Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

The Zopa 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.

We're building a new tech hub right in the heart of the city — with real backing, big ambition and the support of an established, award-winning company. You'll be part of a new engineering chapter in Manchester, helping shape how we grow and build the team from day one, and create software and platforms with a purpose: to make finance fairer and more human. We work hybrid, with at least 2 days a week together in our Manchester office.

A Day in the Life

• 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

About You

• 4+ years 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)

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kafka in production (including multi-datacentre setup)
• Familiarity with service discovery (e.g. Consul, Istio, Linkerd)
• Knowledge of secrets management tools (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
• Good grasp of networking fundamentals (OSI model)

From September 2025, Zopa will be opening a brand-new office in Manchester at WeWork, Dalton Place, 29 John Dalton Street, M2 6WF. At Zopa we value flexible ways of working. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our Manchester office 2-3 days a week. You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we'll make sure you've got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one. *Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice

Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.