Senior Platform Engineer
AI-driven fintech platform for transfer agency, wealth management, and regulated digital-asset operations.
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About ZILO Technology Limited
ZILO Technology Limited is a London-based financial technology company providing cloud-native transfer-agency, fund-administration, investor-servicing, wealth, and blockchain-native digital-asset/tokenization solutions for financial institutions.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will provide hands-on technical leadership while designing, building, and evolving cloud platform capabilities and shared infrastructure. You will improve developer self-service, automate infrastructure and software delivery, build CI/CD and observability tooling, and maintain reliable non-production environments. You will collaborate with SRE and Software Engineering on scalable, secure, production-ready platform designs, mentor engineers, document standards, and use AI-assisted tooling responsibly.
Requirements
- Significant experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Senior engineering experience providing technical leadership and mentorship
- Hands-on experience designing and building cloud infrastructure and engineering platforms
- Strong AWS experience
- Strong Kubernetes experience; Amazon EKS preferred
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience; Terraform preferred
- Experience designing reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure patterns
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar
- Experience designing developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, or reusable engineering capabilities
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and ClickHouse
- Strong understanding of Linux, containers, cloud infrastructure, networking, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and cloud networking
- Experience with infrastructure security, IAM, and secure cloud architecture
- Experience automating infrastructure and engineering workflows with Python, Go, Bash, or similar
- Experience supporting highly available customer-facing SaaS platforms
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or ChatGPT
- Communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentor Platform Engineers
- Design, build, and evolve cloud platform and shared infrastructure capabilities
- Develop reusable platform services, components, patterns, and abstractions
- Own and maintain reliable non-production platform environments
- Design and engineer AWS cloud infrastructure and Amazon EKS platform capabilities
- Develop reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code patterns
- Improve Kubernetes scheduling, resource management, scalability, security, networking, and IAM controls
- Build self-service workflows, templates, tooling, and platform interfaces for engineering teams
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, testing, validation, and deployment
- Design and improve CI/CD capabilities, reusable pipelines, and workflows using GitHub Actions
- Build platform observability using metrics, logs, distributed tracing, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and ClickHouse
- Use AI-assisted tools and agentic workflows to improve infrastructure automation and engineering productivity
- Embed security, compliance, auditability, and governance requirements into platform architecture and automation
- Collaborate with SRE and Software Engineering on platform designs, operational requirements, and deployment standards
- Review infrastructure designs and Terraform changes, document technical decisions, and share knowledge
- Identify and reduce platform bottlenecks, complexity, technical debt, and delivery friction
Benefits
- 23 annual holiday days
- 15 public holidays
- Provident Fund
- Health insurance for employees and immediate family
