Senior Platform Engineer - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Virgin Money

Virgin Money

Verified Company

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Business Unit:
IT Operations

Location:
Flexible, remote working available, may be required to attend Newcastle upon Tyne or Glasgow offices occasionally

Salary Range:
Up to circa £48,000 per annum DoE

It's fair to say we've been pretty busy here at Virgin Money, transforming our team to help us disrupt the status quo but we've lot more to do, if we are to grow as a digital first bank and that includes accelerating our digital agenda in a truly agile way.

We also said 'Hello' to A Life More Virgin, our exciting new proposition offering our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose.

As a growing Digital Bank, our IT Operations team "keep the lights on" all our banking systems across all business areas: from delighting our customers with new digital features, through to ensuring all our colleagues have access to effective IT capabilitiesto deliver their best every day.

We want everyone to be happy about money So whether you thrive on delivering exceptional support for customers and colleagues, or have a passion for deploying complex software infrastructure changes, and anything in between,we want to hear from you

We are looking for an experienced platform engineer to bring expertise and knowledge to our current digital platform team.

Our platform is underpinned by the OpenShift container product with F5 as an ADC running on the bank's VMware platform.

In this roleyou will help to support and develop our digital platform as well as upskilling our people.

Insatiable curiosity will inspire you to learn and develop on the go as our technologies change.

This is a collaborative role working alongside the wider Platform Engineering and Customer Banking Services teams to deliver project and strategic goals as wellas support the platform day to day.

You will be willing to join our 24 x 7 on call rota.

What do YOU get when you join Virgin MoneyRed Hot Rewards of course

38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if parttime).
Up to five extra paid wellbeing days per year.
A 35 hour working week.
20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
Market leading Pension.
Private Medical Insurance.
Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness.
A digitalfirst colleague experience.
Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows).

All these benefits are available to colleagues from their first day.
Have we got your attention?

Here's what you'll be doing...

Function as an SME for the banks digital Application Delivery Controller capability (F5 Big-IP).
Developing, supporting and maintaining the bank's Operational Platform (OpenShift, VMware).
Prioritising multiple activities in a rapidly changing environment while making time for delivering service improvements.
Engineering, validating, implementing and quality assuring technical solutions.
Supporting our services through the proactive identification of risk and swift resolution of issues.
Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to provide excellent customer service.

To be successful you'll need to bring

Experience with BIG-IP LTM, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP ASM and excellent troubleshooting and problemsolving skills in these areas.
A good understanding and experience of networking, VLANS, vSphere and general traffic management concepts.
Strong UNIX or LINUX skills.
Coding skills whether it be: Java, Python, or any other scripting language.
Familiarity with a container platform technology and awareness of docker.
Experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools and ways of working.
Proven track record of ability to engineer and deliver technology change to challenging deadlines.
An innovative and "can do" approach; a selfstarter who takes the initiative and always knows what's next on the list to improve service.
A positive attitude and excellent interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders.
Good problemsolving skills.
Exceptional communication & teamwork skills.

We'd love you to have experience

Working within large multiplatform environments.
With orchestration & automation of BIG-IP (F5).
Leading transformational change in a technology context.
With the Redhat Openshift platform.
In our toolchain : Docker, GIT version control and Github usage (including direct API access), Jenkins, GoCD, Bash.
Working in multidisciplinary agile teams.

We'd really like you to have the skills and experience listed in the "To be successful" section above. However, it's about getting the right person, so we have some flexibility in what we are looking for. The rest is just our wish list, so please don't letthat put you off applying, we'd love to hear from you

Inclusion at Virgin Money

Now the legal bit

Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us.

This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.