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We work alongside organisations such as Fanatics, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first.\nWe're a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what's not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.\nOur Bulgaria Benefits\nMeal Vouchers (EdenRed): 102 euros per month loaded to your digital food voucher\nPrivate Health Insurance via Bulstrad\nEnhanced Sick Leave\n45 hours per year towards learning and development\n200 euros per year towards your learning & development\nPerkbox: rewards & discounts platform for saving and wellbeing\nCreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row.\nJoin us on our journey. Let's create tomorrow, together, today.\nAbout the role and team\nYou'll join our Bulgaria team, working side by side with clients and our delivery teams to turn architectural designs into production systems. Increasingly, our clients want products and platforms that are AI-native from the start. As a Platform Engineer, you'll be both a hands-on individual contributor and a technical driving force in your team: closing the gap between design and delivery, recognising operational bottlenecks, and establishing good engineering practice in client environments. This role is based in Bulgaria, and you'll need to live there and have unrestricted right to work.\nHow we work\nCreateFuture is an AI-native organisation. Every core technical role is expected to:\nWork with AI-native delivery and workflow practices.\nPractise agentic engineering through at least one harness.\nApply context engineering through prompts, skills, tools and harnesses.\nKnow at least one runtime or language.\nUse CI/CD and automated quality practices to verify work in all its forms.\nWhat you'll be doing\nA platform is the shared foundation our clients' teams build and run their products on. It runs on public cloud, it is defined as code, and it is run as a product. It has users, a roadmap, and measurable reliability, security and cost. It covers accounts and landing zones, networking, compute and container runtimes, delivery pipelines, observability, security controls, and the services that host AI models and agents. Teams use it through self-service, not tickets.\nAs a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll deliver shared platforms and infrastructure for software, data and AI workloads.\nYou'll bring credible, role-specific capability in:\nCloud platforms, with production experience on at least one major cloud service provider.\nPlatform architecture, integration, and portability.\nPlatform automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as the default way of working, lifecycle management, and self-service.\nCI/CD pipelines and release automation.\nRuntime and workload-platform engineering and enablement, including production containerised workloads.\nSecure platform engineering, with security and observability by design.\nShared platform observability, reliability, incident investigation and mitigation, resilience, and recovery.\nPlatform performance, scalability, capacity, and cost optimisation.\nClear, tracked communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nYou won't need depth in all of these, but experience in one or more of the following would be valuable:\nContainer orchestration: running Kubernetes or a similar orchestrator at scale, including service mesh.\nDeveloper self-service: golden paths, templates, GitOps and dev platforms.\nSite reliability: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, on-call and disaster recovery.\nPlatform security: policy as code, software supply chain security, DevSecOps and regulated environments.\nAI platforms: model serving and inference, AI gateways, agent runtimes, evals in the release process, and token and cost telemetry.\nFinOps: cost visibility and attribution, optimisation and capacity planning.\nMigration and modernisation: assessing estates, data centre exits and moving workloads onto containers.\nNetworking and connectivity: multi-account design and hybrid connectivity.\nWe'd love to talk to you if you\nResolve complex or ambiguous platform and infrastructure problems within a team or engagement, making sound judgement calls.\nShape technical direction for shared platforms, influencing how work gets done as well as what.\nAct as a trusted advisor to clients on platform architecture, reliability and cost trade-offs.\nCoach and develop other engineers, and raise standards across our platform engineering discipline.\nWhat we’ll offer you:\nWe trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.\nWe offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.\nWe trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.\nOur hiring process\nWe try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.\nIt usually looks like this:\nCall with our Talent Acquisition Team \nRole specific capability interview \nDepending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.\nInclusion at CreateFuture \nWe believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.\nIf you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. 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