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Career track: IC4
Unit: Shared services
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you help set the strategy for Genio's infrastructure end-to-end — from design through to running it in production. You work with squads on feature work to advise/set direction, and ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You drive the design and implementation of best-practice cloud infrastructure, automation frameworks, and tooling that enable scalability, reliability, and efficiency for engineering teams in both business units. Working closely with engineers, testers, and data colleagues, you lead initiatives to enhance platform capabilities, optimise performance, and champion DevOps principles.
Career track: IC4
Unit: Shared services
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you help set the strategy for Genio's infrastructure end-to-end — from design through to running it in production. You work with squads on feature work to advise/set direction, and ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You drive the design and implementation of best-practice cloud infrastructure, automation frameworks, and tooling that enable scalability, reliability, and efficiency for engineering teams in both business units. Working closely with engineers, testers, and data colleagues, you lead initiatives to enhance platform capabilities, optimise performance, and champion DevOps principles.
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You will report to the Principal Platform Engineer and work most closely with:
Principal Platform Engineer (Operations)
Platform Engineer (Operations)
Engineering teams in both business units
Production Support Engineer (Operations)
Senior Data Engineer (Operations)
Systems design and judgement: Takes an ambiguous problem, defines options, makes trade-offs explicit, and writes clear design documents.
Programming Skills: Strong experience in scripting and programming with Python and/or Bash for automation and tooling.
Infrastructure as Code: Proficient with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
Cloud Platforms: Strong experience with AWS or Google Cloud.
Kubernetes in production: Experience operating, upgrading, networking, and debugging Kubernetes clusters under load.
Reliability Engineering & Security: Proven ownership of production service reliability (defining SLIs, incident response) and implementing security practices (access control, secrets management, patching, backup/recovery).
AI-Assisted Development: Comfortable and proficient with AI development tools as part of everyday engineering.
Cost Awareness: Understanding of infrastructure costs and the ability to build cases for spending changes.
Collaboration & Adaptability: Ability to mentor others, foster trust, make pragmatic technology choices, and communicate with "passionate views, loosely held".
We’ll review your application and provide a response within 1 week. Even if it’s not the news you’d hoped for, we appreciate it’s good to know either way.
If we invite you to meet with us for interview, here’s an overview of what the process will look like:
Screening interview with our Recruitment Business Partner
A take-home technical test for you to complete offline and submit back to us
A technical interview with Mark, Staff Platform Engineer and an Engineer from the Platform Operations team
A CV review and Cultural & Values interview with Mark and our Head of Engineering, Mala
Ahead of your interview you will receive a confirmation email outlining who you’ll be meeting and when, anything you’ll need to prepare in advance and any resources we think you might find helpful.
Here are a few further resources:
About Genio
Life at Genio
Case studies and user stories
Let’s connect! Reach out to recruitment@genio.co and we’ll add you to our network, to keep you updated with any future opportunities we think you might be interested in.
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UK private software company creating learning and note-taking tools for higher-education students and institutions.
Visit company websiteGBP 70000-76000 yearly / year
Full-time
Senior
Hybrid
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