# Infrastructure Engineer

**Company**: Starling
**Location**: Cardiff, Wales
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking!

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Starling, you'll be building and supporting infrastructure that spans across physical data centres and also our cloud estates.

## Responsibilities

- Working with functional delivery teams to translate business requirements into technical implementations

- Making changes to critical physical infrastructure that supports the bank

- Designing and building patterns and frameworks to be used by other engineering teams

- Introducing automation where appropriate to stop unnecessary toil

- Taking ownership of projects and ensuring timely delivery

- Diagnosing system and network failures under pressure

- Familiarity with distributed systems and immutable infrastructure

- Keeping abreast of new technologies and changes in the industry

- Working with other teams, like our Security team, Developer Experience teams

## Requirements

- Strong background in data centre network topologies, BGP routing, and VRF configuration for secure traffic isolation.

- Experience of working with firewalls

- Working knowledge of Linux administration

- Experience or awareness Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools

- System architecture and design

- Experience with modern development practices and using Python/Golang or scripting languages like bash

- Experience in building and maintaining containers

## Desirable Skills

- Knowledge of core cloud services

- Experience running services in Kubernetes

- Track record of maintaining compliant environments e.g. PCI-DSS

- Experience of developing clean and highly maintainable code: creating and improving existing infrastructure services and tooling

- primarily in Golang

## Benefits

- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)

- An extra day's holiday for your birthday

- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off

- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year

- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme

- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection

- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care.

- Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton

- Generous family-friendly policies

- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks

## Skills

### Required
- data centre network topologies
- BGP routing
- VRF configuration
- firewalls
- Linux administration
- Infrastructure as Code
- system architecture
- Python
- Golang
- bash
- containers

### Nice to have
- core cloud services
- Kubernetes
- PCI-DSS

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