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RVU

Senior Platform Engineer

RVU

Senior Platform Engineer managing cloud infrastructure for brands like Uswitch and Money.co.uk. Collaborating with teams to enhance services and drive technological improvements.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudGoKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Excellence: work alongside established and experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding and utilisation of modern technology
  • Collaboration: work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers
  • Autonomy: authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
  • Data Driven: utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security and reliability
  • Culture: enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch-ups, working groups, and 'All Hands'
  • Experience: enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge and expertise in a continuous learning environment.
  • As a key member of the platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following:
  • Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement
  • Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
  • Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
  • Responsible for the entire stack to meet business requirements
  • Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices
  • Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
  • Mentoring and coaching engineers, and presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation.
  • As a Staff Platform Engineer at RVU you will be expected to:
  • Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
  • Manage your time effectively between team and organisational level contributions
  • Rotate around the business to build relationships and act as a multiplier.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience in running Kubernetes clusters in production
  • Knowledge of Golang, Helm, and Terraform (some knowledge of Python is definitely a plus)
  • Production experience in Cilium and/or eBPF and networking in general
  • Extensive experience in monitoring systems and their performance
  • The ability to debug large and complex systems and solving large problems that affect a wide user base in a simple way
  • Experience with image vulnerability scanning and patching strategies for large systems
  • Experience / Familiarity with AWS Multi Accounts system designs tools like Crossplane and Control Tower
  • Familiarity with Argo Workflows or similar data pipeline as a service tools
  • Familiarity working with a variety of Cloud Native projects
  • Familiarity with Github Action
  • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
  • A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
  • Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
  • A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
  • Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
  • 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
  • Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
  • A healthy learning and training budget
  • Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
  • Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
  • Free breakfast in the office daily
  • You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
  • Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
  • Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.

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Hard Skills & Tools
GolangTerraformKubernetesCiliumEBPFAWS Multi AccountsImage Vulnerability ScanningDebugging Complex SystemsOpenTelemetryArgo Workflows
Soft Skills
CollaborationMentoringAutonomyCommunicationProblem Solving