Senior Platform Engineer / SRE

Murmuration; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working from Manchester office

Company pension scheme

30 days holiday per year + Bank Hols

Early, hands-on role building a new平台

Job summary

Murmuration is building the core platform for credit unions. We seek a Senior Platform Engineer / SRE to design, implement, and run cloud infrastructure (AWS) with IaC, maintain CI/CD, and own platform reliability from day one.

Join an early engineering team reporting to the CTO, shaping security, scalability, and governance in a regulated financial context while enabling rapid, safe deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on cloud and IaC experience (Terraform).
• Experience with containers, orchestration, and CI/CD tooling.
• Security and compliance knowledge in regulated environments (PCI-DSS, FCA/SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate our cloud infrastructure (AWS) using IaC.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe, frequent deployments.
• Own observability with metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting; report on SLOs/SLAs.
• Lead production reliability: incident response, on-call, post-incident reviews, DR planning.
• Build security into the platform: secrets management, network security, IAM, PCI-DSS/FCA controls.
• Automate manual operations and reduce toil.
• Make the platform easy for engineers with good defaults and self-service tooling.
• Help set cloud and reliability strategy as an early engineer.

Skills

Platform Engineer

SRE

DevOps

IaC

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud security

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

As our Senior Platform Engineer / SRE, you'll build and run the cloud infrastructure that the rest of Murmuration is built on. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you'll set up our infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, and own the reliability and security of a platform that credit unions rely on to serve their members.

About Murmuration

Murmuration is a new technology company building the core platform that credit unions run on. We provide the software, payments, and data infrastructure that lets a credit union offer its members modern digital banking without having to build or run the technology itself.

Credit unions are member-owned and rooted in their communities, but many still operate on systems that are decades old, which limits what they can offer their members. We're building the alternative.

We're a new company, putting our platform and our first engineering team in place now, with the backing of an established group. For people who join early, that means a real say in the product, the architecture, and how the company works.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build, and operate our cloud infrastructure (AWS) using infrastructure-as-code
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that let engineers ship safely and often
• Own observability across metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting, and define and report on SLOs and SLAs
• Lead on production reliability: incident response, on-call, post-incident reviews, and resilience and disaster-recovery planning
• Build security into the platform, covering secrets management, network security, identity and access, and the controls needed for PCI-DSS and FCA
• Automate what should be automated, and cut down manual operations
• Make the platform easy for other engineers to build on, with good defaults and self-service tooling
• Help set the cloud and reliability approach as one of the first engineers in the team

What you'll bring to Murmuration

• Strong experience as a Platform Engineer, SRE, or DevOps Engineer running production systems at scale
• Strong hands-on experience with a major cloud provider and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD tooling
• A solid grasp of observability tooling and incident management
• A good understanding of cloud security and how to operate in a regulated environment
• An automation-first approach, and comfort owning reliability at an early-stage company

Standout candidates will also...

• Experience building cloud platforms in fintech, banking, or payments, where uptime and security are critical
• Experience with compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001) in a platform context
• Experience setting up observability and on-call where none existed before
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Salary of £70,000 – £85,000 depending on experience
• 30 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working from our Manchester office
• Company pension scheme
• An early, hands-on role building a new platform and team
• Structured career path with support for ongoing learning and development