Ophelos · We're hiring

Platform Engineer

Craft and maintain the technology backbone that powers Ophelos.

You'll build the platform that empowers financial health for consumers and businesses. DevOps at its core — Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, AWS, security. Your work directly determines how reliably and fast our engineers ship, and how stable our systems are for our customers. Aligned with our vision of a financially educated and equal world.

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The basics
Where you'll be and how we hybrid.
Location
1 Finsbury Ave
London EC2M 2PF
In the office
3 days a week
Team
Platform
What we're looking for

Key skills

No one is the finished article — but some experience matters for this role. Here's what we're really looking for.

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Kubernetes & IaC

Strong understanding of Kubernetes and containerisation (Docker). Comfortable with GitOps practices and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi). You've built and run production K8s estates, not just touched them.

02

CI/CD & AWS

Proficient with deployment pipelines — CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Argo. Familiar with AWS-based infrastructure (EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, Kinesis) and grounded in networking/DNS fundamentals (OSI layers).

03

Security & operations

Experience with security operations and best practices — vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring. You think about platform stability, uptime, and error rates as primary success metrics, not afterthoughts.

The team

Who you'll work with

This is your team. The Platform crew you'd be building, running, and on-call alongside.

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Simon Lao
Platform Engineer
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Wayne Parker
Platform Engineer
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Dhyan Selvam
Senior Platform Engineer
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Ciaran Lofts
Tech Lead
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The role

What you'll be doing

You'll craft and maintain the technology backbone that powers Ophelos. Your DevOps expertise is what enables our engineers to ship reliably, our infra to scale, and our systems to stay secure and fast. Success is measured concretely: reduced deployment times, systems stability (uptime, error rates), and positive feedback from the teams you serve.

How your time breaks down
40% · Developer experience
Collaborating with the tech team to streamline our deployment process and improve developer experience. You're the reason engineers can ship fast and confidently — pipelines, tooling, paved paths.
30% · DevOps reliability & scale
Developing and enhancing our DevOps practices, ensuring the platform's reliability and scalability. Build sustainable systems — highly available, highly resilient — that scale with the business.
30% · Security, monitoring & performance
Proactive systems monitoring, issue resolution, and continuous improvement. Own infrastructure and security projects and lead Security, Infrastructure, and Performance initiatives. Mentor less experienced members of the team as we grow.
A day in the life

A typical day mixes building, supporting, and shipping. You might be improving a CI/CD pipeline, debugging an EKS rollout, responding to a Datadog alert, or pairing with a product engineer on a deployment problem. Regular time goes into IaC (Terraform/Pulumi), GitOps workflows, and security tooling. Three days a week you're in the Liverpool Street office with Simon, Wayne, Dhyan, and Ciaran — the platform crew. LLM tooling (Claude Code, Codex, OpenSpec) is part of how the wider org works; you'll use it day-to-day and help shape how it shows up in platform work.

How we work

Ways of working and the stack

How we work
  • Platform-as-product — your customers are the engineers across Ophelos.
  • GitOps and IaC by default — no clicking around in cloud consoles.
  • LLM-first across the wider org — Claude Code, Codex, OpenSpec are part of how engineers work.
  • Hybrid — three days a week in-person at our office near Liverpool Street.
Tech stack
  • AWS EKS · RDS · ElastiCache · Kinesis
  • Kubernetes · Docker (containerised services)
  • Ruby on Rails (the main app)
  • Databricks (orchestrating AI & data pipelines)
  • Terraform · Pulumi (IaC)
Tools
  • GitHub Actions · Argo (CI/CD)
  • Datadog (observability & monitoring)
  • Claude Code · Codex (LLM coding tools)
  • OpenSpec (LLM-powered spec-driven development)
What to expect

Our hiring process

Designed to be honest about how you'll actually work — not a series of hoops. Four stages, no take-homes.

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Stage 1
Screening call
25 min · with Will from People & Talent
A quick intro — your background, why Ophelos, and the practicals.
  • Walk through your experience
  • Why Ophelos, why now
  • Practicalities — comp, notice, location
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Stage 2
Technical task
~60 min · with two engineers from the Platform team
A platform engineering task — typically something like a Helm chart, IaC, or pipeline. Walk us through how you approach it.
  • Pair on a representative platform task
  • Use your real day-to-day toolkit, including any LLM tools you reach for
  • Discuss tradeoffs and architecture as you go
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Stage 3
Values & culture
45 min · with two members of the wider team
A real values interview — focused on how you operate independently in ambiguity. Not a rubber stamp.
  • How you handle ambiguous, fast-changing work
  • What you need from a team to do your best work
  • Meet some of the wider team
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Stage 4
Founder final
30 min · with one of our founders
A conversation with one of our founders to close out the decision.
  • The bigger picture for Ophelos and Intrum
  • Mutual fit check
  • Any open questions