Senior Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Senior Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

About this role

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will work as part of the Tech Delivery organisation supporting the engineering and continued development of a growing AWS cloud footprint within Capital One. As a contributor to a focused Core Infrastructure delivery team you will ensure the 'infrastructure as code' approach, looking to automate as much as possible and drive efficient working practices as the growth of our Cloud platform continues. Our Cloud Engineers are responsible for complex problem resolution, and we frequently find ourselves working with geographically dispersed teams and massively integrated systems to identify root cause and resolve issues.

What you’ll do

• Deliver, optimise and support our shared cloud services that are consumed by the UK business.  
• Work with the enterprise to adopt new technologies. 
• Enhance our AWS account design, deployment and validation mechanisms
• Design, develop and maintain high quality Core Infrastructure services
• Work collaboratively across teams spanning multiple time zones

What we’re looking for

• Someone with previous experience as a Software Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer.
• Familiarity with the concepts of infrastructure as code, test driven development and automated deployment of infrastructure solutions.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in various languages (such as Python, BASH and Go).
• Solid understanding of Cloud / Virtual Compute platforms and their supporting infrastructure, including Full OS Machine Image, Container creation and management.
• Strong understanding of Always on, High Availability cloud strategies.
• A proven ability to understand complex problems and own the planning and delivery of a technical solution. 
• A team player, who is self driven with good communication skills willing to share and teach amongst peers.
• Someone who is comfortable supporting a critical platform and understands the need to work with various teams across tech

What you’ll get to learn.

• Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services.
• Hands on experience of Chef and Ansible as configuration management tools.
• Good understanding of API's and Micro services architectures. 
• Experience of modern application development (CICD pipelines etc).
• Hands on experience of complex Jenkins pipelines
• Agile software development methods and working as part of an Agile Team
• A range of DevOps tooling, such as GitHub, Artifactory, Jenkins, Vault etc
• Designing Enterprise solutions for pieces of core infrastructure
• Delivering work for multiple stakeholders

Where and how you'll work.

This is a permanent position and is based in our Nottingham office.  

We're big on collaboration and connection - our core in-the-office days are Tuesday to Thursday - you’ll be led by your team, the type of work you do and of course your preferences. Many of our team have flexible working patterns so we’re open to discuss flexible working arrangements with you.

What’s in it for you.

Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation.

We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers).

Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave.

Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry
• Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com  All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.