Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer Job Description So, who are we?

What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses. The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG – the future gets built here. Your team Purpose This role is part of our Platform Engineering team -- they are responsible for building the cloud and containers platform landscape to support the business applications via self-service capabilities and automation. Your role in the Team's Success The Senior Platform Engineer is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for building, evolving, and maintaining cloud platform infrastructure to ensure it is secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.

Platform Engineer embeds best practices into platform design and delivery across Engineering, Security and FinOps.

About Ig

• IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof.
• We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated.
• It really is more than a job.
• We think like a start-up, but we deliver like a FTSE 100 — so the bar is high, and we won't pretend otherwise.

Responsibilities

• They operate as a hands-on expert, contributing to complex technical decisions, reducing platform risk, and enabling engineering teams to build and operate services with confidence, speed, and financial discipline.
• The role includes mentoring junior engineers and supporting knowledge sharing across the team.
• Terraform and leading cloud technology evaluation and standardisation initiatives
• Build, optimise, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, establishing DevOps and DevSecOps best practices across the organisation
• Architect and manage Kubernetes environments (EKS, AKS, GKE) and implement platform engineering tools to deliver self-service capabilities via an IDP (e.g. Backstage) Define and enforce monitoring, alerting, and observability standards to ensure infrastructure reliability and performance
• Foster collaboration between development and operations teams, bridging gaps to drive a unified engineering culture
• Mentor junior engineers, share knowledge across the team, and write and maintain documentation to support continuous learning and engineering best practices
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana), including defining alerting standards and ensuring infrastructure reliability at scale

Requirements

• What you'll do Design and architect scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, developing IaC solutions using

What you'll need for this role

• Cloud Infrastructure & Experience : 4+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering with hands-on experience designing and administering complex platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including deep knowledge of networking (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateways, BGP, OSPF) and IaaS/PaaS architectural patterns Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation : 2+ years with IaC tools (Terraform or Ansible) and hands-on experience with orchestration and automation platforms (AWX, Ansible Tower, Terragrunt), scripting in Python, Bash, or Go DevOps & DevSecOps : 2+ years designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using
• Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or equivalent, with strong knowledge of security best practices including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance Kubernetes & Containers : 2+ years of Kubernetes administration across on-premises and cloud environments (EKS preferred, AKS, GKE), with proficiency in networking, RBAC, pod security, service mesh (Istio), and Docker image management Platform Engineering & Developer Tooling : Experience implementing developer portals (Backstage), artifact repositories (JFrog Artifactory, Nexus), API gateways, and self-service platform engineering tools to support internal teams
• Strong grasp of microservices architecture, cloud networking protocols (Layer 2/3, MPLS), DNS, load balancing, and traffic management, with the ability to contribute to and implement technical direction
• Proficiency across version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) with the ability to operate autonomously and contribute to engineering standards across teams

Benefits

• We work hybrid, which means three days in the office.
• We’ll recognise your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it.
• Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%) Private medical cover for you and your family
• Contribution to gym memberships 25 days annual leave, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work
• The option to buy or sell holiday days A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents
• Learn more about the Perks here !
• Join us for this exciting journey.
• Apply now!

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