Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Multi-Cloud & On-Prem Expert

Starling; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Birthday leave

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work

Pension scheme

Job summary

Starling is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and maintain resilient bank-grade infrastructure across on‑premises data centres and cloud estates. You’ll work with AWS and GCP, strengthening security and reliability while supporting cross‑functional engineering teams.

You will implement infrastructure as code, automate workflows and ensure scalable, maintainable systems that power next‑gen financial services. Hybrid working with offices across the UK is available.

Qualifications

• Strong background in data centre network topologies, BGP routing, and VRF configuration for secure traffic isolation.
• Experience with firewalls, Linux administration and IaC tooling.
• Proficiency in Python or Golang and container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into technical implementations with delivery teams.
• Make changes to critical physical infrastructure supporting the bank.
• Design and build patterns and frameworks for broader engineering use.
• Introduce automation to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Take ownership of projects and ensure timely delivery.
• Diagnose system and network failures under pressure.

Skills

Linux administration

Data centre networking

BGP routing

VRF configuration

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Golang

Container orchestration

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Starling is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and maintain resilient bank-grade infrastructure across on‑premises data centres and cloud estates. You’ll work with AWS and GCP, strengthening security and reliability while supporting cross‑functional engineering teams.

You will implement infrastructure as code, automate workflows and ensure scalable, maintainable systems that power next‑gen financial services. Hybrid working with offices across the UK is available.