Senior Platform Engineer
Bauer Media Outdoor UK
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Own and evolve the core platform capabilities that underpin critical internal systems.
- Support over €1bn in revenue and millions of transactions per day.
- Ensure the platform scales predictably, remains stable under pressure, and fails gracefully.
- Define, document, and own non-functional requirements across various parameters.
- Design and implement platform patterns to assist product teams in meeting requirements.
- Conduct performance, load, stress, concurrency, and soak tests.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the platform.
- Drive continuous improvement in platform design and usage.
Requirements
- Strong experience as a Senior Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar role with real production ownership.
- Deep understanding of non-functional requirements including performance, availability, resilience, capacity, operability, security constraints, cost, and maintainability.
- Solid knowledge of AWS architecture and how platform decisions affect scaling behaviour, service limits, and cost efficiency.
- Hands-on experience with performance and reliability tooling such as JMeter, Gatling, Locust, k6, or equivalent.
- Ability to diagnose issues end-to-end, from user experience through to infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Someone who challenges assumptions early, uses evidence, and raises engineering standards across teams.
- Clear awareness of platform maintenance responsibilities and the downstream impact on product teams and customers.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
platform engineeringsite reliability engineeringnon-functional requirementsperformance testingload testingstress testingconcurrency testingsoak testingAWS architecturediagnosing issues
Soft Skills
continuous improvementchallenging assumptionsevidence-based decision makingraising engineering standardsawareness of platform maintenance responsibilities