Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Department: Platform Engineering

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid / Flexible Working

Salary: Up £65,000 depending on experience  + up to 20% annual bonus + benefits

Stability, flexibility and the opportunity to work on greenfield projects within one of Europe’s leading financial experts, does that sound interesting to you?

LDMS - About Us

Founded in 2018, LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 3 pillar organisation that has over 950 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.

We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not only write quality code but think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.

The Role

As a Senior Platform Engineer at LDMS, you will be responsible for the cloud infrastructure that underpins our SaaS products and internal tooling. In addition, we are also looking for engineers who are comfortable getting involved with other technology streams, such as Oracle Database & Middleware Administration and End User Computing. Whilst these would not be the focus of the role, you would be expected to help meet business requirements when needed.

The right candidate:

• Accomplishes tasks independently by planning possible solutions, implementing them and testing their correctness.
• Takes time to analyse existing infrastructure and propose improvements
• Shares their knowledge and explain your work to others by writing documentation
• Provides guidance and mentoring to Junior Engineers in matters of technology, architecture and best practices
• Explores new technologies by building proof-of-concept solutions
• Understands that constant learning underpins good engineering

Requirements

Essential:

• Ability to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure that supports production services, with an understanding of how platforms evolve to meet changing technical and business needs.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ECS, RDS, and IAM, alongside a practical understanding of cloud security, networking, and scalability.
• Proven use of Infrastructure-as-Code tools (for example, Terraform or similar) to deliver repeatable, version-controlled, and well-governed infrastructure.
• Familiarity with building and improving CI/CD pipelines that enable automated, reliable delivery of infrastructure and platform changes.
• Working knowledge of observability practices and tooling, including metrics, logging, and alerting, with an understanding of how observability supports reliable operations and incident response.
• Acts as a senior technical contributor, offering guidance, design input, and constructive review to other engineers, and helping shape shared engineering standards and approaches.

Desirable:

• Ability to automate tasks and workflows using a high-level language such as Shell or Python.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 services such as Entra ID, Intune, Defender, and Conditional Access, particularly in security-conscious environments.
• Exposure to relational database platforms such as PostgreSQL or Oracle, including general administration and collaboration with application teams.
• Familiarity with networking concepts – VPCs, subnets, routes, gateways, firewall rules, NAT etc.
• OS Administration of Linux and Windows machines – including directly through command line and Ansible configuration management

Benefits

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%) 
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 
• 1 day Birthday leave
• 1 day Charity leave 
• Private Health Insurance 
• EAP 
• Pension (3% / 5% contribution) 
• Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)