Senior Engineer

At Metro Bank, we believe the best banking experience starts with people who genuinely care. We’re not just delivering banking services - we’re building trust through authentic connections. Here, our people come first; our colleagues are part of a team that values individuality, collaboration, and long‑standing relationships. We are also all about balance so most of our jobs offer the opportunity for hybrid working built around your role and home life, wherever possible.

As a Senior Engineer – Platform Engineering (Azure Architect and SRE) you will bring strong Azure design and SRE principles to evolve our cloud foundations. This role ensures our platforms are secure, observable, compliant and built for resilience and repeatability.

• Own Azure architecture patterns for networking, identity, resiliency and platform services.
• Drive SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and automated reliability tooling.
• Lead observability, monitoring, logging and incident response engineering.
• Improve platform scalability, disaster recovery, backup strategy and environmental parity.
• Provide architectural direction to squads and mentor engineers across cloud disciplines.

And… we are a bank so risk is a part of everything we do. We love people who take responsibility, do the right thing for customers, colleagues and Metro Bank and have the ability to call out any concerns.

• Deep Azure architecture experience including landing zones and cloud governance.
• Strong SRE mindset with proven hands on reliability engineering.
• Strong automation experience with IaC and cloud security controls.
• Expertise across Kubernetes, container platforms, networking and identity fundamentals.
• Ability to influence platform standards and guide engineering teams.
• Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all our stakeholders.

• We believe in “one in, one up” at Metro Bank, growing our own and promoting from within.
• We will make sure that you are well‑rewarded by providing you with a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits, including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, and a number of colleague discounts!
• We will give you the training to ensure you succeed in your role and plenty of internal opportunities to progress your career (around 40% of our recruitment comes from internal promotions!