Senior Platform Engineer

IG operates an award-winning trading platform and provides forex trading services, support, and educational resources through IG Academy.

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London, UK
About IG

IG is a trading-services company offering an award-winning trading platform, including forex trading services in the US. Its website highlights instant support and educational resources through IG Academy, and warns users about the risks of leveraged CFD trading.

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About the Role

You will design and operate scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and build CI/CD pipelines that support secure delivery. You will manage Kubernetes environments create self-service developer tooling establish monitoring and observability standards collaborate across development and operations and mentor junior engineers. You will also document platform practices and support reliable cost-effective infrastructure.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience across AWS GCP and Azure
  • Knowledge of VPC Direct Connect Transit Gateways BGP OSPF and IaaS and PaaS architecture
  • 2+ years of experience with Terraform or Ansible
  • Experience with AWX Ansible Tower Terragrunt and scripting in Python Bash or Go
  • 2+ years designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines
  • Knowledge of secrets management vulnerability scanning and compliance
  • 2+ years of Kubernetes administration
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes networking RBAC pod security Istio and Docker image management
  • Experience with Backstage artifact repositories API gateways and self-service tools
  • Experience with Honeycomb Prometheus and Grafana
  • Knowledge of microservices cloud networking DNS load balancing and traffic management
  • Proficiency with Git GitHub GitLab and Bitbucket
  • Ability to work autonomously and contribute to engineering standards

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform
  • Build optimize and maintain CI/CD pipelines
  • Manage Kubernetes environments across EKS AKS and GKE
  • Implement platform engineering tools and self-service capabilities
  • Define monitoring alerting and observability standards
  • Improve infrastructure reliability and performance
  • Foster collaboration between development and operations
  • Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge
  • Write and maintain engineering documentation

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model with three days in the office
  • Home office equipment reimbursement
  • Performance-related bonus
  • Private medical cover for you and your family or partner
  • Multikafeteria system with multisport cards and vouchers
  • Life insurance
  • Share Plans for Employees
  • Well-being events and Employee Assistance Programme
  • Summer picnic New Year party and other social events
  • Three additional days off per year including birthday and voluntary work leave
  • App-based parking spot booking system
  • Stretching sessions
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