DevOps Cloud Platform Engineer

Join us as a DevOps Cloud Platform Engineer

Join our Chief Digital Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and one-bank collaboration to push the boundaries of what’s possible for our customers

The wellbeing and growth of our people is fundamental to our shared success, which is why we’re passionate about cultivating an environment that fosters inclusion and champions potential

Our journey will be challenging and complex, but truly transformative – so if you’re ready to stretch your capability, gain unique experience and shape the future banking experience for generations to come, this is your opportunity

You’ll work from home most of the time, but you’ll also spend at least one day a week working from our London office

What you’ll do

You’re joining a team that’s passionate about the customer vision and delivering a seamless onboarding experience for our customers. Aligned to our ‘Start and Manage my banking relationship’ customer goals, you’ll be working with your colleagues to deliver the technology strategic roadmap, while ensuring the right balance between our business goals and building future technology, at the right cost.

As a DevOps Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll be leading the design and implementation of AWS based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerised applications and observability solutions. You’ll drive the adoption of best practices for automation, scalability, and reliability while ensuring the platform is secure, highly available, and cost efficient.

You’ll also be:

Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and Terraform

Architecting and optimising containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes

Defining and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and ELK Stack

Leading the design and management of AWS networking

Advising teams across platform and within the centre of excellence on which DevOps capability uplifts would be best suited to their needs and abilities

Providing feedback that builds on policies, standards, practices and associated DevOps tooling

Making sure decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of portfolio management support roles paired with knowledge of portfolio types. You’ll have extensive hands-on experience with AWS, including EKS, ECS, Fargate, VPC, networking, and security best practices. We’re looking for expertise in CI/CD automation using GitLab and Terraform.

You’ll also demonstrate:

Deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes, with experience designing scalable, resilient, and automated containerised workloads, including blue/green deployment strategies

Strong proficiency in monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, AWS CloudWatch, and Datadog

Proven experience deploying and managing high-availability, business-critical systems with a focus on performance, scalability, and security

Expertise in cloud networking concepts, including load balancing, VPC design, subnets, and security controls

Experience of deploying business critical systems to production

Knowledge and experience of portfolio management theories, models and practices within an Agile or DevOps environment