Senior Infrastructure Specialist

JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist

SALARY: £70,929 - £76,000

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

The Senior Infrastructure Specialist is responsible for crafting, implementing, maintaining, securing, and supporting infrastructure resources! They will work without the need for supervision and own and direct the tasks of more junior Infra Specialists and Infra Engineers! They will focus on Platform or Lab level objectives and may manage a sub-set of their team’s technical products.

Building in infrastructure specific requirements for delivery, for example Non-functional Requirements (NFR), infrastructure detail, volumetric, and test environments you’ll bring the best solution to life. 

Below are core responsibilities that this role will undertake:

• Delivers a set budget for their area or analyses budget progress in other areas using established systems.

• Identifies and improves compliance processes, systems, and procedures within their unit or discipline.

• Writes and edits content tailored to different audiences.

• Invests in personal development and trains others within the organisation’s development framework.

• Improves business practices and leads projects or workstreams with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Manages others to deliver outcomes within established systems.

• Achieves results by working within existing knowledge management systems.

• Detects emerging issues, identifies causes, stakeholders, and barriers.

• Designs and adapts specialised products or services to meet customer needs using available approaches.

• Investigates incidents and advises senior colleagues while coordinating compliance efforts across functions.

• Develops or delivers parts of a strategic planning system with support from senior colleagues.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

We’d be looking for varying levels of experience across the following areas:

• Exposure to multiple infrastructure technologies (Server, Storage, Network) in a Design and/or implementation role.

• Experience of Public Cloud migration would be desirable.

• Experience of end-to-end project delivery.

• Systems Thinking or exposure to the methodology and working practices would set your application apart.

• Whilst skills, knowledge and prior experience are meaningful to us we want people who are highly motivated, and enthusiastic with an inquisitive and curious approach to work.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experienced in the design/architecture of infrastructure solutions in a large-scale enterprise environment, e.g. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Middleware, Storage, Network and Databases.

• Skilled at producing quality concise design documentation, with an emphasis on decisions and diagrams necessary to mobilise delivery across private and public cloud.

• Hands-On experience of end-to-end project delivery, working predominantly with Agile delivery models including modern software development and deployment practices

• Understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working understanding of cloud methodologies

• Senior stakeholder manager and experience managing 3rd party partners.

• Previous Banking/Finance industry experience would be very useful.

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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.