What you'll be doing

Design, build, and operate capabilities within Wise’s Continuous Delivery platform.
Evolve the use of the Open Source CD tool Spinnaker and contribute improvements upstream where appropriate.
Build reliable guardrails that help engineers deploy changes safely with minimal manual effort.
Improve the shared foundations of the platform in partnership with other Platform Engineering teams.
Use telemetry and feedback to understand platform performance and identify engineer friction points.
Work directly with engineering teams adopting new deployment patterns and platform capabilities.
Contribute to technical design, code reviews, documentation, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

Strong experience building and operating production systems in Java.
Experience designing distributed services and APIs, including testing, monitoring, and failure handling.
Practical experience with a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
Experience working with containers and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
Track record of automating operational work and building repeatable tooling.
Experience owning shared or mission-critical infrastructure.
Ability to turn complex requirements into understandable, maintainable solutions.
Willingness to challenge existing approaches, share knowledge, and learn from others.
Experience discovering complex problems across multiple teams and business functions.

Experience with Spinnaker or another large-scale CI/CD platform.
Practical experience applying SRE principles, including service-level objectives and automated incident prevention.
Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, or distributed tracing.
Knowledge of cloud networking and security.
Experience working in regulated environments or with standards like PCI DSS.
Experience with capacity planning, performance testing, or load testing.
Experience producing clear technical documentation and architecture diagrams.

Meaningful influence over a platform used by engineers across Wise.
Opportunity to solve engineering problems at company-wide scale.
Scope to contribute to open source software.
Support to develop technical leadership and help other teams improve software delivery.
Flexible working environment and regular team and company events.
Starting salary: £87,500-£111,000 plus RSUs.