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