Do you have experience as an Infrastructure Engineer in Retail Banking, Betting, or E-Commerce organisations, where there is a very high volume of customers online?
We are working in collaboration to source Infrastructure Engineers (several posts) for a Financial Services client who has offices in Edinburgh and London. The role is a 6‑day per month contract, with a single day per week (always Thursday). There is an on‑call element once every 6‑8 weeks, and you will be paid. Salaries vary according to location.
This is a pivotal role that involves 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. The platform covers Mortgages, Loans, Credit Cards, Overdrafts and new next‑gen work.
Your solutions will use automation to build reliable solutions, and comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements.
Additional Responsibilities
- 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 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.
- Minimum 5 years of experience; you should be able to discuss failures and know how to respond to them.
- Experience in architecture, design, build, or deployment will be evaluated.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
The Skills You’ll Need
- Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Terraform) and automation scripting (Python or Shell) with an understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets, with the ability to shape the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform, and domain.
Key Requirements
- AWS – S3, WAF, EC2, Load Balancing, CloudFront (any mix of these).
- • Kubernetes is essential – you must be battle‑hardened from its use and able to take items through to production.
- Helm and Terraform are also essential.
- Knowledge and experience in AWS hosting and services.
- Demonstratable CI/CD experience, preferably using GitLab.
- Experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana Loki, Tempo, Mimir, and Prometheus.
Advantageous
- Python / Shell scripting (beneficial but not critical).
- Network background is useful.
- DevOps / SRE background is acceptable.
- Managed deployments across multiple regions is beneficial.
- A robust SRE mindset and the ability to support the infrastructure out of hours.
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