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 DevOps Pipelines.

• Implement and maintain Azure App Services including Function Apps and Logic Apps for automation and integration.

• Introduce self-service templates and tooling to empower development teams to deploy securely and independently.

• Apply Azure Well-Architected Framework principles to ensure solutions meet standards of reliability, performance, cost optimization, and security.

• Collaborate with Security, Engineering teams to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, configuration, and automation processes.

Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services, infrastructure, networking, Gen- AI, AI adoption.

• Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls in cloud environments, including Azure deployments and centralized management via Panorama

• Proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.

• Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub for CI/CD, including branching and version control strategies.

• Skilled in managing Windows and Linux systems in cloud environments.

• Experience with multi-region architectures, resiliency design, and disaster recovery planning.

• Knowledge of Azure App Services, Container Apps, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Grid.

• Understanding of Azure networking, Front Door, Firewall, and APIM.

• Experience in networking. Including Routing, performance optimization, traffic management and network security

• Experience working in regulated environments such as fintech or financial services, with strong appreciation for security, auditability, and compliance.

• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving abilities with a collaborative mindset. Capabilities