Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Multi‑Cloud & Automation

Starling Bank; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance with Vitalty

Life insurance 4x salary

Group income protection

Salary sacrifice pension

Volunteer time

Perkbox membership

Cycle to Work

EV leasing

Job summary

Starling Bank is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and support physical data centres and cloud estates, spanning AWS and GCP. You will collaborate with software teams to deliver scalable infrastructure and embed security by design.

The role requires hands-on experience with networking, Linux, and IaC, plus containerisation and Kubernetes. This hybrid role is based in the UK with the potential to influence engineering standards across the bank.

Qualifications

• Strong background in data centre network topologies, BGP routing, and VRF configuration.
• Experience with firewalls.
• Working knowledge of Linux administration.
• Experience or awareness Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools.
• System architecture and design.
• Experience with modern development practices and using Python/Golang or scripting languages like bash.
• Experience in building and maintaining containers.

Responsibilities

• Working with functional delivery teams to translate business requirements into technical implementations.
• Making changes to critical physical infrastructure that supports the bank.
• Designing and building patterns and frameworks to be used by other engineering teams.
• Introducing automation where appropriate to stop unnecessary toil.
• Taking ownership of projects and ensuring timely delivery.
• Diagnosing system and network failures under pressure.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and immutable infrastructure.
• Keeping abreast of new technologies and changes in the industry.
• Working with other teams, like Security and Developer Experience teams.

Skills

Data centre networking

BGP routing

VRF configuration

Firewalls

Linux administration

Infrastructure as Code

Python or Golang

Containerization

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Starling Bank is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and support physical data centres and cloud estates, spanning AWS and GCP. You will collaborate with software teams to deliver scalable infrastructure and embed security by design.

The role requires hands-on experience with networking, Linux, and IaC, plus containerisation and Kubernetes. This hybrid role is based in the UK with the potential to influence engineering standards across the bank.