Lead Infrastructure Engineer

End Date

Friday 30 January 2026

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

The Lead Infra Engineer will lead a team of Infra engineers within a Lab or Platform managing one or more technical products. Accountable for the associated Infrastructure strategy, security strategy and technical product roadmaps across the Lab/Platform. Includes measuring and reporting effectiveness of automation and orchestration to senior stakeholders.

Job Description

• Summary

  Our Cloud Engineering team is growing  We're looking for a talented DevOps Engineer to join our team and build scalable systems that will shape the future of our cloud infrastructure for our bank.

  What you'll be doing

• Work across multiple functional teams to assess, build and maintain a highly fault-tolerant, elastic infrastructure of tools and automation on cloud.
• Creating deployments, services, and other resources on Kubernetes clusters.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and automate stable/scalable services for the internal engineering team and end users.
• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and any other use cases.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve system level scale, performance, and automation problems.
• Provide multi-tier levels of support to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Checking in code to Github repositories and performing code reviews for your fellow team members.
• You will be responsible for the analysis, design, development, deployment and hand-over to the end users of the solutions developed within the team
• Ensuring these solutions meet our Control and Security requirements and help improve the stability of our platform, yet allowing higher volume of changes and activity
• Ensuring we increase the productivity of our wider engineering team
• Adopting and promoting best practices within the larger team and organization

• What you should have:

• Bachelor's degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• 20 years' experience in a DevOps Engineer role. Mix of consumer technology and SaaS technology is ideal.
• Working with and maintaining production experience with Kubernetes deployments and services.
• Kubernetes (k8s) and Docker production experience
• Built out continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Able to write Bash and/or Python scripts.
• Ability to own and be responsible for the projects you will be working on.
• Able to write Infrastructure as a code (IaC)
• Able to curate product lifecycle around cloud core services

• We'll be excited if you have:

• Experience working with GCP/Azure cloud infrastructure and their various services.
• Fluent in Terraform and writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience working with Service Mesh (Istio/Anthos)
• Experience working with OpenVPN / Remote Access, Squid / Egress Proxy, IP Management, SMTP / Mail gateway, SMEE / Webhook Delivery.
• Experience and thorough understanding of the Linux operating systems.
• Experience with high-traffic monitoring systems. Implementing logging (Grafana/Prometheus), telemetry (New Relic), and tracing is ideal.
• Excellent eye for security and creating bulletproof secure systems.
• Excellent and effective verbal, written, interpersonal communication skills.
• Comfortable with fast-paced change: ability to demonstrate comfort with ambiguity, adapt quickly and be effective in new situations in a highly dynamic setting.
• Data-driven but also imaginative and intuitive in coming up with ideas and solutions.
• Proven ability to balance multiple priorities in a collaborative team environment.

• What you'd get in return:

  Offering you both opportunity and profile - we'll provide you with a diverse, energising and lively environment that focuses on equal opportunity and real career progression.

  We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a genuine difference to millions throughout your career with us.

  So, if you have a desire to work in a challenging Engineering role in a dynamic environment with quality at the heart of thinking, whilst gaining skills and experience within a friendly and motivated team then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you

  We're flexible on location across any CIO hub location. As a team we have all embraced working from home. We fully support the new developing workstyles, taking a flexible approach to 'future of work'.

  We know that a 9-5 doesn't work for everyone so can be flexible to a variety of working patterns. Whilst we can't accommodate every option, we're happy to consider any request.

  We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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