Moneycorp
As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll take ownership of day to day operations and deliver impactful projects across Azure and IaaS (Windows and Linux). You'll enhance landing zones, build reusable modules, and drive automation to strengthen our cloud platform. Working closely with DevOps and SRE teams, you'll implement secure, reliable, and cost efficient patterns, while mentoring engineers and promoting best practices. Your focus will be high quality execution, ensuring stability, performance, and compliance, while contributing to continuous improvement and collaborating across teams to deliver a scalable, resilient platform that powers business growth and innovation. Key Responsibilities Operational Ownership (BAU) Operate and improve Azure platform services and IaaS workloads across Windows and Linux for stability, performance, and compliance Implement hardening baselines and patch orchestration, and maintain desired state with DSC or Ansible Enforce secure RBAC, Azure Policy, and identity patterns with AAD and PIM across subscriptions and management groups Own observability runbooks and baselines, including alerting, metrics, logs, dashboards, backups, and DR drills to reduce MTTR Administer Windows Server (AD, GPO, IIS) and provide Linux support including systemd, patching, and log management Project Delivery and Engineering Contribute to landing zones and reusable platform modules using Bicep and Terraform Implement secure connectivity per the platform blueprint: hub and spoke or vWAN, Private Endpoints, DNS, and hybrid links via ExpressRoute or VPN Support VMware to Azure migrations from readiness through cutover, rollback, and DR patterns Deliver CI/CD pipeline templates in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions with policy gates, secrets scanning, and SBOM generation Enable the Internal Developer Platform to support IaC/CaC based self service environment provisioning Security, Reliability & Cost Controls Embed secure by default patterns, integrate Defender and Conditional Access, and shift left security for images and IaC in pipelines Apply SRE practices such as SLOs and error budgets, and codify operability standards for new capabilities Support FinOps guardrails with tagging, budgets, and alerts; analyse usage and implement cost optimisations without impacting SLAs Collaboration, Mentoring and Governance Mentor and coach platform engineers through pairing, PR reviews, runbook creation, and knowledge sharing Partner with DevOps and SRE to standardise container and registry patterns for AKS or ARO, deployments, and environment parity across stages Contribute to technical governance forums, propose incremental improvements, and document decisions and reusable patterns Collaborate with Principals and architecture boards on architectural approvals where required Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required Azure platform operations across enterprise IaaS and PaaS, including landing zones, subscriptions, RBAC, policy, and governance Strong Windows Server administration (AD, GPO, IIS) with practical Linux experience (RHEL/Ubuntu) for broader support Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and/or Bicep, using reusable modules and Git based workflows Configuration as Code with Ansible and/or DSC to maintain hardened, compliant desired state Automation and scripting with PowerShell and Bash, with Python desirable for tooling CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, including quality gates, secrets/security scanning, and SBOM generation Azure networking fundamentals: VNets, vWAN, ExpressRoute, VPN, Private Endpoints, and DNS, plus hybrid connectivity patterns Containers and Kubernetes exposure (AKS or ARO), image registry practices, and environment provisioning/on demand environments Observability and reliability: monitoring, logging, alerting baselines, SRE concepts (SLOs, error budgets), backup/DR, and patch orchestration Security and compliance: Zero Trust, identity and access management (AAD, PIM), and integration with Defender and vulnerability scanning Cost optimisation using FinOps practices, tagging strategies, budgeting, and guardrails Desirable (not essential) Experience supporting VMware to Azure migration Any experience working with Temenos or similar core banking platforms would be advantageous Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). Desirable (not essential): Relevant Azure certifications - Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ 104, Azure Solutions Architect/Identity/Security (AZ 305/AZ 500), DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ 400), FinOps Certified Practitioner, ITIL 4 Foundation Fostering a culture of belonging and inclusivity We're committed to creating a workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and included. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we actively cultivate an inclusive culture where diversity thrives, and we empower our colleagues to drive meaningful change within our organisation through initiatives such as our DE&I focus groups and value champion network. By measuring our efforts through regular assessments and listening to employee feedback, we strive to ensure our initiatives are impactful and responsive to the evolving needs of our workforce. Together, we want to build a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, as we believe this is the foundation of innovation, creativity, and collective success.
