Platform Engineer

The role

We have big ambitions to deliver secure, large-scale and highly reliable systems to our customers by building platforms through code and automation.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer who has experience deploying and owning AWS within an Enterprise environment, championing infrastructure as code and automation.

Security is a cornerstone of our platform, and therefore experience of securing AWS across the entire platform is essential.

What you’ll do

Key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Build out platform services, leveraging infrastructure code
• Build automation pipelines to automate the deployment of code
• Work with platform lead and cloud architects to define and implement standards across our platforms
• Working with security team to implement security and governance controls on our platform

What you’ll need

• Working with Cloud within an Enterprise, including highly-secure and governed environments
• In-depth knowledge of AWS, specifically around Landing Zone tooling & platform engineering.
• Experience and expertise in: AWS Control Tower, AWS EC2, AWS EKS, Terraform, AWS access controls (SCP, IAM Roles, IAM Boundary policies), CI/CD pipeline automation, AWS networking and DNS, AWS S3, and AWS RDS
• 3+ years’ experience in a platform engineering role
• Experience with Helm, unit and behaviour driven development in Terraform, Github action, event-driven services in AWS, are a bonus.
• Experienced with and advocate of pair programming

Personal competencies

• Highly collaborative, quickly builds trust and respect
• Good stakeholder management skills and relationship building skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Pragmatic thinking, able to balance short term and long-term priorities
• Proactive issue and risk management approach
• Ability to understand complex technical issues involving the complex interaction of several systems
• Flexibility able to adopt to rapidly changing situations
• Attention to detail
• Delivery focused, and results driven

Why GSS?

• Opportunity to join a growing start up and have real impact
• 30 days holiday (not including bank holidays)
• Generous pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Virtual GP
• Life assurance
• Flexible hybrid working environment
• The option to ‘Work Elsewhere’ whether abroad or elsewhere in the UK for up to 4 weeks per year

Our Purpose

Why we are here: To support a safe and efficient global financial system.

What we are doing

We are developing partnerships and platforms that have a positive impact globally. Our first solution addresses the friction in the global payment system caused by sanctions. This friction is greatest in the international payments system. Getting this right represents a material commercial opportunity for the industry.

How we do this

We bring together people and organisations from around the world to develop and deliver market leading solutions that solve complex industry challenges.

Are you ready to be part of the revolutionary organisation that will solve one of the most critical challenges facing the financial services industry?

Our Values

Take Ownership: Seize the moment and be proud of what we do.

Be Respectful: Creating and cultivating a culture where everyone feels safe, included and respected.

Be Bold: Our attitude and conviction drive our success; with motivation, we can achieve anything.

Diversity statement

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.