Staff Infrastructure Engineer: Cloud, Security & Automation

Starling Bank; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Birthday off

Pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Job summary

Engine by Starling is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on — across multiple regions and cloud providers globally.

You will be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation.

Qualifications

• Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience.
• Bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, policies and resource hierarchy.
• Experience with GCP services including GKE, Compute Engine, IAM and VPC Service Controls.
• Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers and immutable infrastructure.
• Experience with key and secret management on GCP — Cloud KMS, EKM and Secret Manager.
• Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to on-premise locations.
• Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for CI/CD.
• Experience with observability tooling — Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, OpenTelemetry and Grafana.
• Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity.
• Experience with automation using Python or Go.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts.
• Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs with runbooks and operating models.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP.
• Ensure performance and reliability of cloud environments while measuring cost-effectiveness.
• Embrace automation and minimize 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 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.

Skills

GCP disaster recovery

Terraform

Kubernetes

Security by design

CI/CD

Observability

Networking

Hybrid connectivity

Key management

APIs

Scripting

Job description

Engine by Starling is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on — across multiple regions and cloud providers globally.

You will be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation.