Senior Platform Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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GoHenry

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201 - 500 employees

💳 Fintech

📚 Education

Fintech • Education

GoHenry is a financial technology company launched in 2012 with the mission to make every kid smart with money. It offers a prepaid debit card and a financial learning app aimed at children ages 6 to 18. Through its parent and child apps, GoHenry provides tools for learning about money through earning, saving, spending responsibly, and giving, all under parental oversight. The platform also incorporates gamified financial education experiences through in-app Money Missions, making it a fun and rewarding way for youngsters to develop financial literacy. With over 1. 5 million members, GoHenry is foster a global movement towards improved financial education among youth.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and own infrastructure systems end-to-end, from initial design through to production operation. • Write high-quality, well-tested infrastructure code using Terraform, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipelines, actively contributing to team-wide standards. • Take ownership of complex production incidents—diagnosing, resolving, and driving blameless post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence. • Contribute to architectural discussions with well-reasoned proposals backed by practical experience. • Stay current with the cloud ecosystem and bring concrete, considered recommendations for tooling and approaches to the team. • Maintain a consistently high bar for scalability, resilience, and reliability across your areas of ownership. • Implement and improve observability using meaningful metrics, structured logging, and actionable alerting that surfaces real signals. • Ensure all infrastructure is version-controlled, reviewable, and reproducible, following infrastructure-as-code principles throughout. • Design and operate systems with security and compliance in mind—ensuring adherence to industry best practices and supporting audit requirements such as PCI-DSS and SOC 2. • Work closely with tech squads to help them consume platform capabilities effectively and unblock their delivery. • Partner with backend, data, and security engineers to align on shared infrastructure patterns and standards. • Communicate clearly about infrastructure changes, risks, and ongoing work to the teams that depend on the platform.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep, hands-on Google Cloud experience (including GKE and Cloud SQL), with a strong grasp of GCP's networking and security model (experience with Cloudflare is a bonus) • Strong hands-on Kubernetes skills and a practical understanding of container orchestration in a production environment • Proficiency in writing and standardising infrastructure code with Terraform, Helm, and modern CI/CD tooling • Proven track record as a strong individual contributor who takes end-to-end ownership of complex technical work • Good working knowledge of observability tooling (such as Datadog) to configure metrics, logging, and alerting systems that genuinely inform on-call response • A passion for sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, writing documentation, and helping fellow engineers grow.

🏖️ Benefits

• All the essentials you would expect, including a workplace pension plan • 33 days of holiday (including public holidays) • Great company events local & abroad! • GoFlex - Work from Home, Office, or a mix of both • Your Birthday Day off • 25 days annual leave, in addition to 8 UK bank holidays • An excellent Induction & onboarding program with ongoing learning & development throughout your career • A choice between Bupa Health Cash Plan or Bupa Private Medical • Death in service – 4x your annual salary from month 1 • Physical and Mental Wellbeing support and platforms for you and your family • Family-friendly leave policies • Enhanced maternity leave – 20 weeks full basic pay after 2 years’ service and 26 weeks full basic pay after 3 years’ service • Paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay after probation • Salary Sacrifice options