Senior Platform Engineer
At Global, we think big, work hard, and never stand still. We’re the proud home of the best media and entertainment, driven by our talented and passionate people. Our mission? To make everyone’s day brighter - our Globallers, our audiences, our partners, and our communities. Whether we’re in the studio, building world-class technology, or securing record Outdoor advertising partnerships, we make sure we’re doing it as a team.
Your Role: Senior Platform Engineer
Join our Platform team and help shape the systems that power Global’s technology platforms. Working across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and application hosting environments, you’ll develop and improve scalable, reliable solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation.
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Engineering & Automation: Support, maintain, and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform.
- Technical Leadership & Best Practice: Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices across security, performance, maintainability, and testing. Contribute to technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
- Operational Excellence & Collaboration: Maintain reliable production environments, improve observability and monitoring systems, and respond to proactive and reactive support alerts. Work collaboratively across the Technology department while mentoring and supporting other engineers.
What You’ll Love About This Role
- Think Big: Work across a broad range of business-critical systems and technologies that have real impact across Global.
- Own It: Take responsibility for improving platform reliability, automation, and deployment processes in a modern engineering environment.
- Keep it Simple: Solve complex technical challenges using industry-standard tooling and scalable engineering practices.
- Better Together: Be part of a collaborative team culture that values code reviews, pair programming, continuous integration, learning, and knowledge sharing.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Built a strong understanding of our existing build and deployment architecture
- Contributed improvements to technical solutions and ways of working
- Delivered new features, fixes, and platform enhancements
- Demonstrated a collaborative approach to problem-solving and delivery
- Shared knowledge with the team while continuing to develop new skills
What You’ll Need
- Platform & Cloud Engineering Experience: Strong experience solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems, with exposure to AWS and Kubernetes environments
- Software Development & Automation Skills: Experience working across the full software development lifecycle with strong coding and automation capabilities
- Systems Thinking: Understanding of system architecture and the ability to think end-to-end across platforms and services
- Quality Engineering Mindset: Experience writing well-tested, maintainable, secure, and performant code, including infrastructure testing (e.g. Terraform Testing, BDD-style integration tests)
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in multi-tenant environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
Creating a place we all belong at Global
We are dedicated to creating a place where different voices are represented, amplified and celebrated. We know that we can’t serve our diverse audiences without first celebrating it in our people, which is why we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture where every Globaller can belong. So, no matter who you are or where you are from, you can find your place at Global.
As a business, we believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible and agile workforce. Therefore, we operate a Smart Working approach. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during your recruitment process, drop us an email at [email protected], we’ll be happy to help.
Skills Required
- Experience with AWS cloud environments
- Experience with Kubernetes (production clusters)
- Experience with Jenkins and GitHub for CI/CD
- Proficiency in Python
- Proficiency in Java or Groovy
- Proficiency in Go
- Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation
- Experience with infrastructure testing (e.g., Terraform testing) and BDD-style integration tests
- Experience improving observability and monitoring of production systems
- Proven ability to lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders in multi-tenant environments
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold. Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers. Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
