Staff Cloud Infra Engineer: GCP & Kubernetes Security

Starling Bank; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday (including public)

Pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Engine by Starling is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and run the cloud foundations our cloud-native banking platform is deployed on across multiple regions and providers. You will lead engineering efforts to ensure observable, reliable, and secure systems while shaping future capabilities and tooling.

You will work in a hybrid model, collaborating across teams to deliver scalable infrastructure, automation, and best practices, with a strong emphasis on security,

Qualifications

• Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform services including GKE, Compute Engine, IAM and VPC Service Controls.
• Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure.
• Experience with key and secret management on GCP including cryptographic key ceremonies.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness.
• Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation.
• Build systems with security by design as a core foundation.
• Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS.
• Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies.
• Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance.
• Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team.
• Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry.
• Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture.
• Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for, Java, which makes up the majority of our Back End codebase.
• GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native
• Container-based architecture
• Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS)
• TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day)
• Terraform and Grafana
• RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL

Skills

GCP multi-region disaster recovery

Terraform

Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)

CI/CD pipelines

Security by design

Cloud cost optimization

Cloud IAM / Key management

Automation

Tools

GKE

EKS

Cloud SQL

Cloud KMS

Secret Manager

Job description

Engine by Starling is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and run the cloud foundations our cloud-native banking platform is deployed on across multiple regions and providers. You will lead engineering efforts to ensure observable, reliable, and secure systems while shaping future capabilities and tooling.

You will work in a hybrid model, collaborating across teams to deliver scalable infrastructure, automation, and best practices, with a strong emphasis on security,