Senior Cloud Platform Software Engineer

Description

• Support and mentor teammates, sharing knowledge and reviewing designs and code to maintain a high standard of engineering quality.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of our data platform — balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Participate in code reviews, planning, design discussions and general chit-chat, contributing to a healthy, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture
• Promote good practices in data engineering, including testing, scalability, maintainability, observability, documentation, and reliability.
• Actively contribute to Zenobe's commitment to health and safety, wellbeing and sustainability by; integrating these principles into daily responsibilities, ensuring a safe and supportive work environment, promoting both the physical and mental health of self and colleagues, and adopting sustainable and energy-efficient practices to minimize environmental impact. By doing so, each employee at Zenobe plays a vital role in fostering a culture that prioritises overall safety, holistic wellbeing, environmental sustainability in our business operations.
• Help the team unblock technical issues through pragmatic decisions and by bringing your experience to bear on tough problems.
• Drive incremental improvement by contributing to platform-level tooling, automation, and performance enhancements.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, real-time and batch data pipelines that support our products and analytics.
• Partner with stakeholders such as product, analytics, and data science teams to understand data needs and build fit-for-purpose solutions.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on experience and daily management of Kafka.
• Proficient with version control using Git and collaboration via Git-based workflows.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch).
• Solid understanding and practical experience with GitOps principles and tools, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
• A working knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Strong automation skills (e.g., Ansible, GitHub Actions) for reliability and operational tasks.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Control Tower etc.
• Worked in a cross-functional team as part of fast paced, rapidly evolving and dynamic organisation.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading others by example.
• Excellent communication skills, able to present technical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable taking part in out of hours on call support rota and have provided in and out-of-ours (by rota) L2/L3 technical support.
• Willing and able to travel to our head office in London or other locations within the UK for team meetings up to once a month.

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Cash back health plan
• £1,500 training budget per year, to ensure you grow as we do
• EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service up to 30 days, plus bank holidays
• Up to 33% annual bonus for being awesome
• Pension scheme, up to 8% matched contributions

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance