At Quantum, we connect global brands with high-intent consumers. We turn intent into action and complexity into clarity. Our 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.
🏢 About Quantum
We 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. With 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.
🎯 The Role
We'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. As 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.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Completing the rollout of the next version of our platform while the current one keeps serving live traffic.
Moving acquired sites, which currently deploy in their own ways, onto a common build and release path.
Strengthening edge protection and resilience so the platform absorbs traffic spikes and hostile traffic.
Giving every team clear visibility of what's deployed, when, and how often.
Defining the route from prototype to production, including the checks a service needs before it goes live.
📌 Required Qualifications
Significant experience as a platform, cloud or infrastructure engineer, including time as the senior or lead engineer on a team.
Deep, hands-on experience with GCP, including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage and BigQuery.
Strong Terraform skills and experience running infrastructure as code in production.
Experience building and running CI/CD pipelines, ideally in GitHub Actions.
Solid Docker and Kubernetes experience, including cluster networking and ingress.
Scripting and programming ability in Python, Go or Bash.
Experience with observability tooling and with leading incident response.
Experience mentoring engineers, and a real interest in line management.
Clear written and spoken English, and comfort explaining technical trade-offs to people outside engineering.
⭐ Desirable Experience
TypeScript or JavaScript experience.
ArgoCD or other GitOps tooling.
Experience in a regulated industry such as iGaming, fintech or health.
Experience consolidating infrastructure after an acquisition or major migration.
Experience building or growing a platform team.
🎁 Benefits
Private Health Care (Bupa)
Hybrid Working (3 days in office)
Travel Insurance
Competitive Base Salary
Company Bonus Scheme
Paid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)
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