Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud Economics & Capacity Management

Overview

At the company, we believe the best banking experience starts with people who genuinely care. We’re not just delivering banking services – we’re building trust through authentic connections. Our team values individuality, collaboration, and long‑standing relationships. We also prioritise work‑life balance, offering hybrid working where possible.

Location: Holborn, Greater London

Responsibilities

• Help shape the company’s next‑generation approach to cloud economics, platform consumption and capacity management across Azure, Rackspace and engineering platforms such as GitHub and Copilot.
• Work closely with Operations and Engineering teams to improve visibility, drive optimisation opportunities and embed cost‑conscious engineering practices into the software delivery lifecycle.
• Define and evolve FinOps, capacity management and consumption management practices for NextGen platforms.
• Partner with Operations teams to improve forecasting, reporting and governance across cloud, infrastructure and engineering tooling spend.
• Drive optimisation opportunities through architecture, instance selection, scheduling, utilisation management and automation.
• Establish standards, guardrails and reporting that enable teams to make informed technical and financial decisions.
• Leverage AI and data‑driven insights to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Influence engineering teams to adopt cost‑conscious behaviours without compromising resilience, security or delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong platform engineering or cloud architecture background, particularly in Azure.
• Experience improving cloud economics, utilisation, capacity planning or platform cost management within an enterprise environment.
• Understanding of public cloud, private cloud, Kubernetes, virtual machines and subscription‑based engineering platforms.
• Able to influence technology decisions, challenge existing practices and drive adoption of better engineering behaviours.
• Understand the risks associated with your role and what that means for the company and all stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus and a wide range of benefits including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare and life assurance.
• Opportunities for training and internal career progression.

Diversity & Flexibility

We value diverse teams. Flexible working arrangements are considered on a case‑by‑case basis. If you feel you can meet the role’s requirements but are not 100% there yet, we encourage you to apply.

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