Staff Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) - Engine by Starling

About the Position

Staff Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) - Engine by Starling

Starling Bank

London, UK

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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

Requirements

• Core Skills:

  • Java
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Grafana
  • CI/CD
  • Security
  • Observability

• Secondary Skills:

  • Python
  • Golang
  • Bash
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Networking
  • Database Monitoring
  • Performance Tuning

• Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience

• Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise’s resource hierarchy

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (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 - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies

• Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated/Partner Interconnect

• Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD

• Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana)

• Experience setting up Google Workspace/Google Cloud Identity

• Experience with automation using a Scripting language like Python or Go

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines

• An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts

• Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models

We Offer

• 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Incentives refer a friend scheme
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About the Company

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.

Engine is Starling’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business.

Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling’s success.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!

The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

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