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Our customers are the engineers who build Zopa’s products, and we are making it easier for them to deliver safely and independently.\nIn the near term, the team is completing a major migration. Beyond that, we are bringing platform capabilities together and creating more self-service tooling and clear engineering guardrails.\nYou will join early enough to make a tangible contribution to how the platform evolves, not simply maintain what already exists.\nA Day In The Life:\nOwn delivery of meaningful cloud infrastructure and migration work.\n\nBuild and improve infrastructure-as-code, containersand cloud automation.\n\nWork with engineers to understand needs and improve the developer experience.\n\nHelp make platform services secure, reliable, observableand maintainable.\n\nLearn and apply Zopa’s AWS, Kubernetesand CI/CD patterns.\n\nContribute to shared standards, documentation, code reviewand continuous improvement.\n\nSupport business-criticalservices through the shared on-call rota.\n\nAbout You:\nPractical cloud experience in AWS, GCP, Azureor another major cloud environment.\n\nContainer experience, such as Kubernetes or ECS.\n\nInfrastructure-as-code experience, ideally Terraform or a comparable tool.\n\nExperience contributing to CI/CD and reliable software delivery.\n\nAbility to take ownership of a project with support and work through ambiguity.\n\nA collaborative approach to enabling application engineers and improving their experience.\n\nEvidence of quality thinking across reliability, maintainability, securityand operational readiness.\n\nExperience participatingin an on-call rotaor supporting production services.\n\nAdded Bonus:\nAWS experience and exposure to Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm and GitHub Actions.\n\nExperience with service discovery, secretsmanagement, networking, monitoringor scripting.\n\nObservability tooling such as Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk.\n\nPragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2043,"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":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Professional Services","Payment Processing & Gateways","Consumer Loans & Pawnshops"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T13:43:57Z"}],"liveness":{"score":70,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.778,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":22,"expected_fill_days":56,"reasons":["conf:1","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T03:39:27Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zopa-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zopa-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T03:39:27Z","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":3208,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1792,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}