Senior Platform Engineer - AWS & Terraform

Adria Solutions Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Hybrid work in Manchester

Job summary

Adria Solutions Ltd is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the AWS infrastructure, deployment pipelines and monitoring capabilities for a new digital services platform. This hands‑on role shapes a cloud foundation, focusing on automation, security and production reliability within a fast‑growing fintech‑adjacent environment.

The role involves building and operating scalable cloud foundations, setting reliability targets, and driving PCI‑DSS and FCA compliant controls while enabling the

Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, ideally AWS.
• Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling.
• Strong observability and incident management understanding.
• Automation‑first approach and ownership in an early‑stage team.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
• Build CI/CD pipelines that support frequent, reliable deployments.
• Establish monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting, with clear service reliability targets.
• Lead incident response, on‑call practices and reviews that turn production issues into lasting improvements.
• Develop resilience and disaster recovery plans.
• Implement secrets management, network protection and identity and access controls.
• Support the technical controls required for PCI‑DSS compliance and FCA requirements.
• Automate routine operations and reduce manual intervention, create reusable tooling and self‑service capabilities for developers.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and the long‑term cloud strategy.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

DevOps

Automation

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer AWS & Terraform

Manchester Hybrid £85,000 + benefits

Adria Solutions is recruiting a Senior Platform Engineer / SRE for a business developing a new digital services platform.

With established backing and its engineering team taking shape, the business needs an experienced engineer to build its cloud foundations and establish secure, reliable operations. You ll have significant influence over infrastructure, tooling and how the platform scales.

The role

Reporting to the CTO, you ll own the AWS infrastructure, deployment pipelines and monitoring capabilities that support the wider engineering team.

This is a hands‑on opportunity to shape a platform from the ground up, combining cloud engineering, automation, security and production reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Design and operate AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
• Build CI/CD pipelines that support frequent, reliable deployments.
• Establish monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting, with clear service reliability targets.
• Lead incident response, on‑call practices and reviews that turn production issues into lasting improvements.
• Develop resilience and disaster recovery plans.
• Implement secrets management, network protection and identity and access controls.
• Support the technical controls required for PCI‑DSS compliance and FCA requirements.
• Automate routine operations and reduce manual intervention.reate reusable tooling and self‑service capabilities that help developers deliver efficiently.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and the long‑term cloud strategy.

What we re looking for

• Strong experience in platform engineering, SRE or DevOps, supporting production systems at scale.
• Hands‑on cloud infrastructure experience, ideally with AWS.
• Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling.
• A solid understanding of observability and incident management.
• Strong cloud security knowledge and an understanding of operating within a regulated environment.
• An automation‑first approach and confidence taking ownership in an early‑stage team.
• At least two years production experience operating cloud infrastructure as a Platform Engineer or SRE.

Desirable experience

• Building platforms for fintech, banking or payments businesses.
• Supporting compliance frameworks such as PCI‑DSS, SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
• Establishing monitoring and on‑call processes from scratch.
• Operating multi‑tenant SaaS platforms.

The package

• Generous annual leave allowance with bank holidays in addition
• a pension scheme
• hybrid working in Manchester

You ll also receive support for ongoing development, opportunities to progress and significant ownership of the infrastructure supporting a new financial technology platform.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring visa sponsorship.