Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) - Engine by Starling

Starling; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in London is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design and maintain robust AWS infrastructure. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders and implementing security best practices in a hybrid-cloud environment. Ideal candidates are curious and passionate about building reliable systems. Competitive benefits include a generous holiday policy, private medical insurance, and a vibrant team culture.

Benefits

33 days holiday

Paid volunteering time

Company enhanced pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Generous family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience architecting and engineering cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with AWS services.
• Experience with automation using a scripting language.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, build and maintain secure, reliable & scalable infrastructure on AWS.
• Work with stakeholders to design hybrid-cloud systems.
• Implement security best practices.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure architecture

AWS services

Service-oriented architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Automation scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

AWS (EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, ECS, S3, Route 53, Load Balancing)

Job description

Overview

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business. Two years ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth, built on our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS platform is available to banks and financial institutions worldwide, enabling innovative digital features and efficient back-office processes that have contributed to Starling's success. Our team is engineering-led, and we seek people excited by the potential for Engine’s technology to transform banking in different markets. Our values are: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine. Our preference is that you’re located within a commutable distance of one of our offices to enable in-person collaboration.

About Engineering at Engine by Starling

Platform engineering is our passion. We deliver software that is reliable, scalable, reusable and maintainable. Our platform is expanding, bringing new challenges in how we deliver our SaaS. All engineers own features from inception through deployment to running in production. Using a first-principles approach, we break down problems and implement solutions across every stage of the lifecycle.

As an Engineer at Engine, you’ll help build, scale and deploy our first-in-class cloud-native banking platform to multiple cloud providers and regions globally. You will be encouraged to engage across all areas of our platform. We value a multi-discipline approach to engineering and a culture that supports that. Some disciplines you will be exposed to include:

• Global Multi-Cloud Architectures
• Toolchain Development
• Build and Deployment Systems
• Observability and Reliability
• Runtime Orchestration; Control and Data Planes
• SaaS API Management and Security
• Core Java Platform

Don't worry if you don't tick every box below! We value curiosity, a willingness to learn, and a desire to work across multiple disciplines. If you're excited by the challenges of building and operating a global, cloud-native platform, we encourage you to apply.

We have a great team - read about our work with Women In Tech, a Day in the Life of a Software Engineer at Engine and our interview with our Staff Platform Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, build and maintain secure, reliable & scalable infrastructure on AWS
• Take on a variety of projects and tasks covering multiple areas of engineering
• Work with stakeholders to design hybrid-cloud systems – we use AWS and also co-locate Payment HSMs in physical data centres around the world
• Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness
• Respond promptly in-hours to technical incidents
• Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation
• Implement security best practices ensuring platform compliance with ISO27001, SOC2 and PCI-DSS
• Share knowledge with colleagues by writing technical documentation and leading training sessions

Requirements

Ideally you will be an inquisitive Infrastructure Engineer, with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems. You will be passionate about building observable and reliable systems that impact the wider engineering organisation. The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of architecting and engineering cloud infrastructure to support existing services and develop new ones
• Experience with AWS services including EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, ECS, S3, Route 53, Load Balancing and Direct Connect
• Experience of service oriented architecture with containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform
• Experience with observability software
• Experience with automation using a scripting language such as Golang or Python
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding concepts of RESTful APIs and web technologies such as API gateways
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Desirably you will have:

• Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks like ISO270001, SOC2 and PCI-DSS
• Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between AWS and on-premise locations
• The ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team
• Interest in learning new technologies

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 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
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About Us

You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.

Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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