# Staff Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) - Engine by Starling

**Company**: Engine by Starling
**Location**: Southampton
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.

We are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on , across multiple regions and cloud providers globally.

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will:

- Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP

- Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness

- Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation

- Build systems with security by design as a core foundation

- Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS

- Design and operate key and secret management on GCP , Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager , including support for cryptographic key ceremonies

- Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance

- Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team

- Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry

- Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine , our approach, tooling, automation and architecture

- Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for

Requirements:

- Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience

- Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise’s resource hierarchy

- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls

- Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code

- Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure

- Experience with key and secret management on GCP , Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager , including cryptographic key ceremonies

- Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect

- Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD

- Experience with observability tooling , Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry

- Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity

- Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go

- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines

- An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts

- Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models

Benefits:

- 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it 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

- Incentives refer a friend scheme

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

## Skills

### Required
- GCP
- Google Cloud Platform
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Cloud KMS
- Cloud External Key Manager
- Secret Manager
- Python
- Go
- CI/CD
- RESTful API
- Event-driven concepts

### Nice to have
- Zero Trust security
- AWS
- bash
- Golang
- Java
- Python development
- database monitoring
- networking and routing concepts
- Claude Skills

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