Senior Platform Engineer

About Allica Bank Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech. 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. At Allica, we’re driving digital transformation in business banking. Our technology team underpins every part of the bank — from innovative product delivery to building secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure. We focus on operational excellence, customer-centric engineering, and automation to deliver a best-in-class banking experience. Our culture values collaboration, integrity, and simplicity in everything we do. Purpose of Role: We’re seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to strengthen our cloud platform capabilities as Allica continues to scale. The role involves designing, automating, and maintaining Azure-based platform services across Windows and Linux environments, supporting multi-region deployments, and embedding self-service capabilities for development teams. You’ll leverage Azure DevOps Pipelines, Terraform, and Azure native services to enable Infrastructure as Code (IaC), guided by the Azure Well-Architected Framework to ensure security, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Principal Accountabilities: Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across multiple regions in Microsoft Azure. Build and manage Azure Container Apps for running microservices and lightweight containerized workloads. Configure and optimise Azure networking components — VNETs, NSGs, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door. Implement and maintain Azure Firewall, API Management (APIM), Databases, Service Bus, and Event Grid. Drive infrastructure automation and governance through Terraform and Azure De