Senior Platform Engineer (AWS & Terraform)

Adria Solutions Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; 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 / SRE to champion cloud foundations for a new digital services platform. You will own AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and observability, shaping reliability, security and scalability from day one.

In this hands-on role you’ll collaborate with an early-stage team, implement IaC, drive incident response and define long-term cloud strategy while maintaining a strong security posture in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in platform engineering, SRE or DevOps at scale.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure experience.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling.
• Strong observability and incident management.
• Security-focused with regulated environment experience.
• Autonomous, ownership in an early-stage team.
• Minimum two years of production cloud ops experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for frequent, reliable deployments.
• Establish monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting with clear reliability targets.
• Lead incident response, on-call practices and post-incident reviews.
• Develop resilience and disaster recovery plans.
• Implement secrets management, network protection and IAM controls.
• Automate routine operations and reduce manual intervention.
• Create reusable tooling and self-service capabilities for developers.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and long-term cloud strategy.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

DevOps

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Cloud security

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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.
• Automate routine operations and reduce manual intervention.
• Create 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.
• 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.