Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

Were looking for an exceptional Senior Platform Engineer to join Definely during a pivotal stage of growth. Senior Platform Engineers get involved with the whole product infrastructure and tooling building out novel and scalable solutions for engineers and customers. Were also responsible for reliability security and automation.

What youll do:

The work we do in platform is broad and deep but in a normal week youll be involved in:

• Own the operational performance of our systems analysing repetitive work and toil and automating where most advantageous

• Manage our CI/CD system and improve the developer experience whilst maintaining error budgets and deployment safety

• Design and architect our platform to support product needs at a strategic level

• Build a highly robust cloud environment (mostly AWS) through IaCautomation and best-fit architectures

• Leading projects of improvement to our platform and ensuring delivery according to plan

• Collaborating closely with product engineering security and leadership teams across the business

What youll bring:

• Strong experience in platform engineering DevOps or Infrastructure roles

• Expertise in Cloud tools and services (AWS is our primary cloud)

• Deep understanding of DevOps SRE practices

• Directing and architecting robust and resilient cloud services through IaC (we use Terraform)

• Knowledge of highly performant and strongly governed CI/CD practices and tooling

• Ability to lead technical projects and make pragmatic architectural decisions

Well be lucky if you:

• Have experience with security products and tooling and DevSecOps experience in a highly dynamic environment

• Have experience leading incident response and post incident reviews

• Deep experience with data platforms (databases queues caches storage etc.)

• Have experience building AI/ML infrastructure or workloads

• Have worked in high growth SaaS or startup environments

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary & annual bonus

• Share options

• Quarterly team socials & annual company offsite

• Hybrid working 1 month work from anywhere

• 25 days holiday bank holidays

• Take your birthday off

• 750 annual learning & development budget

• Private healthcare (incl. dental & optical)

• Enhanced parental leave

• Additional perks: Cycle to Work Workplace Nursery salary sacrifice scheme and top-quality equipment

About Definely

Definely builds specialist review tools for lawyers working on complex contracts. As AI accelerates the volume and pace of legal decisions Definely ensures lawyers can understand the full structure of a contract see the implications of every change and negotiate with confidence and control.

Launched in September 2020 by Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaeid who worked together at Freshfields Definely is trusted by over 150 in-house legal teams and private practice firms with thousands of users globally. Its customers span top Magic Circle and AMLaw 200 firms including A&O Shearman Slaughter and May DLA Piper KPMG Samsung and IKEA.
Definely recently raised its Series B and is backed by Microsoft Google and Octopus Ventures. This is a rare opportunity to shape a new category at the moment it becomes essential.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC