Senior Platform Engineer

AI-driven fintech platform for transfer agency, wealth management, and regulated digital-asset operations.

Recently fundedCompany intelligence
London, United Kingdom

Funding history

Investors

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.

View jobs by ZILO Technology Limited

Skills

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