Lead, Platform Engineer

Our Company
At Quantum we connect global brands with high-intent consumers. We turn intent into action and complexity into clarity.

Our Mission is clear to help smarter faster buying decisions. Our vision to be the worlds most used digital comparison service delivering value and simplicity to millions.

We drive growth through data-driven affiliate marketing built for performance from day one. Every campaign is measurable optimised in real time and designed to scale.

With in-house tech full-stack analytics and a compliance-first mindset we give our partners an edge. We drive confident decisions and growth in regulated and high-growth sectors. Weve helped ambitious brands grow faster smarter and globally.

The Role

Were hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to own our Google Cloud platform and the route our engineers take to production. Youll spend most of your time designing and building and youll manage one infrastructure engineer from day one.

As the business grows we expect the platform team to grow with it and wed like you to lead that. Youll report to the Director of Engineering.

What youll work on

• Completing the rollout of the next version of our platform while the current one keeps serving live traffic.

• Moving acquired sites which currently deploy in their own ways onto a common build and release path.

• Strengthening edge protection and resilience so the platform absorbs traffic spikes and hostile traffic.

• Giving every team clear visibility of whats deployed when and how often.

• Defining the route from prototype to production including the checks a service needs before it goes live.

What youll be responsible for

• Design build and run scalable secure infrastructure on GCP defined in Terraform.

• Own networking and IAM design including VPCs ingress through Traefik and encryption of data at rest and in transit.

• Make and record architecture decisions for the platform and keep them visible to the wider team.

• Work with the software engineering team to ensure were delivering the right infrastructure at the right time.

• Work with our data engineers on the infrastructure behind BigQuery and our data pipelines.

• Own our CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and make deployments quick and repeatable.

• Build self-service tooling so product engineers can ship and run their own services with confidence.

• Set up monitoring logging and alerting using Cloud Monitoring Cloud Logging Prometheus and Grafana.

• Lead root cause analysis after incidents and see the fixes through.

• Build security into the delivery process early and track and address vulnerabilities across the estate.

• Keep the platform in line with our regulatory obligations and internal policies.

• Line manage and develop our infrastructure engineer with regular one-to-ones and a clear growth plan.

• Set platform standards and help the iGaming and Rewards tech leads adopt them.

• Shape the platform roadmap with the Director of Engineering and plan how the team grows.

• Hire into the platform team as it expands.

About you

• Significant experience as a platform cloud or infrastructure engineer including time as the senior or lead engineer on a team.

• Deep hands-on experience with GCP including GKE Compute Engine Cloud Functions Cloud Storage and BigQuery.

• Strong Terraform skills and experience running infrastructure as code in production.

• Experience building and running CI/CD pipelines ideally in GitHub Actions.

• Solid Docker and Kubernetes experience including cluster networking and ingress.

• Scripting and programming ability in Python Go or Bash.

• Experience with observability tooling and with leading incident response.

• Experience mentoring engineers and a real interest in line management.

• Clear written and spoken English and comfort explaining technical trade-offs to people outside engineering.

Nice to have

• TypeScript or JavaScript experience.

• ArgoCD or other GitOps tooling.

• Experience in a regulated industry such as iGaming fintech or health.

• Experience consolidating infrastructure after an acquisition or major migration.

• Experience building or growing a platform team.

What Youll Get

• Private Health Care (Bupa)

• Hybrid Working (3 days in office)

• Travel Insurance

• Competitive Base Salary

• Company Bonus Scheme

• Paid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)

• Market-Leading Training Programme

• Recognition & Reward Scheme

• Annual Company Conference

• Regular Happy Hours & Team Lunches

• Free Coffee Drinks & Snacks

Whats the next step

Our hiring process ensures were recruiting the right people for the role. We ensure that people are as suitable for us as we are for them.

If you like the sound of what were all about at Quantum and want to join a team where you can make an impact please apply or contact us at

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