Infrastructure Engineer (LON)

Infrastructure Engineers - London (or Edinburgh)

We are working in collaboration to source Infrastructure Engineers (several posts) for a Financial Services client who has offices in London and Edinburgh. As for work format, it's 6 days per month contractually, but it will be 1 day a week, which will always be a Thursday. There is an on-call element to this, once every 6-8 weeks, and they will be paid. Salaries vary according to location.

This is a pivotal role in the organisation that will involve building solutions for their Platform hosted in a public cloud (AWS) environment. You will collaborate with stakeholders to develop product roadmaps, provide operational support for pattern or product-related issues and work with key vendors. This role covers the platform for Mortgages, Loans, CC, Overdrafts and new next-gen work

Your solutions will use automation to build reliable solutions, and comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements

Additionally, you’ll:

• Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
• Provide operational support for pattern or product-related issues
• Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

The skills you'll need

• To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, and automation scripting, such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain.
• Min 5 years realistically. But they must be able to talk through failures and know what to do if failures occur.
• What is your experience? Is it architecture, design, build, or deployment? It will all be tested
• You can come from any sector and any size company, all comes down to their personal involvement in projects.
• Must have good comms

Key requirements are:

• AWS: S3, WAF, EC2, Load Balancing, CloudFront (any mix of these)
• Kubernetes is essential – you must be battle-hardened from its use, having taken items through to production.
• Helm and Terraform are also essential.
• Knowledge and experience in AWS hosting and services
• Demonstrable CI/CD experience, preferably using GitLab
• Experience with Terraform and Docker
• Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana Loki, Tempo, Mimir and Prometheus

In ADDITION, there are also TWO roles that require ALL of the above, PLUS: -

• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Persistent storage expertise

Advantageous

• Python / Shell, not so important, but beneficial
• If they have a network background, that’s useful
• DevOps / SRE backgrounds also ok.
• If you have managed deployments across multiple regions, that’s beneficial.
• A robust SRE mindset and the ability to support the infrastructure out of hours

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SALARY INCLUDES BENEFITS IN CASH (10% of basic salary)