Platform Engineer

V7 turns human knowledge into trustworthy AI, powering products that solve our hardest problems. Our platform lets customers build no-code AI workflows that solve knowledge work with V7 Go, and leverage expert humans to improve frontier AI model knowledge with V7 Darwin.

V7 were recently ranked No 1 in Sifted’s top B2B companies for 2024 and raised a $33m Series A including the AI Fund @ Radical Ventures. We are backed by some of the best minds in AI, from Ashish Vaswani (Invented Transformers, the basis of GPT) Oriol Vinyals (Google Deepmind and Gemini co-lead), Christian Szegedy (X.ai) and AI leadership at Amazon, X, Isomorphic, and Google. V7 is used to power AI’s rollout at Fortune 500 organisations including Sony, Boston Scientific and Genentech.

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About the role:

Are you someone who gets excited about building strong, reliable infrastructure and making life easier for developers? We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to join our team and help us take our multi-cloud, multi-region environment to the next level.

You (Platform Engineer) will act as a strategic partner to engineering teams, designing scalable solutions, automating workflows, and driving best practices to balance performance, security, and cost efficiency.

If you thrive on solving complex challenges, fostering innovation, improving developer productivity, reducing cognitive load through automation and tooling, and empowering teams through robust infrastructure, this role is for you.

What you'll be doing (Platform Engineer):

• Architect, deploy, and manage AWS-first infrastructure, with secondary support for GCP and Azure.

• Optimize multi-region/multi-cloud setups for high availability, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency.

• Collaborate with engineering teams, listening to their needs and challenges, and delivering solutions that help them succeed.

• Build and implement tools that make it easier for developers to collaborate and streamline their daily workflows.

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects, make data-driven decisions, and proactively drive initiatives to successful completion.

• Identify and fix bottlenecks or pain points in our development and deployment processes, so teams can work more efficiently and deliver faster.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and reporting to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

• Lead the way in applying FinOps principles, helping us get the most out of our cloud resources and encouraging smart, cost-effective choices across the team.

• Join our on-call rotation to help keep our platform running reliably around the clock.

Required Experience And Skills

• Deep expertise in AWS, especially with multi-region and hybrid cloud architectures. Experience with GCP and Azure is a big plus.

• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of infrastructure and implement scalable, developer-friendly solutions.

• Proficiency in Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure in a consistent and automated way.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or ArgoCD, with a focus on streamlining code deployment.

• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker for container management and orchestration in cloud environments.

• Experience working with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana to ensure system reliability and visibility.

• Advanced skills in either Python, or Elixir, or a strong willingness to learn new programming languages as needed.

• Proven track record of collaborating closely with engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver impactful solutions enhancing developer productivity.

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

What's in it for you?

• Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme

• Private Healthcare & dental care via Bupa for our UK employees

• Pension contribution through Nest

• £800 Learning and Development budget

• Apple MacBook suitable for your role

• Monthly wellbeing and mental health budget via ThanksBen

• Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben

• Enhanced Parental Leave

• 30 days holiday, plus an additional year for every day of service with V7, plus Bank Holidays on top

• 4-day company-wide and 4 day departmental retreats in stunning locations

• Hybrid working with flexibility, role dependent

• Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year

• Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, ...) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times