Platform Engineer / SRE

The Role

As our 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, Azure, or GCP) 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

Benefits

• 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