Senior Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

CreateFuture is a Version 1 company and an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. 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.

We'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.

🏢 About CreateFuture

CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row.

🎯 The Role

You'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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Deliver shared platforms and infrastructure for software, data and AI workloads.
• Bring credible, role-specific capability in cloud platforms, with production experience on at least one major cloud service provider.
• Platform architecture, integration, and portability.
• Platform automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as the default way of working, lifecycle management, and self-service.
• CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Runtime and workload-platform engineering and enablement, including production containerised workloads.
• Secure platform engineering, with security and observability by design.
• Shared platform observability, reliability, incident investigation and mitigation, resilience, and recovery.
• Platform performance, scalability, capacity, and cost optimisation.
• Clear, tracked communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Resolve complex or ambiguous platform and infrastructure problems within a team or engagement, making sound judgement calls.
• Shape technical direction for shared platforms, influencing how work gets done as well as what.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients on platform architecture, reliability and cost trade-offs.
• Coach and develop other engineers, and raise standards across our platform engineering discipline.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Container orchestration: running Kubernetes or a similar orchestrator at scale, including service mesh.
• Developer self-service: golden paths, templates, GitOps and dev platforms.
• Site reliability: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, on-call and disaster recovery.
• Platform security: policy as code, software supply chain security, DevSecOps and regulated environments.
• AI platforms: model serving and inference, AI gateways, agent runtimes, evals in the release process, and token and cost telemetry.
• FinOps: cost visibility and attribution, optimisation and capacity planning.
• Migration and modernisation: assessing estates, data centre exits and moving workloads onto containers.
• Networking and connectivity: multi-account design and hybrid connectivity.

🎁 Benefits

• Meal Vouchers (EdenRed): 102 euros per month loaded to your digital food voucher
• Private Health Insurance via Bulstrad
• Enhanced Sick Leave
• 45 hours per year towards learning and development
• 200 euros per year towards your learning & development
• Perkbox: rewards & discounts platform for saving and wellbeing

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

You'll need to live in Bulgaria and have unrestricted right to work.