Chloe Band 3+

Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Platform Engineering is the centralised team that builds, provisions and runs the infrastructure every other engineering team at Allica depends on. Whether a product serves a business banking customer or a colleague inside the bank, it lands on a platform this team designed. The team owns both halves of that, buildi...

The job is to make the right thing the easy thing, through paved roads, self-service provisioning, sensible defaults, and controls encoded in the platform rather than bolted on afterwards. Every control the platform enforces is one a product team does not have to think about, and one we can evidence on demand. Role ...

Own the architecture of Allica’s Cloud platform: landing zones, subscriptions and network topology, container runtime, and the integration and resilience patterns that sit on top. Design again Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework as working disciplines. 
Build the reusable core: Terraform modules, deployment templates and platform services that let a team stand up production-grade infrastructure without reinventing the security, networking and observability plumbing each time.
Infrastructure as Code and Automation 
Deliver and manage all infrastructure through Terraform and secure CI/CD, so that every change is automated, repeatable, version-controlled, tested, and reversible. Drive manual change and configuration drift towards zero. 
Set and evolve engineering standards for the function: code quality, peer review, policy as code and, release management.
Security, Governance, and Compliance 
Embed security, governance, and compliance throughout the platform lifecycle, implementing effective policies, access controls, encryption, vulnerability management, monitoring, and configuration standards. 
Collaborate with Allica’s Security, Engineering, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure platforms meet organisational, regulatory, and control requirements, supported by clear documentation and auditable evidence. 
Identify and manage architectural risks, security vulnerabilities, control gaps, and technical debt, ensuring remediation actions are prioritised, tracked, and completed.
Platform Operations and Service Ownership 
Own availability, reliability, and run cost for the platform, backed by service objectives, monitoring you can operate from, and tested recovery arrangements.
Lead the response to complex incidents, own the root-cause analysis, drive out repeat causes rather than repeat fixes. 
Use service data, operational experience, and FinOps practices to continuously improve platform automation, resilience, engineering standards, cost visibility, forecasting, and resource optimisation.
Team Leadership 
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of platform engineers while remaining personally hands-on in architecture, design reviews, and the hardest technical problems. 
Set the technical bar and raise it, through coaching, design review and the example of your own work.
Personal Attributes & Experience 
A strong track record architecting, and running production Azure environments at scale.
Fluent in landing zone and subscription design, private networking, containerised compute, API management and resilience patterns across zones and regions.
Extensive hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure at scale, infrastructure as code, containerised runtimes, identity and observability. 
Has carried production accountability for systems that matter. Comfortable in handling incidents. 
Treats developer experience as a product.
Talks to engineering teams, watches how they actually work and designs for adoption rather than mandate. 
Treats regulatory and security requirements as engineering constraints to design around, not obstacles to route past.
Prior regulated or high-assurance experience helps but is not a prerequisite. 
Gets adoption by building things engineers want to use and by making a clear case, not by escalation. 
Prefers the boring, well-understood solution unless the problem genuinely demands otherwise. Willing to remove things.
Desirable Experience 
Architecture or engineering experience with Google Cloud Platform. 
Experience working in complex, regulated, or security-sensitive environments.
Knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, serverless services, and cloud-native application patterns. 
Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable CI/CD technologies.  Familiarity with FinOps, operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and cloud-control frameworks.  Relevant Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Terraform, security, or architecture certifications.
At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.
Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:
Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
Options for flexible working
Regular social activities
Pension contributions
Discretionary bonus scheme
Private health cover
Life assurance
Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you!
We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.