Platform Enablement Engineer

Description

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Nice to have

• Experience with API gateway technologies (e.g. Kong)

• Familiarity with Internal Developer Portal concepts

• On-prem infrastructure: VM provisioning and lifecycle management, workload orchestration (e.g. Nomad), secrets management (e.g. Vault), artifact management (e.g. Artifactory)

The Perks

• Matched giving for your fundraising activity

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities

• Performance-related bonuses

• Insurance and medical plans

• Career-focused technical and leadership training in-class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform

• Contribution to gym memberships and more

• Free Lunch/Snacks

• A day off on your birthday

• Two days’ volunteering leave per year.

How we work

• Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm

• Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes

• Champion the client: Understand and prioritise client's needs

• Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;

• Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback

What you’ll do

• Provide architectural guidance on well-established patterns, under the direction of a senior engineer for anything outside your depth.

• Run time-boxed enablement engagements of moderate complexity, with clear scope and a defined handover.

• Contribute to and maintain a library of reusable Infrastructure-as-Code modules and CI/CD pipeline templates.

• Help define and apply engineering standards consistently across engagements.

• Provide short, structured hyper care support after handover.

• Maintain clear documentation (runbooks, onboarding guides, decision logs) as you go.

• Help track engagement and support data to spot recurring issues, and flag them upward.

• Surface early signals of platform friction to senior engineers for escalation.

What you’ll need for this role

• 4–6 years in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering roles.

• Solid, hands-on working knowledge across most of the following:Cloud infrastructure: AWSCI/CD pipelines (GitLab or equivalent)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)Observability tooling (e.g. Open Telemetry, Honeycomb, CloudWatch)ITSM/workflow tooling (e.g. ServiceNow, Jira) for engagement and request tracking

• Cloud infrastructure: AWS

• CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or equivalent)

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)

• Observability tooling (e.g. Open Telemetry, Honeycomb, CloudWatch)

• ITSM/workflow tooling (e.g. ServiceNow, Jira) for engagement and request tracking

• Clear written and verbal communication — able to document decisions and explain trade-offs to engineering teams.

• Comfort taking direction from senior engineers while building toward independent ownership.

• A documentation-first habit — you write things down as you go, not after the fact.