Overview

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As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving our platform to make it easier, faster, safer, and simpler for developers to deliver business value. You’ll combine hands-on technical delivery with strategic thinking, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to ensure our services are resilient, reliable, and secure.

What you’ll do

The work is varied and dynamic. Much of your time will be spent on strategic platform improvements and feature delivery, but you’ll also contribute to supporting engineering teams and assisting in incident response when needed. Because of the breadth of our platform scope—from infrastructure and developer experience to observability and traffic management—you’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of technologies, even if that means we’re not deep specialists in every area. Strategic change is delivered incrementally, and you’ll need to make thoughtful trade-offs to maximise impact with the time and resources available.

Current challenges we’re tackling include:

• Making it simpler for developers to manage web traffic, particularly bots and crawlers.
• Reducing complexity and sprawl in infrastructure management, especially within Terraform.
• Improving the developer experience of our platform services, with a focus on self-service.
• Enhancing observability for traffic and ingress, building on our strong foundations with Datadog.

This role is ideal for someone who brings broad technical experience, thrives in a collaborative and sometimes ambiguous environment, and enjoys being hands-on while also influencing long-term direction.

What we're offering

• Summer Fridays
• Competitive holiday benefits - 25 days a year paid holiday, plus 8 bank holidays (increases 1 day a year up to 30 days)
• Hybrid working - 3 days a week in the office
• Closed for Christmas holidays - Extra days not taken from your annual holiday allowance
• Work from anywhere for 2 weeks a year
• Life Assurance and Income Protection to protect your loved ones
• Benefits allowance for health, dental, and vision coverage
• Six months paid maternity leave, and one month paid paternity leave (subject to qualifying conditions) inclusive of same-sex and adoptive parents
• Defined Contribution Pension and Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Be Well: Our wellbeing and mental health programme
• Family Forward support for MVF parents
• 2 charity days a year
• Free breakfast when in the office

Our Team

MVF’s Technology team vision is to create the world's leading digital marketing platform that drives long-term client growth. We recognise the key role outstanding engineers play in helping us achieve it. The engineering team delivers bespoke products that have contributed to MVF being recognised as the UK's Fastest Growing Tech Firm. The platform engineering team supports MVF’s success by enabling development teams to deliver business value faster, safer, and more easily.

Responsibilities

• Work with other platform engineers to support, operate, and enhance our platform services
• Collaborate with stakeholders, especially engineering teams, to discover, refine, propose, and deliver improvements or changes to our platform services
• Own the design and delivery of changes to our platform services
• Participate in incident investigation and resolution
• Improve the tools, processes, and working practices of the team
• Advocate for the adoption and effective use of platform services, helping teams understand their value and ensuring they are easy to consume

What Success Looks Like

• Delivering technical change on schedule, to specification, with minimal incidents
• Proactively engaging with stakeholders to identify needs and contribute to effective solutions
• Taking ownership of features from planning through deployment and monitoring, even in fast-moving or ambiguous situations
• Partnering with Senior and Lead Engineers to shape architectural direction and strategy
• Actively participating in agile ceremonies and team collaboration
• Sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and strengthening adoption of platform services across engineering

Our Ideal MVFer

• Track record of owning and delivering technical change in collaboration with others
• Bias for action, especially when faced with technical ambiguity
• Experience with Agile practices and continuous improvement
• Able to communicate effectively with different stakeholders
• Methodical approach to problem solving and debugging
• Awareness of tradeoff between perfect and done
• A collaborative mindset, eager to listen, share knowledge, and mentor others
• Desire and aptitude for learning

Technical experience and exposure

• AWS, including VPC, ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS/SNS, S3, CloudTrail, IAM
• Web and API traffic management (e.g., Fastly) and API ingress
• Cloud Databases (MySQL, Postgres)
• Terraform/OpenTofu for multi-environment cloud and third-party services
• Docker and container scheduling systems (ECS/EKS, K8s, Nomad)
• Datadog or similar observability tools
• CI/CD (CircleCI)
• Networking (DNS, TCP/UDP, HTTP(s), load balancers)
• Security concepts and tooling (least privilege, AWS IAM, TLS, scanning tools)
• User and system access management (Auth0, SSO, Oauth/OIDC, SAML)
• Disaster recovery planning and management
• Scripting with Python (or similar) and Bash
• Proficiency with AI tooling

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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