Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

Join us as Infrastructure Engineer in our growing Engineering organisation and help shape the software products that power the bank’s most critical platforms.

You’ll be part of a modern, product‑focused engineering team responsible for building and running the software that underpins all of our core infrastructure services. Bringing your development experience and passion for quality engineering, you’ll help us strengthen our software engineering and Dev Ops practices as we continue to evolve our platform capabilities.

This is an opportunity to contribute to high‑impact technology, grow your skills, and build a long‑term career in an environment that values innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.

To be successful as an Infrastructure Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Coordinating high-performing, globally distributed teams in a dynamic environment.
• Knowledge or experience with infrastructure technologies, from the likes of HPe, Lenovo, Dell, Pure, hybrid cloud technologies and automation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders across diverse global teams.

• Technical curiosity and proven ability to continuously learn new technologies.
• Ability in design, troubleshooting, documentation, product lifecycle, problem evaluation/isolation, compliance, and security.
• Commitment to delivering end-to-end solutions for colleagues and business partners.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in Knutsford.

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

• Build Engineering:
  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management:
  Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• Automation:
  Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
• Security:
  Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
• Teamwork:
  Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
• Learning:
  Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives,…