Cloud Engineer - Azure

What is Flagstone?

Flagstone is many things. An online savings platform, reinventing how individuals, businesses, and charities manage, protect, and grow their cash. A diverse group of people, bound by a collaborative spirit, and shared purpose. And lastly, a thriving, profitable business – where smart people do their best work.

Each definition shares a common thread: our unique culture. It’s our pride and joy. And our competitive advantage.

A feel for our culture

To revolutionise the savings market, we need to be at our best. But high performance takes more than talent – it takes a culture of kindness, respect, and growth.

That’s why we’re building a diverse, inclusive community, where your voice is heard and valued. Where, with close support and room to develop, you can surpass even your own expectations. And be rewarded for it.

We may not change the world, but we can change the world of financial technology. And all it takes is a winning mix of drive, talent, and empathy. Our culture celebrates all three.
But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.

Does this sound like you?

The purpose of this role is to produce and maintain high quality systems to achieve business objectives through contributions to the development process including understanding of the system design/architecture. An engineer will work in partnership with relevant teams across the organisation to identify how technology can solve business challenges and be capable of answering “how and why” the technology is designed and delivered.

As a Cloud Engineer, part of your day-to-day responsibilities will involve coaching Associate Engineers, helping them understand our solutions and system design.

What you’ll do:

• Strategy – Understands the technical strategy for the squad, how it impacts on the wider business and the implications to building systems that align with the strategy.

• Delivery – Directly contributes to the delivery of solutions. Will occasionally make suggestions to improve software engineering processes and practices. Understands own impact on squad capacity.

• Decision Making – Contributes to decisions, typically made in refinements, to facilitate the next sprint’s stories and on occasion those in an upcoming feature.

• Operational Mindset – Understands and lives the “you build it, you run it” mantra and sometimes considers operational concerns as part of feature delivery, maintaining run books, monitoring & alerts. Non-functional requirements are understood and implemented.

• Quality – Delivers work that adheres to ADRs, style policies and testing strategy, and coaches’ juniors in this aspect. Occasionally provides input to the quality gates and provides feedback on standards and their implementation. Will be involved in the implementation of quality gates.
  Risk & Incident Management –Identifies risks as necessary and raises them with guidance from more experienced engineers. Will contribute to incident management, including their identification and resolution in adherence to the process.

• People – Lives the Flagstone culture and behaviours. Understands own performance with guidance. Occasionally assists with interviews. Helps with the onboarding of new joiners.

What you’ll bring:

• Confident verbal and written communication of domain to both technical and non-technical people, including strong stakeholder management
• Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft AAD and Bicep
• Networking and Development
• CI/CD pipelines
• DevOps practices, ideally in Azure DevOps
• Service performance
• Metrics and Alerting
• Architecture / System design
• Agile and scrum practices

How we reward you:

At Flagstone, the benefits extend beyond false gifts like “fruit and snacks”. Instead, we invest in your health, wealth, and professional development. Here’s a selection of our benefits:

• Private healthcare
• Life insurance (four times your annual salary)
• Dental/optical care
• Matched pension contributions (5%)
• Income protection
• Around the World in 90 days (remote working possibility)
• £1,000 annual learning bursary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Remote working kit, for when you're not in the office
• Additional 3 days community and charity leave each year
• Quarterly half days for Wellness leave
• Flexible bank holidays
• Gym discount

All are welcome.

At Flagstone, we’re assembling a diverse team that defies our industry’s norms. Think this role could suit you? We encourage you to apply, no matter your background.