Senior Platform Engineer
About The Role
Hippo Digital is seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to join our Managed Services team. You will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure of multiple client environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and optimal performance.Your expertise in Java (particularly Spring Boot) and AWS will be critical in supporting our clients’ platforms and driving forward technical solutions.
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Hippo, you'll be a key contributor within a multi-disciplinary team, working on digital solutions that deliver real value to users. You’ll collaborate with internal teams and clients to provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering, guiding platform development and operational excellence.
Requirements of the Role- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain user-centered solutions that meet client requirements.
- Ensure the reliability and scalability of platforms through monitoring, troubleshooting, and proactive maintenance.
- Lead the design and management of infrastructure deployment pipelines, addressing issues and challenges before they impact operations.
- Maintain strong client relationships by providing clear communication, updates, and technical expertise.
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on platform engineering, infrastructure management, and cloud services.
- Mentor and support other engineers in the team, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
We need people who are open to new technologies, quick to adapt, and quick to learn. If you don’t have one of the following please apply and we can discuss in more detail.
Required Skills and Experience- Strong experience in Java development, with deep knowledge of Spring Boot and associated libraries.
- Experience with AWS services and infrastructure, including hands-on experience with provisioning and managing cloud environments.
- Experience in a range of architecture approaches, containerization, and building scalable, resilient systems.
- Expertise in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Github Actions, CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild, or similar.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform, Pulimi, AWS CDK, or similar.
- Proven ability to work within Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and a Test-Driven Development (TDD) environment.
- Strong communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in managing multiple client environments, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance optimisation.
- Understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and how they integrate with back-end systems.
- Familiarity with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty for real-time monitoring and alert management.
- Understanding and experience with IT Service Management (ITSM) tools and processes, including ticket management systems (e.g., HaloPSA).
- Experience with Python development.
- Knowledge of Node.js, particularly in building and maintaining AWS Lambda functions.
- Understanding of authentication and identity management solutions, including OAuth2 and related technologies.
About The Company
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
- Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
- 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
- Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- private health cover
- private dental cover
- additional company pension contributions
- additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- wellbeing contribution
- charity contributions
- tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo
At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.
We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture.We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.
Hi, we’re Hippo.At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations.
Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do.If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.
Hippo locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and located across the UK in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide, so don't let location hold you back from applying. We welcome candidates from all over the UK who possess the flexibility to work from any of our locations.Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one. It's worth noting that, given the dynamic nature of our business, you may be required to work on-site at client locations or from your own home.