Lead Cloud Platform Engineer | London, UK

TSB Bank; London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking bank as a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, where you'll play a pivotal role in transforming banking services through innovative cloud solutions. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability in all engineering activities. You'll collaborate in a dynamic environment that values diversity and inclusion, while enjoying hybrid working arrangements that support your work-life balance. If you're passionate about cloud technologies and want to make a real impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Car allowance

Flexible benefits allowance

Hybrid working arrangements

Diverse working environment

Inclusive organization

Qualifications

• SME level knowledge in AWS Cloud Platforms and Platform Engineering disciplines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Build Cloud Solutions to leverage Cloud technologies effectively.
• Contribute to standards and implement improvements for engineering excellence.

Skills

AWS Cloud Platforms

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Job description

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Role: Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Function: CIO
Salary: Up to £75K (Edinburgh) & £85K (London) plus a generous benefits package, including car allowance & flexible benefits allowance
Location: London or Edinburgh - Hybrid working

At TSB, we're transforming the service we provide our customers, and technology will be at the forefront of that change. It's an exciting transformation and we're investing in an enhanced in-house capability to deliver it - so, if you're a forward-looking and innovative IT professional, this is your opportunity to be in on the ground floor and help us build the future of banking.

How you'll make a difference

As a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll have SME level knowledge across Cloud Providers and Platform Engineering disciplines without line management responsibilities. You'll build Cloud Solutions to ensure the organisation can take full advantage of Cloud based technologies. You'll contribute to standards, guardrails and best practices, and implement improvements to processes and tooling to ensure engineering excellence.

You'll have a strong understanding of operational requirements, and ensure Scalability, Resiliency, Observability, Security, Cost and Maintainability are at the forefront of all engineering activities.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science is desirable or the equivalent work experience will also be considered.
• SME Level knowledge in AWS Cloud Platforms and Platform Engineering disciplines.
• Infra As Code (i.e. Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, Ansible etc).
• Kubernetes (incl Service Mesh, Policy as Code, Resiliency, Scaling).
• Cloud Landing zones, Cloud Networking and Cloud Security.
• SDLC & CI/CD tooling (ie GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Artifact Repository).
• Knowledge of software engineering including testing frameworks, and secure code delivery (ie SCA, SAST, DAST).
• Scripting/Coding (Bash, Python).
• End to End Observability solutions (logging, monitoring, alerting).
• Strong problem solving skills including level 3 support (not out of hours) and root cause analysis experience.

What we offer in return

• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work/life balance.
• An attractive reward and myTSB benefits package, giving you more of what matters to you.
• A diverse, energising, and collaborative working environment.
• A truly inclusive organisation that values difference, where everyone feels welcome and has access to equal opportunities.
• A career that's enriching and full of opportunities.

If this sounds right up your street, come and join our team. We make things happen!

We are TSB. Life Made More

Inclusion matters at TSB. We want our colleagues to feel at home here, no matter their background. Diverse teams are what helps us deliver Money Confidence. For everyone. Every day.

Did our job advert catch your eye, but you don't meet all the requirements? Don't let that put you off, if you meet some of the requirements and have an open, curious mindset, we'd love to hear from you!

Remember TSB is a Disability Confident Leader which means you are entitled to be part of the selection process for a role if you meet the minimum criteria outlined in the job advert.