Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Multi-Cloud & Security

Starling; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Pension scheme

Volunteer time

Cycle to Work

EV leasing

Perkbox

Birthday extra day

Job summary

Starling Bank is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and support cross‑cloud infrastructure, spanning physical data centres and cloud estates, with a focus on security and automation. This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering scalable infrastructure to support banking services.

The ideal candidate has experience with data centre networks, Kubernetes, IaC, and languages such as Python or Golang, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in data centre network topologies, BGP routing, and VRF configuration for secure traffic isolation.
• Experience of working 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 our Security team, Developer Experience teams

Skills

Data centre networks

BGP routing

VRF configuration

Firewalls

Linux administration

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Python

Golang

Containers

PCI-DSS

Distributed systems

Immutable infrastructure

Automation

Tools

Cloud (AWS)

Cloud (GCP)

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Starling Bank is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and support cross‑cloud infrastructure, spanning physical data centres and cloud estates, with a focus on security and automation. This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering scalable infrastructure to support banking services.

The ideal candidate has experience with data centre networks, Kubernetes, IaC, and languages such as Python or Golang, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced fintech environment.