About this role
Salary: £70,000 - 85,000 per year
Requirements: Strong experience in platform engineering, SRE or DevOps, supporting production systems at scaleHands-on cloud infrastructure experience, ideally with AWSExperience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code toolsKnowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD toolingSolid understanding of observability and incident managementStrong cloud security knowledge and understanding of operating in a regulated environmentAutomation-first approach and confidence taking ownership in an early-stage teamAt least two years production experience operating cloud infrastructure as a Platform Engineer or SREDesirable: experience building platforms for fintech, banking or payments businessesDesirable: experience supporting compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2 or ISO 27001Desirable: experience establishing monitoring and on-call processes from scratchDesirable: experience operating multi-tenant SaaS platformsMust have the right to work in the UK without requiring visa sponsorship Responsibilities: Design and operate AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as codeBuild CI/CD pipelines that support frequent, reliable deploymentsEstablish monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting, with clear service reliability targetsLead incident response, on-call practices and reviews that turn production issues into lasting improvementsDevelop resilience and disaster recovery plansImplement secrets management, network protection, and identity and access controlsSupport the technical controls required for PCI-DSS compliance and FCA requirementsAutomate routine operations and reduce manual interventionCreate reusable tooling and self-service capabilities to help developers deliver efficientlyContribute to architecture decisions and long-term cloud strategy Technologies: AWSCI/CDCloudCTODevOpsDockerIncident ManagementSupportKubernetesNetworkSecurityTerraform More:
We are developing a new digital services platform with established backing and a growing engineering team. As Senior Platform Engineer / SRE, youll report to the CTO and own the AWS infrastructure, deployment pipelines and monitoring capabilities supporting the wider team. This hands-on role offers significant influence over infrastructure, tooling and platform scalability, as we build secure, reliable cloud foundations for a new financial technology platform. The position is based in Manchester with hybrid working and offers a salary of £85,000 plus benefits, including generous annual leave in addition to bank holidays, a pension scheme, ongoing development support and opportunities to progress.
last updated 42 week of 2026