Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Capital One; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer, where you will lead the design and delivery of innovative solutions in a dynamic AWS environment. This role offers the chance to work with exceptional engineers and architects while driving the migration to the cloud. You will be instrumental in solving complex engineering challenges, mentoring your peers, and ensuring high standards of operational excellence. With a focus on collaboration and continuous learning, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of technology within the organization. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and eager to grow your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Bonus

Generous holiday entitlement

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits

Season-ticket loans

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Access to a fully-serviced gym

Subsidised restaurant

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud engineering and DevOps practices.
• Strong ability to design and deliver complex solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of solutions in AWS, focusing on automation.
• Collaborate with teams to define migration and capability roadmaps.

Skills

AWS

DevOps tooling

Scripting

CICD pipelines

Cyber security principles

Networking principles

Agile delivery

Solution design

Full stack development

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Management Console

CI/CD tools

Agile project management tools

Job description

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer

About this role

You’ll work with high-performing infrastructure and software engineering teams, and some incredible Engineers and Architects, supporting the UK business’ multi-year migration to AWS - solving complex problems and leading solution migrations to an already well-established public cloud footprint.

What you’ll do

• Take the lead on the design and delivery of solutions to solve complex problems within our Public Cloud (AWS) environment, with a keen view on automation and simplifying / streamlining tasks to enable our application engineering customers and accelerate the delivery of new business features through our Enterprise toolsets.
• Working with SMEs, Engineers, Architects, and other stakeholders - you will lead initiatives from “idea” stage, through design socialisation and approval, key decision making, hands-on delivery, and handover into Support.
• As a member of both the Outcome Team Leadership Team and as a Senior Engineer in an agile delivery team, you will work both within and across teams, blending hands-on engineering with coaching and mentoring of engineers, influencing direction, elevating and including others, and being a source of technical innovation and high standards.
• Work with teams, Engineering Managers, Architects, and Technical Programme Managers to define and deliver a migration and capability roadmap.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders, tribes, Cyber security, Operations, and the wider engineering community.
• Identify and define engineering patterns, capabilities, initiatives, and influence best practices for Operational Excellence, Security, and Quality Engineering.

What we’re looking for

• A capable, technical lead, with a passion for solving complex problems, delivering high-quality and well-documented solutions, and helping engineers to grow.
• Experience with building, re-platforming, or re-hosting solutions into the public cloud.
• Strong background in scripting, DevOps tooling, and solution design or full stack development.
• Ability to take business and technical requirements through solution design and delivery, communicating effectively with different types of audience.
• Diverse technical experience, ideally including cloud engineering in a major public cloud, and general Enterprise Tech.
• An effective communicator and influencer, able to work in and across delivery teams towards a common goal.
• A strong growth-mindset, interest in learning new technologies, tools, libraries and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Cyber security principles and how they apply to infrastructure and cloud technologies.
• Extensive experience of CICD pipelines.
• Understanding of networking principles.
• Familiar and comfortable in an agile delivery environment.
• Has high standards for engineering excellence.

What you’ll get to learn (any previous experience would be advantageous)

• AWS to an advanced level (training and certification available).
• Work and grow with some incredible Engineers, Architects, and Cyber specialists across the UK and wider US business, as required.
• Learn Capital One’s Enterprise-scale approach to adoption of the public cloud.
• Solve complex, real-world engineering problems in a regulated financial services environment.
• Plenty of technical and leadership development opportunities through our internal and external training programmes, as well as an “Individual Contributor” career path.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position and is based in our Nottingham office. We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working model - one that creates the opportunity to work in your own way, but also provides great spaces for in-person collaboration.

We’re big on collaboration and connection, so you’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

We are committed to creating a level playing field and seek to create teams that are representative of our customers and the communities we serve. We’d love to hear from you if you identify with a typically under-represented group in our industry and are particularly keen to hear from women and ethnic minority candidates.

What’s in it for you

• Bring us all this and you’ll be rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation.
• We love continuous learning and that’s why we give you 10% of your time to work on cutting-edge innovative projects that shape the way we will work in the future.
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers).
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave.
• Open-plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms.

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.