Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Our Cloud Infrastructure team builds, operates, and improves the shared cloud platforms that support Wayve's engineering organisation. We work with engineering teams to create secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure that meets application needs and supports scalable software delivery. As a Platform Engineer, you'll work across cloud foundations, Terraform, Kubernetes, developer environments, observability, and FinOps. This is a hands-on role with opportunities to deepen your expertise in cloud infrastructure and governance, security and FinOps tooling, automation, observability, and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

Build and operate secure, scalable cloud environments with consistent governance and standards; Develop Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and self-service tooling that make infrastructure provisioning and change safe and repeatable; Own the lifecycle and governance of Kubernetes clusters, continuously improving how they are provisioned, configured, upgraded, maintained, and recovered; Operate and improve shared developer environments and observability platforms; Work with engineering teams to ensure platforms meet application needs and support scalable software delivery; Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of infrastructure and operational practices

Requirements

Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills; 3 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes administration, developer infrastructure, or related engineering roles; Experience with at least one cloud platform, such as Azure, AWS, or GCP; Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, such as Terraform and Ansible; Experience with container technologies such as Docker or Podman; Experience with Linux environments, including distributions like Ubuntu; Experience with networking, cloud architecture, system reliability, and secure access controls; Experience with Linux, Git, and shell scripting

Nice to have

Experience with multi-cloud governance, including neocloud environments; Experience building self-service infrastructure tools, standard provisioning workflows, or reusable platform capabilities; Experience operating observability platforms for metrics, logs, and traces, using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry; Experience managing developer environments, such as Coder or comparable remote development platforms; Experience implementing infrastructure security guardrails in partnership with security teams; Experience improving platform reliability through incident response, recovery procedures, and reducing operational toil; Experience with FinOps tools, improving cloud cost efficiency and operational resilience

Benefits

Salaries benchmarked against the market annually; Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve; Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable; Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs; Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth; Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more