Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer

London or Edinburgh (Hybrid Working)

Perm

Up to £94,000pa

Description

* You’ll collaborate in building the best possible solutions for our Platform hosted in public cloud (AWS) environment, and engineering infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails

* You’ll also use automation to build a reliable route to live for our products, identifying ways to use new and existing technology tools to enhance the CICD pipelines

* This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with stakeholders to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.

Additionally, you’ll:

* Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products

* Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development

* Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions

* Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product

* Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues

* Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, and automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle.

We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

* Experience with Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes

* Knowledge and experience in AWS hosting and services

* Demonstratable CI/CD experience preferably using Gitlab

* Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana Loki, Tempo, Mimir and Prometheus

* A robust SRE mindset and the ability to support the infrastructure out of hours
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed