Description
Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking. We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our team, focusing on building and supporting infrastructure across physical data centres and cloud estates, including AWS and GCP.
As an Infrastructure Engineer at Starling, you'll be building and supporting infrastructure that spans across physical data centres and also our cloud estates. Your focus will be on supporting our internal operations and interfacing with our software engineering teams to deliver the infrastructure that drives our business, all while building security in.
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