Infrastructure Engineer; AWS - Engine Starling

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, and two years 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. This SaaS 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.

As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering led company and we’re looking for people who are will be excited by the potential for Engine’s technology to transform banking in different markets around the world. Our purpose is underpinned by five values:
Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.

About Engineering at Engine by Starling

Platform engineering is something we are passionate about. We pride ourselves on delivering software in a reliable, scalable, reusable and maintainable manner. Our platform is expanding and with that brings new challenges to how we deliver our SaaS. All engineers are responsible for owning features from inception, through deployment, to running in production. Using a first principles approach, we aim to break down problems and implement solutions across every stage of that lifecycle.

As an Engineer at Engine, you’ll be helping to build, scale and deploy our first in class cloud native banking platform to multiple cloud providers and regions globally. You will be encouraged to get involved in all areas of our platform. We value a multi-discipline approach to engineering and a culture that supports that. Some of the disciplines you will be exposed to include:

• Global Multi-Cloud Architectures
• Toolchain Development
• Build and Deployment Systems
• Observability and Reliability
• Runtime Orchestration;
  Control and Data Planes
• SaaS API Management and Security
• Core Java Platform

Don't worry if you don't tick every box below! We value curiosity, a willingness to learn, and a desire to work across multiple disciplines. If you're excited by the challenges of building and operating a global, cloud-native platform, we encourage you to apply.

We have a great team - read about our work with Women In Tech, a Day in the life of a Software Engineer at Engine and our interview with our Staff Platform Engineer.

What you'll get to do:

• Design, document, build and maintain secure, reliable & scalable infrastructure on AWS
• Take on a variety of projects and tasks covering multiple areas of engineering
• Work with stakeholders to design hybrid-cloud systems - we use AWS and also co-locate Payment HSMs in physical data centres around the world
• Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness
• Respond promptly in-hours to technical incidents
• Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation
• Implement security best practices ensuring platform compliance with ISO
  27001, SOC2 and PCI-DSS
• Share knowledge with colleagues by writing technical documentation and leading training sessions

Ideally you will be an inquisitive Infrastructure Engineer, with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems. You will be passionate about building observable and reliable systems that impact the wider engineering organisation. The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of architecting and engineering cloud infrastructure to support existing services and develop new ones
• Experience with AWS services including EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, ECS, S3, R53, Load Balancing and Direct Connect
• Experience of service oriented architecture with containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly terraform
• Experience with observability software
• Experience with automation using a scripting language such as Golang or Python
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding concepts of RESTful APIs and web technologies such as API gateways
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Desirably you will have:

• Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks like ISO
  270001, SOC2 and PCI-DSS
• Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between AWS and…