Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote Cloud Platform Lead

Recognisebank; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Time Off

Work From Anywhere – Up to 6 weeks rem

Learning & Development

Hybrid Working – 3 days in office, 2远

Private Medical Care

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Pay

Discretionary Company Bonus

Job summary

Recognise Bank is seeking a senior Platform & Cloud Engineering Lead to steer secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and data platforms. You will provide technical leadership, set automation standards and partner with security, risk, and engineering teams to align with governance requirements.

You will drive resilience, incident management and continuous improvement across deployment, observability and tooling, while coaching engineers and shaping platform capabilities across the function.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering and supporting cloud-based platforms.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and driving engineering improvements.
• Experience operating infrastructure as code and automation practices.
• Experience supporting change management, incident management and operational processes.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, security and technology teams.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platform concepts and services.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code principles.
• Strong knowledge of automation and deployment practices.
• Ability to develop and maintain automation and operational tooling.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting and operational support.
• Strong understanding of security, access control and governance.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve platform and infrastructure issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions that support the bank's technology and data platforms.
• Own infrastructure automation standards that improve consistency, resilience and deployment efficiency.
• Drive platform engineering best practices across deployment, observability, monitoring and operational support processes.
• Manage the availability, performance and operational health of technology platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, security and risk teams to deliver secure and scalable technology solutions.
• Improve operational resilience through proactive service improvement, incident management and root cause analysis.
• Define and maintain platform standards, controls and documentation to support consistent and sustainable operations.
• Guide engineers through technical leadership, coaching and knowledge sharing to strengthen engineering capability across the function.
• Safeguard cloud environments by embedding governance, security and risk management requirements into platform operations.

Skills

Cloud leadership

IaC

Automation

Observability

Incident management

Security governance

Collaboration

Troubleshooting

Education

Technology-related discipline degree

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Python automation

Observability tools

Job description

Recognise Bank is seeking a senior Platform & Cloud Engineering Lead to steer secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and data platforms. You will provide technical leadership, set automation standards and partner with security, risk, and engineering teams to align with governance requirements.

You will drive resilience, incident management and continuous improvement across deployment, observability and tooling, while coaching engineers and shaping platform capabilities across the function.