Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Starling, you will build and support a hybrid infrastructure spanning on‑prem data centres and cloud (AWS and GCP). You’ll enable secure, scalable services that power the bank’s operations and collaborate with software teams to drive reliable delivery. You’ll design reusable patterns, automate repetitive work, and own critical infrastructure changes. This role offers impact in a fast‑moving fintech culture that values ownership and cross‑functional collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Birthday day off
• pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life insurance 4x salary
• Cycle to Work

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into technical implementations with delivery teams
• Modify and maintain critical physical infrastructure supporting the bank
• Design and build reusable patterns and frameworks for engineering teams
• Introduce automation to reduce toil and improve efficiency
• Take ownership of projects and ensure timely delivery
• Diagnose system and network failures under pressure
• Work with Security and Developer Experience teams
• Stay current with new technologies and industry changes

Key requirements

• Strong background in data centre network topologies, BGP routing, and VRF configuration
• Experience with firewalls
• Linux administration knowledge
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and provisioning tools
• System architecture and design
• Experience with modern development practices and Python/Golang or Bash scripting
• Experience in building and maintaining containers
• Knowledge of core cloud services (desirable)
• Experience running services in Kubernetes (desirable)
• PCI-DSS compliant environments experience (desirable)
• Developing clean, maintainable code in Golang (desirable)

• customer focus
• collaboration
• problem solving under pressure
• data centre networking
• BGP
• VRF

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