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Starling Bank
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London, Greater London
Infrastructure Engineer
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Job Description
We are a leading digital bank on a mission to disrupt the banking industry. We've built an app with smart money management tools to help our customers live a healthier financial life. We also offer groundbreaking B2B banking and payments services. Since our launch in 2014, we've surpassed 1 millions accounts in total: including 88,000 business accounts for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our total deposits, meanwhile, have surpassed 1 billion over the same period. We're a fully licensed UK bank, and we have the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive technology company. We've won the Best British Bank award two years running, and now employ more than 800 people across our London & Southampton offices, with more to come from Cardiff. Everyone at Starling gets the chance to own interesting things from day one, and we're told one of the best things about working here is the ability to achieve a lot in a short space of time. We are very open about how we deliver software - have a look at our QCon presentations or engineering podcasts to see what our developers have been up to. You can also try coding against your own bank account with us using our open APIs (see the developer site) Starling engineers love building things, creating new stuff, learning new technologies and working with others across all areas of the business to bring brilliant products and features to life. We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. Requirements As an Infrastructure Engineer at Starling, you'll be building and supporting infrastructure that spans across AWS, Google Cloud and our physical data centres to support our internal operations and interfacing with our software engineering teams to deliver the infrastructure that drives our business. Duties of the role will entail: * Working with functional delivery teams to translate business requirements into technical implementations * Designing and building patterns and frameworks to be used by engineering teams * Taking ownership of projects and ensuring timely delivery * Providing escalation assistance to engineering teams * Diagnosing system and network failures under pressure * Keeping abreast of new technologies and changes in the industry * On-call duties approximately one week in six What we would like from you: * Thorough understanding of data centre network technologies (HA clustered firewalls; switching concepts - VLANs, STP, LACP; routing protocols - BGP). * Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking and experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools (Cloudformation, Terraform). * In-depth knowledge of AWS and/or GCP cloud services Benefits * 33 days holiday (including public hols). You'll also get your birthday on us. * 16 hours paid volunteering time a year. * Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth. * Contributory pension scheme. * Friday breakfast - bacon and egg rolls to vegan sausage butties. * Our kitchens are stocked with fresh fruit and a range of hot and soft drinks. * We have many varied social groups set up and run by our employees - ForTheWin (a gaming group), Starling FC, book club and many more! * Discounts on cinema tickets, restaurants, shopping and train tickets via a Perkbox membership. * Access to 'salary sacrifice' benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme. * Gym membership options. Full details are available on our careers site.