Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Who We Are:

Moneycorp powers global payments for corporates, institutions and high net worth individuals, combining worldwide reach with local expertise. With over 45 years of market experience, two banking licences and offices in 11 countries, our technology delivers 24/7 accessibility, while our people deliver award-winning service. In 2024, we supported $1tn+ of payment volume, reaching 190 countries in 130 currencies. Our 32k+ corporate clients benefit from our regulatory resilience with 63+ permissions globally, access to major payment rails, and our proprietary technology.

Moneycorp is a place where energy, commitment, and collaboration are core to our values of shared success. We’re restless in our drive to surpass the expectations of our customers and unlock opportunities to support them at every stage of their journey. The foundation of our success is our people, and nurturing a culture of belonging for all our colleagues is central to our journey as a global business.

Role Purpose:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our multifunctional Cloud Platform Team as a senior individual contributor responsible for executing complex technical delivery and providing healthy challenge to architectural and delivery approaches.

As Senior Platform Engineer, you are the "show me the code" voice - the experienced engineer who validates feasibility through execution, challenges designs with implementation reality, and delivers platform capabilities with excellence. You work alongside Cloud Architects and Technical Leads as a peer contributor, bringing deep hands-on expertise and delivery experience that grounds decision-making in practical reality.

This is a senior IC role, not a leadership position - you lead through expertise, execution quality, and constructive challenge. You own complex technical problems, mentor through pairing, and set the standard for what great delivery looks like.

Role Responsibilities:

Hands-On Technical Delivery

• Own and deliver the most complex, risky, or ambiguous technical challenges
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform): networking, security, governance, compute, PaaS - modules, stacks, policies
• Build CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, self-service tooling, and observability infrastructure
• Write comprehensive tests (unit, integration, validation) and documentation (runbooks, diagrams, implementation notes)
• Troubleshoot complex issues spanning networking, identity, security, and infrastructure layers
• Optimize implementations for performance, cost, security, and maintainability - secure-by-design in every delivery
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for critical platform issues

Healthy Challenge & Technical Validation

• Challenge architectural designs with implementation reality: "will this actually work?"
• Provide constructive pushback on approaches that ignore delivery constraints or compromise quality
• Validate technical feasibility during refinement - flag hidden complexity, dependencies, risks
• Push back on unrealistic timelines with data and experience - ground planning in delivery reality
• Propose alternative approaches based on hands-on experience: "I've tried that and here's what happened"
• Question standards and patterns to ensure they serve real needs - challenge both over-engineering and under-engineering
• Advocate for technical excellence while remaining pragmatic about business constraints

Collaborative Design & Refinement

• Participate in design sessions - contribute implementation insights to architectural discussions
• Review ADRs and design patterns for implement-ability - validate designs can be decomposed into stories
• Participate in refinement - help decompose features into implementable stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Validate story sizing, complexity estimates, and technical feasibility before "Ready" state
• Identify technical prerequisites, dependencies, missing context, or unclear requirements
• Conduct thorough code reviews: Terraform modules, Azure Policy definitions, pipeline configurations
• Provide mentorship through constructive review feedback - balance quality with pragmatic delivery

Knowledge Sharing & Mentorship

• Pair program with engineers - transfer knowledge hands-on during story implementation
• Demonstrate best practices through doing, not just telling - build confidence through guided problem-solving
• Share expertise through workshops, demos, and technical deep-dives
• Document complex implementations and troubleshooting approaches - contribute to knowledge base and playbooks

What We’re Looking For:

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years hands-on infrastructure engineering in cloud environments
• Expert-level Terraform at enterprise scale - 50+ production modules/stacks
• Deep Azure experience across networking, security, governance, compute, PaaS services
• Proven delivery of complex infrastructure …