Infrastructure Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

🏢 About Starling Bank

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling 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 Role

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Starling, you’ll be building and supporting infrastructure that spans across physical data centres and also our cloud estates. We have a presence in both AWS and GCP. Your focus will be on supporting our internal operations and interfacing with our software engineering teams to deliver the infrastructure that drives our business, all while building security in. This role is ideal for someone who has experience of working in physical data centres who is looking to gather enterprise multi cloud experience

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Working with functional delivery teams to translate business requirements into technical implementations
• Making changes to critical physical infrastructure that supports the bank
• Designing and building patterns and frameworks to be used by other engineering teams
• Introducing automation where appropriate to stop unnecessary toil
• Taking ownership of projects and ensuring timely delivery
• Diagnosing system and network failures under pressure
• Familiarity with distributed systems and immutable infrastructure
• Keeping abreast of new technologies and changes in the industry
• Working with other teams, like our Security team, Developer Experience teams

📌 Required Qualifications

• Strong background in data centre network topologies, BGP routing, and VRF configuration for secure traffic isolation
• Experience of working with firewalls
• Working knowledge of Linux administration
• Experience or awareness Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools
• System architecture and design
• Experience with modern development practices and using Python/Golang or scripting languages like bash
• Experience in building and maintaining containers

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of core cloud services
• Experience running services in Kubernetes
• Track record of maintaining compliant environments e.g. PCI-DSS
• Experience of developing clean and highly maintainable code: creating and improving existing infrastructure services and tooling - primarily in Golang

🎁 Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever 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
• 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

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.