Senior Infrastructure Specialist

JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS:  Full time

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

About this opportunity

The Senior Infrastructure Specialist will hold accountability for design, architecture, implementation, maintenance, security and support of 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.

• You’ll transform business requirements and specifications into detailed designs and explore the infrastructure delivery options, developing design ideas as you go.

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

• Take the lead in all aspects of infrastructure change within the Lab/project goals throughout their lifecycle means you could be involved with infrastructure build activities or leading the resources supporting the project through the testing cycles and into the live environment.

• You’d support Group Transformation to ensure all the Service Introduction Gateway work is produced by the various CIO supply lines and ensure a smooth handover to Business as Usual.

• Finally you’ll support Disaster Recovery tests if applicable and lead resources to address infrastructure defects found over the Warranty Period

• Creates and/or presents aspects of a planning system under the guidance of senior colleagues.

• Takes responsibility for delivering a prescribed budget for own area of the organisation and/or conducts complex analyses on budget progress in other areas while working within established systems.

• Acknowledges weaknesses, recommends improvements, and implements approved changes to current compliance processes, systems, and procedures within assigned area and/or subject area.

• Writes and edits materials for a variety of target populations, tailoring the tone and content to match the needs and expectations of each audience.

• Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework; provides specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation.

• Identifies shortcomings, then suggests and implements improvements to existing business practices, while developing and delivering projects or a workstream within the organisation's change management programme with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Delivers outcomes by managing others and working within established systems.

• Delivers prescribed outcomes for area of responsibility by working within established knowledge management systems.

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.