Lead Platform Engineer - Sweden

The role

You will set the technical foundation for Allica Bank Sweden's cloud self-service platform. You will adapt the UK tech stack for Sweden and build reusable core infrastructure. You will also mentor platform engineers and manage reliability and costs.

What you will do

• Own Allica Sweden's instance of the Allica platform
• Adapt the UK stack for Sweden including landing zones, subscriptions, network topology, container runtime and resilience patterns
• Build reusable core Terraform modules, deployment templates and platform services
• Deliver all infrastructure through Terraform and secure CI/CD
• Embed security, governance and compliance into the platform
• Own reliability and run cost
• Lead the response to complex incidents
• Lead and mentor platform engineers

Required qualifications

• Strong track record of architecting and running production cloud environments at scale
• Extensive cloud experience
• Azure as primary cloud
• GCP as secondary cloud
• Fluency in landing zone and subscription design, private networking, containerized compute, API management and resilience patterns
• Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform, identity and observability at scale
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Fluent English
• Pragmatic mindset

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated industries
• Kubernetes and serverless
• Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• FinOps and operational resilience

Benefits

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
• Options for flexible working
• Regular social activities
• Pension contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private health cover
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

About the company

Allica is a UK fintech firm that backs established SMEs. The company is expanding into Sweden by bringing its existing technology model to the new market.