At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity and promote inclusivity. Vacancies are available on a part‑time, job‑share or full‑time basis because we know the best person for the job isn’t always available full‑time. Our aim is to facilitate requests wherever possible and managers will consider requests on an individual basis.
Join the Close Brothers Technology Team where you will be accountable for the enterprise‑wide platform engineering capability that enables product value streams to deliver frequent, secure, resilient and compliant change.
Working as part of the Technology team our ideal team member will have previous experience in designing and operating CI/CD platforms at scale with excellent management skills.
Responsibilities
- Enterprise ownership of CI/CD platforms and platform engineering services consumed by all product value streams
- Decision authority to define and enforce standard delivery pathways and engineering controls
- Define and deliver the enterprise platform engineering and CI/CD strategy aligned to security, architecture and operational resilience priorities
- Deliver self‑service platforms, templates and tooling that reduce lead time and manual effort for product value streams
- Embed preventative security, risk and SDLC controls directly into CI/CD pipelines using policy‑as‑code
- Reduce release failures, rollback events and operational incidents attributable to change
- Own budgets for platform tooling and services, including cost transparency and optimisation
- Build and direct a high‑calibre platform engineering capability with clear performance expectations
Developing Our People: as a line manager, you will be responsible for inspiring and motivating your team, as well as developing performance through coaching. You will encourage your team to take responsibility for their own personal development and provide support through regular feedback.
Desired Skills
- Strong background in DevOps, infrastructure‑as‑code, and automation.
- Proven ability to lead senior engineers and multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience operating in regulated or risk‑aware environments.
Nice to Have Skills
- Financial services or similarly regulated sector experience.
- Experience reducing dependency on outsourced delivery models.
- Familiarity with policy‑as‑code and automated control enforcement
- Recognised cloud or platform engineering certifications (e.g. Azure, AWS, or equivalent).
- DevOps or CI/CD‑related certifications or formal training (e.g. DevOps Institute, similar).
- Evidence of structured management or people‑management development (formal or experiential).
We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Candidates who require the job description or application form in an alternative format, or any other adjustments, are encouraged to email us at recruit.ssc@closebrothers.com.
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