Staff Infrastructure Engineer, GCP & Cloud Reliability (Hybrid)

Starling; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Pension Scheme

Generous Holiday (33 days)

Cycle to Work

Perkbox membership

Volunteer days

Job summary

Engine by Starling is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and run scalable cloud foundations across regions and providers. You’ll drive reliability, security by design, and cost efficiency in a fast-moving fintech environment.

You will own complex infra projects from inception to production, write RFCs and ADRs, and lead by example to raise technical standards across the team. A strong background in GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, and security controls is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with multi-region disaster recovery on GCP.
• Ability to bootstrap Google Cloud Organisations and structure resource hierarchies.
• Experience with GCP services including GKE, Compute Engine, IAM and VPC Service Controls.
• Proficient in writing clean, modular Terraform code.
• Experience with containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure.
• Experience with key/secret management on GCP (KMS, EKM, Secret Manager).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP.
• Ensure performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness of cloud environments.
• Embrace automation and minimize manual work.
• Build security by design as a core foundation.
• Ensure platform compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS.
• Lead complex infra projects from inception to production and shape future capabilities.
• Write RFCs and ADRs with runbooks and operating models.

Skills

GCP DR multi-region

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Security by design

Observability tooling

Networking concepts

Tools

GCP

GKE

Cloud KMS/EKM/Secret Manager

IAM

Cloud Monitoring/Logging

Grafana

TeamCity

Terraform

Job description

Engine by Starling is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and run scalable cloud foundations across regions and providers. You’ll drive reliability, security by design, and cost efficiency in a fast-moving fintech environment.

You will own complex infra projects from inception to production, write RFCs and ADRs, and lead by example to raise technical standards across the team. A strong background in GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, and security controls is essential.