Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Shawbrook is a specialist bank driven by a purpose to power up ingenuity to create opportunity, every single day.             

We offer a diverse range of savings and loan products. From personal and business savings accounts and loans for weddings and new cars, to complex financial credit facilities for businesses requiring significant investment and mortgages for landlords with multiple properties – no two customers are ever the same.     

We give our customers the best-of-both worlds; uniquely combining strong digital capabilities with human expertise and ingenuity to deliver the best outcomes. We rise to the challenge of a complex case or unconventional circumstances, and we love to make things happen. By being creative, practical, and personal, we know we can always find the right solution for our customers.

If you’re willing to roll up your sleeves, contribute new ideas and believe anything is possible, you’re our kind of person

Work with us because you:

• Want to be part of a bank built for the dynamics of the modern world
• Relish a challenge and enjoy a fast-paced, innovative, and hardworking culture
• Enjoy finding new and better ways to solve complexity and make things happen
• Want to belong to a diverse culture that stands shoulder to shoulder with minority and underrepresented groups
• Care about society and the environment and want to be part of a business that cares too
• Want to continue to grow professionally and be the best version of yourself

The Cloud Engineering Team are a key part of the Banks future vision. We are already playing a fundamental role in modernising the Banks infrastructure as we design, build and deploy new workloads onto the Cloud for the Shawbrook Group. We are working on delivering cutting edge cloud technology for the bank as we scale up, modernise, and migrate all of our systems.

We’re looking for a passionate Cloud Engineer to join the team at this exciting and transformative time. Working in a fast paced environment you will advise and guide the business with cloud migrations, new platform deployments and 3rd party Cloud engagements.

This is a varied and dynamic role, at the centre of Shawbrook’s hybrid multi-cloud strategy. You will be supporting high-impact projects that are integral to the bank’s growth and resilience. Current projects focus on migrating essential platforms in mortgages, digital savings, and core banking to enhanced systems designed for reliability and scale.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing:

• Working to help build new and migrate old, Shawbrook systems, onto both Azure and AWS Cloud platforms.
• Working with your team lead on projects to help define, design and deploy Cloud infrastructure.
• Ensuring all Cloud Infrastructure is built to Shawbrook's defined standards such as coding, logging, alerting, security and Cloud (Industry) best practice.
• Working as part of the Cloud Infrastructure team to design long term Cloud Strategies for the Shawbrook Cloud Platform.
• Building new pipelines to build and test new Cloud Infrastructure, including testing of IaC Using Terraform and Azure DevOps.

• Cloud Deployment Architecture- You will need extensive understanding of  structuring architecture for security, resilience, scalability  and overall cost efficiency, including deploying, managing, and securing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS based cloud systems.
• Terraform- You will be using advanced Terraform skills to script and deploy all cloud infrastructure as code to DevOps pipelines.
• CICD Pipelines- You will be deploying all infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines in line with industry best practices.
• Azure & AWS- You will use both Azure and AWS to deploy, migrate and manage the Shawbrook Hybrid Multi-Cloud Platform.
• Cloud Networking Security- You will need a security focused mindset when deploying  and an understand of how network infrastructure communicates  with the cloud in line with security best practice.
• Experience working in financial services or a highly regulated environment would be beneficial.

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done