Infrastructure Engineer

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

6/7/2025

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job Description

Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer

• You’ll collaborate in building the best possible solutions for public and private cloud environments and engineer infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
• You’ll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, identifying ways to use new and existing technology tools to enhance performance, removing inefficiencies
• This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions
  
  
  

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
• Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product
• Assist with the development of team members
• Lead technical workshops across multiple teams
  
  
  

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in software development or automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You’ll also have experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
• Extensive experience of working and maintaining one of the following databases, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server
• Working experience with Puppet, and working knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience in software testing practices and tools, using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Public cloud vendor knowledge covering AWS and GCP
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on-premise datacentre
• Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders