{"id":1419638,"url":"https://alion.io/job/quantum-lead-platform-engineer","title":"Lead, Platform Engineer","company":{"id":456063,"name":"Quantum","domain":"quantum.media","url":"https://alion.io/company/quantum-7","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":94000,"max_usd":184000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":15},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Google GKE","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Traefik","optional":false},{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":true},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":true},{"name":"Claude","optional":true},{"name":"Gemini","optional":true},{"name":"GitOps","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T15:49:34Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T02:58:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Our Company\n At Quantum, we connect global brands with high-intent consumers. We turn intent into action and complexity into clarity.\nOur Mission is clear, to help smarter, faster buying decisions. Our vision, to be the world’s most used digital comparison service, delivering value and simplicity to millions.\nWe drive growth through data-driven affiliate marketing built for performance from day one. Every campaign is measurable, optimised in real time, and designed to scale.\nWith in-house tech, full-stack analytics, and a compliance-first mindset, we give our partners an edge. We drive confident decisions and growth in regulated and high-growth sectors. We’ve helped ambitious brands grow faster, smarter, and globally.\nThe Role\nWe're hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to own our Google Cloud platform and the route our engineers take to production. You'll spend most of your time designing and building, and you'll manage one infrastructure engineer from day one.\nAs the business grows we expect the platform team to grow with it, and we'd like you to lead that. You'll report to the Director of Engineering.\nWhat you'll work on\nCompleting the rollout of the next version of our platform while the current one keeps serving live traffic.\n\nMoving acquired sites, which currently deploy in their own ways, onto a common build and release path.\n\nStrengthening edge protection and resilience so the platform absorbs traffic spikes and hostile traffic.\n\nGiving every team clear visibility of what's deployed, when, and how often.\n\nDefining the route from prototype to production, including the checks a service needs before it goes live.\n\nWhat you'll be responsible for\nPlatform and infrastructure\nDesign, build and run scalable, secure infrastructure on GCP, defined in Terraform.\n\nOwn networking and IAM design, including VPCs, ingress through Traefik, and encryption of data at rest and in transit.\n\nMake and record architecture decisions for the platform, and keep them visible to the wider team.\n\nWork with the software engineering team to ensure we’re delivering the right infrastructure at the right time.\n\nWork with our data engineers on the infrastructure behind BigQuery and our data pipelines.\n\nDelivery and developer experience\nOwn our CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and make deployments quick and repeatable.\n\nBuild self-service tooling so product engineers can ship and run their own services with confidence.\n\nReliability and security\nSet up monitoring, logging and alerting using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus and Grafana.\n\nLead root cause analysis after incidents and see the fixes through.\n\nBuild security into the delivery process early, and track and address vulnerabilities across the estate.\n\nKeep the platform in line with our regulatory obligations and internal policies.\n\nLeadership\nLine manage and develop our infrastructure engineer, with regular one-to-ones and a clear growth plan.\n\nSet platform standards and help the iGaming and Rewards tech leads adopt them.\n\nShape the platform roadmap with the Director of Engineering and plan how the team grows.\n\nHire into the platform team as it expands.\n\nAbout you\nSignificant experience as a platform, cloud or infrastructure engineer, including time as the senior or lead engineer on a team.\n\nDeep, hands-on experience with GCP, including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage and BigQuery.\n\nStrong Terraform skills and experience running infrastructure as code in production.\n\nExperience building and running CI/CD pipelines, ideally in GitHub Actions.\n\nSolid Docker and Kubernetes experience, including cluster networking and ingress.\n\nScripting and programming ability in Python, Go or Bash.\n\nExperience with observability tooling and with leading incident response.\n\nExperience mentoring engineers, and a real interest in line management.\n\nClear written and spoken English, and comfort explaining technical trade-offs to people outside engineering.\n\nNice to have\nTypeScript or JavaScript experience.\n\nArgoCD or other GitOps tooling.\n\nExperience in a regulated industry such as iGaming, fintech or health.\n\nExperience consolidating infrastructure after an acquisition or major migration.\n\nExperience building or growing a platform team.\n\nWhat You’ll Get\nPrivate Health Care (Bupa)\n\nHybrid Working (3 days in office)\n\nTravel Insurance\n\nCompetitive Base Salary\n\nCompany Bonus Scheme\n\nPaid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)\n\nMarket-Leading Training Programme\n\nRecognition & Reward Scheme\n\nAnnual Company Conference\n\nRegular Happy Hours & Team Lunches\n\nFree Coffee, Drinks & Snacks\n\nWhat’s the next step?\n Our hiring process ensures we're recruiting the right people for the role. We ensure that people are as suitable for us as we are for them.\nIf you like the sound of what we're all about at Quantum and want to join a team where you can make an impact, please apply or contact us at .","description_format":"text","description_chars":4928,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T21:54:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T03:29:43Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/quantum-lead-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/quantum-lead-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T03:29:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3212,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1788,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}