As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll take ownership of day to day operations and deliver impactful projects across Azure and IaaS (Windows and Linux). You'll enhance landing zones, build reusable modules, and drive automation to strengthen our cloud platform. Working closely with DevOps and SRE teams, you'll implement secure, reliable, and cost efficient patterns, while mentoring engineers and promoting best practices. Your focus will be high quality execution, ensuring stability, performance, and compliance, while contributing to continuous improvement and collaborating across teams to deliver a scalable, resilient platform that powers business growth and innovation. Key Responsibilities Operational Ownership (BAU) Operate and improve Azure platform services and IaaS workloads across Windows and Linux for stability, performance, and compliance Implement hardening baselines and patch orchestration, and maintain desired state with DSC or Ansible Enforce secure RBAC, Azure Policy, and identity patterns with AAD and PIM across subscriptions and management groups Own observability runbooks and baselines, including alerting, metrics, logs, dashboards, backups, and DR drills to reduce MTTR Administer Windows Server (AD, GPO, IIS) and provide Linux support including systemd, patching, and log management Project Delivery and Engineering Contribute to landing zones and reusable platform modules using Bicep and Terraform Implement secure connectivity per the platform blueprint: hub and spoke or vWAN, Private Endpoints, DNS, and hybrid links via ExpressRoute or VPN Support VMware to Azure migrations from readiness through cutover, rollback, and DR patterns Deliver CI/CD pipeline templates in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions with policy gates, secrets scanning, and SBOM generation Enable the Internal Developer Platform to support IaC/CaC based self service environment provisioning Security, Reliability & Cost Controls Embed secure by default patterns, integrate Defender and Conditional Access, and shift left security for images and IaC in pipelines Apply SRE practices such as SLOs and error budgets, and codify operability standards for new capabilities Support FinOps guardrails with tagging, budgets, and alerts; analyse usage and implement cost optimisations without impacting SLAs Collaboration, Mentoring and Governance Mentor and coach platform engineers through pairing, PR reviews, runbook creation, and knowledge sharing Partner with DevOps and SRE to standardise container and registry patterns for AKS or ARO, deployments, and environment parity across stages Contribute to technical governance forums, propose incremental improvements, and document decisions and reusable patterns Collaborate with Principals and architecture boards on architectural approvals where required Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required Azure platform operations across enterprise IaaS and PaaS, including landing zones, subscriptions, RBAC, policy, and governance Strong Windows Server administration (AD, GPO, IIS) with practical Linux experience (RHEL/Ubuntu) for broader support Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and/or Bicep, using reusable modules and Git based workflows Configuration as Code with Ansible and/or DSC to maintain hardened, compliant desired state Automation and scripting with PowerShell and Bash, with Python desirable for tooling CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, including quality gates, secrets/security scanning, and SBOM generation Azure networking fundamentals: VNets, vWAN, ExpressRoute, VPN, Private Endpoints, and DNS, plus hybrid connectivity patterns Containers and Kubernetes exposure (AKS or ARO), image registry practices, and environment provisioning/on demand environments Observability and reliability: monitoring, logging, alerting baselines, SRE concepts (SLOs, error budgets), backup/DR, and patch orchestration Security and compliance: Zero Trust, identity and access management (AAD, PIM), and integration with Defender and vulnerability scanning Cost optimisation using FinOps practices, tagging strategies, budgeting, and guardrails Desirable (not essential) Experience supporting VMware to Azure migration Any experience working with Temenos or similar core banking platforms would be advantageous Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). Desirable (not essential): Relevant Azure certifications - Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ 104, Azure Solutions Architect/Identity/Security (AZ 305/AZ 500), DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ 400), FinOps Certified Practitioner, ITIL 4 Foundation Fostering a culture of belonging and inclusivity We're committed to creating a workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and included. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we actively cultivate an inclusive culture where diversity thrives, and we empower our colleagues to drive meaningful change within our organisation through initiatives such as our DE&I focus groups and value champion network. By measuring our efforts through regular assessments and listening to employee feedback, we strive to ensure our initiatives are impactful and responsive to the evolving needs of our workforce. Together, we want to build a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, as we believe this is the foundation of innovation, creativity, and collective success.
