Platform Engineer

Zopa

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Financial Services 👥 501-1,000 employees 📍 London (UK) Est. 2005

We’re Zopa, and we want to make money work better for you. Our diverse team is united in their mission of creating simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customer’s needs at thei…

Job Overview

Zopa’s Point of Sale tribe is looking for a Platform Engineer to help us scale and strengthen our infrastructure. This team supports customer financing at the checkout, connecting Zopa with UK retailers and marketplaces. In this role, you’ll ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and secure. You’ll help automate deployments, evolve our cloud infrastructure, and improve observability and developer experience — making it easier for product teams to deliver quality software quickly and safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Helping evolve our infrastructure platform to empower developers and increase autonomy
• Contributing to our Terraform automation strategy
• Improving CI/CD release processes and tooling with our platform and developer experience teams
• Ensuring our container platforms (including Kubernetes) are reliable, secure, and up to date
• Designing scalable, self-service tools to reduce operational toil
• Supporting infrastructure observability through metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Working closely with product teams to foster a culture of reliability engineering

Required Qualifications

Experience in a Platform/Site Reliability Engineering or similar role. Solid Linux admin skills (we use FlatcarOS & Amazon Linux). Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation). Comfortable scripting in Bash or Python. Experience with AWS or similar public cloud platforms. Strong containerisation knowledge (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).

About Zopa

Zopa started its journey in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. In 2020, Zopa Bank was launched, redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Zopa's vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre, empowering everyone to aim high and move finance forward.

Benefits

• Flexible ways of working
• Face-to-face collaboration
• Good work-life balance
• Hybrid role with the option to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year