidated, scalable platform patterns that support global growth, improve reliability, and reduce operational burden on product engineers. You'll partner closely with Developer Productivity, Information Security, Cost Optimization, and R&D teams to provide secure, self-service paths from development through production.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and continuously improve highly available platform services, including managed Kubernetes clusters, Kafka, CI/CD systems, artifact management, and related shared infrastructure
• Build secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS and other cloud environments using infrastructure as code and repeatable automation
• Improve production reliability through well-defined SLOs, graceful degradation, self-healing, automated recovery, and effective incident response
• Create self-service workflows and platform abstractions that reduce cognitive load and help R&D teams ship and operate software more effectively
• Partner with Information Security, Cost Optimization, and engineering teams to strengthen controls, improve cloud efficiency, influence technical direction, and contribute to the platform roadmap
• Own complex technical work from inception through production, influence platform standards and roadmaps, and help create systems that are highly available, observable, secure, and easy for other engineers to use

What We're Looking For

Required Experience:

• Deep experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production infrastructure in AWS, including services such as IAM, EC2, EKS, RDS, MSK, S3, Lambda, VPC, and networking
• Experience administering and scaling multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters and streaming platforms such as Kafka in production, including upgrades, workload isolation, reliability, security, and incident response
• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code, pipeline-as-code, containerization, and cloud-native systems using tools such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Experience designing observability for production systems and tuning relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, using tools such as Datadog or Prometheus
• Strong software-engineering or scripting skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, Scala, or shell
• Track record of owning ambiguous cross-functional problems and communicating tradeoffs clearly

Beneficial Experience:

• Experience with elevating developer productivity and the developer experience
• Experience building self-service tooling or reusable platform abstractions for engineering teams
• Interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, or curiosity and willingness to learn
• Experience operating in a security standards-compliant environment such as ISO 27001, NIST 800-171, or SOC 2

Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Backstage, Datadog, Prometheus, PostgreSQL, and Python

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and career goals. If there's a strong mutual fit, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the employer directly—all communication and interview coordination will be managed through our talent team to ensure a smooth, confidential process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive with senior platform engineering roles in the London market.

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