Cloud Engineer

JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £82,000

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity…

Exciting opportunity for a Cloud Engineer to join the Payments Services Platform in our International & CHAPS Lab, providing payment options for all of our customers. Specifically, to support our new industry-leading International Payments Platform (IPP). Our strategic roadmap includes a Payments Industry product called Global Payments Plus (GPP).

As the Cloud Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You’ll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

About us…

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you’ll do…

• This is a key role in the team so you’ll have the opportunity work with all our feature teams to establish the cloud patterns and principles of the team in line with the Group’s methodologies

• You’ll focus on the cloud elements of the solutions, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly while continuously improving and developing our processes

• You’ll be responsible for the build & support for shared hosting services such as Kubernetes, Ingress/Egress, Networking patterns, Certificates & data resources

• You’ll focus on the cloud engineering elements of the software engineering role, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly in the cloud while continuously improving and developing our processes

• You’ll help us to learn and implement the best use of DevOps tools & cloud resources, like Jenkins, Kubernetes, Harness and help us maintain our hosting platform

• Creating and improving routes to live with automation including blue/green & canary strategies

• Configure and improve observability controls

• Proving scalability/resilience and security controls

What you’ll need…

• To display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence

• Can independently design, implement, manage and optimise cloud deployments, proficient in using orchestrations tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Harness

• DevOps, Cloud or Software engineering background with a solid understanding of Cloud delivery

• Strong Cloud Engineering and DevOps exposure preferably GCP

• Proven experience and understanding of cloud native solutions

• Proven experience configuring & running production workloads in Kubernetes

• CI/CD & IaC tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Sonar, Nexus, Git, Spinnaker, Harness

• Strong understanding & experience of Observability, SRE, DevSecOps & FinOps

• Good understanding of cloud networking & connectivity patterns

• Good understanding of key data tooling such as Kafka, BigTable, DataProc, BigQuery etc..

It would be great if you also had…

• Network protocols & security

• Chaos Testing

• Contract Testing

• APIGEE

• Java Spring Boot

• Kafka

• Microservices

About working for us…

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes…

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!