Platform Engineer

Our Story   Hello there. We’re Zopa.   We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!    We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.    If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife The Team   Cloud Infrastructure is part of Zopa’s Platform Tribe, working alongside DBA and DevX colleagues. Our customers are the engineers who build Zopa’s products, and we are making it easier for them to deliver safely and independently.    In 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.    You will join early enough to make a tangible contribution to how the platform evolves, not simply maintain what already exists. A Day In The Life: • Own delivery of meaningful cloud infrastructure and migration work. • Build and improve infrastructure-as-code, containers and cloud automation. • Work with engineers to understand needs and improve the developer experience. • Help make platform services secure, reliable, observable and maintainable. • Learn and apply Zopa’s AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD patterns. • Contribute to shared standards, documentation, code review and continuous improvement. • Support business-critical services through the shared on-call rota. About You: • Practical cloud experience in AWS, GCP, Azure or another major cloud environment. • Container experience, such as Kubernetes or ECS. • Infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally Terraform or a comparable tool. • Experience contributing to CI/CD and reliable software delivery. • Ability to take ownership of a project with support and work through ambiguity. • A collaborative approach to enabling application engineers and improving their experience. • Evidence of quality thinking across reliability, maintainability, security and operational readiness. • Experience participating in an on-call rota or supporting production services. Added Bonus: • AWS experience and exposure to Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm and GitHub Actions. • Experience with service discovery, secrets management, networking, monitoring or scripting. • Observability tooling such as Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk. • Pragmatic use of AI-assisted engineering tools. #LI-AP1 At Zopa we value flexible ways of working. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our Manchester office 2-3 days a week. (WeWork, Dalton Place, 29 John Dalton Street, M2 6WF) Please note this office is dog friendly so you might see some furry friends about!   You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.   *Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice   Diversity Statement  Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.    Our approach to AI in interviews At Zopa, AI isn't something we're testing out — it's part of how we work every day. As a proud partner of Jobs 2030, we're committed to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expect Zopians to use AI as part of how they do their jobs.  Because of that, we want to be transparent about how we think about AI use during our hiring process.  Behavioural and competency-based interviews: please don't use AI. These conversations are designed to understand you — your experiences, your judgment, and how you've approached real situations. An AI-generated answer can't tell us that. What it can do is get in the way of us finding out whether we're the right fit for each other.  Technical interviews: it depends on the role. Some technical stages actively welcome AI use, others don't. Your Talent Partner will let you know what's expected at each stage. Where AI is part of the assessment, we'll be interested not just in the outcome, but in how you used it – the tools you chose, your reasoning, and the decisions you made along the way.