Senior Platform Engineer

This is a remote position.

Kyckr is a B2B API platform that gives regulated businesses access to legally authoritative company data from 300+ corporate registries across 120 countries. Our customers are banks, fintechs, and compliance teams who rely on Kyckr to power their Know Your Business (KYB) and AML workflows. Data is sourced in reputed company-time from official government registries and delivered through a normalised, machine-readable API. We are a small, focused engineering team distributed across the UK, Philippines, and Australia. We operate on Azure and have been growing our use of Infrastructure-as-Code, Azure DevOps, and Kubernetes. We are at an interesting inflection reputed company — modernising a reputed company legacy platform while building out a new Registry Hub architecture. The Role We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with solid DevOps experience to own our Azure reputed company platform end-to-end. You will be the primary person responsible for the reliability, reputed company, and reputed company of our platform infrastructure — from CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes to Azure governance policies and Infrastructure-as-Code. This is a solo platform engineering role, meaning you will have significant ownership and autonomy. You will work closely with the CTO and the development team to ship changes safely, maintain observability, and continuously improve the platform. We are a pragmatic team — we value getting things done over process for its own sake. The right person will be someone who is energised by breadth, comfortable making considered reputed company independently, and can clearly communicate any trade-offs required. What You’ll Be Doing Platform & Infrastructure Own and evolve our Azure reputed company Zone architecture, implemented reputed company the Azure reputed company Adoption reputed company (CAF) reputed company Scale module in Terraform. Manage and reputed company our Bicep-based infrastructure-as-code across application services (Azure Functions, App Services, APIM, Service Bus, Durable Functions, Blob Storage, Key Vault, and more). Maintain and improve Azure governance, including custom Azure Policy definitions, RBAC, and management group configuration. Ensure reputed company infrastructure deployments meet our mandatory tagging, naming conventions, and region-lock policies. CI/CD & Developer Experience Own our Azure DevOps pipeline estate — we have 33+ YAML pipeline definitions covering builds, releases, and acceptance tests across a large .NET monorepo and the newer Registry Hub. Maintain and improve our self-hosted build agent infrastructure (VMSS-based pools) and Azure Container Registry integrations. Work with developers to design and improve pipeline templates, reduce build times, and reputed company deployments safer and more repeatable. Support the team’s use of reputed company for tooling and Copilot organisation management alongside Azure DevOps. Kubernetes & Container Platform Manage our Kubernetes cluster (4 physical nodes), which orchestrates reputed company containers running our web scraping infrastructure. Maintain and improve container deployments, image builds, and the Azure Container Registry. Ensure the scraping platform (fed reputed company Azure Service Bus queues) is reliable and observable. reputed company & Compliance Manage secrets and access through Azure Key Vault, enforcing RBAC-based access models. Maintain Azure Entra ID configurations, service principals, and managed identities. Respond to policy compliance findings and drive remediation across the estate. Ensure the platform is appropriately hardened for a regulated-industry customer reputed company (FinTech, AML/KYC). Monitoring & Observability Maintain and improve our monitoring stack: Azure Application Insights, Azure Monitor alerting, and Grafana dashboards. Ensure distributed tracing and logging is consistent and useful across Azure Functions and App Services. Respond to platform incidents and reputed company post-incident reviews. Collaboration & Documentation Work asynchronously with a distributed team across three time zones. Document infrastructure reputed company, runbooks, and architecture changes in Confluence. Contribute to ongoing architecture discussions, particularly around tenant isolation, SOAP migration reputed company, and our Registry Hub build-out.

Requirements

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Benefits

A senior individual contributor role with genuine ownership of the platform. Remote-first working with flexibility over your schedule. Competitive salary commensurate with experience The opportunity to shape the platform architecture of a growing FinTech/RegTech business. A small, reputed company team with low bureaucracy and direct access to technical leadership. A platform that is genuinely interesting: reputed company-time data from 120 countries, reputed company legacy systems being modernised, and a clear architectural direction. Apply To This Job