Tesco Bank
Description & Requirements System Engineer - Cloud Our purpose The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. While it's an innovation, ours is a business built on the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical professionals, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that's changing the face of banking for our customers We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances. The Role Tesco Bank is looking for a System Engineer with knowledge of AWS and some experience engineering new automated cloud-native services using continuous delivery techniques underpinned by instrumentation that monitors performance and compliance. You will be: • Engineering new cloud services, based on agreed designs, that exploit public cloud infrastructure and platform services plus cloud-native design patterns (loosely coupled, containers, serverless) that support our drive towards enabling product teams to self-serve. • Implementing solutions using our continuous delivery tools chains to drive high levels of automation via a test-driven development approach that ensures consistency across the cloud services we develop. • Implementing instrumentation as part of the build of new cloud services to ensure we can continuously monitor and report on the compliance of cloud services against our key controls. • Working closely with our Senior System Engineers and Engineering Leads to identify areas of improvement, input into our backlog, develop stories and acceptance criteria, to plan and estimate future sprints. • Engaging with IT Security teams plus key suppliers to ensure the cloud services we engineer are secure, resilient, optimised, and compliant. • Contributing to new engineering standards and patterns including the creation of code artefacts and tooling that support broad reuse across engineering teams. • Capturing and sharing cloud-related knowledge and experience across the Engineering team and broader organisation through blog posts, videos, and training sessions What you'll bring We work with the following tech stack, we don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank. • Enthusiasm and passion for using public cloud platforms and high levels of automation to help the business build new innovative services. • Ability to solve technical problems across multiple technology domains. • Systems administration background with experience of Windows Server including scripting with Powershell. • Hands-on experience with AWS, specifically with EC2, RDS and S3. • Knowledge of modern architectures and the toolchains required to effectively deploy and operate cloud solutions. • Knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Ruby) and continuous integration/delivery approaches and tools. • Understanding and experience of agile working practices and automated testing methodologies including test-driven development (TDD). • Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage technical stakeholders at all levels. How to apply We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, look for ways to further develop themselves & careers, and have an excellent work/life balance Our colleagues are working remotely. Looking to the future, we are excited to understand our new normal and are committed to exploring the opportunities that a hybrid working environment could bring to our wider team. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more! Our Purpose The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. While it's an innovation, ours is a business built on the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical professionals, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that's changing the face of banking for our customers. We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances. Requisition description D&I statement - We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, and look for ways to further develop themselves & career, and have an excellent work/life balance. Our colleagues are working remotely. Looking to the future, we are excited to understand our 'new normal' and are committed to exploring the opportunities that a hybrid working environment could bring for our wider team. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!
Description & Requirements System Engineer - Cloud Our purpose The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. While it's an innovation, ours is a business built on the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical professionals, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that's changing the face of banking for our customers We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances. The Role Tesco Bank is looking for a System Engineer with knowledge of AWS and some experience engineering new automated cloud-native services using continuous delivery techniques underpinned by instrumentation that monitors performance and compliance. You will be: • Engineering new cloud services, based on agreed designs, that exploit public cloud infrastructure and platform services plus cloud-native design patterns (loosely coupled, containers, serverless) that support our drive towards enabling product teams to self-serve. • Implementing solutions using our continuous delivery tools chains to drive high levels of automation via a test-driven development approach that ensures consistency across the cloud services we develop. • Implementing instrumentation as part of the build of new cloud services to ensure we can continuously monitor and report on the compliance of cloud services against our key controls. • Working closely with our Senior System Engineers and Engineering Leads to identify areas of improvement, input into our backlog, develop stories and acceptance criteria, to plan and estimate future sprints. • Engaging with IT Security teams plus key suppliers to ensure the cloud services we engineer are secure, resilient, optimised, and compliant. • Contributing to new engineering standards and patterns including the creation of code artefacts and tooling that support broad reuse across engineering teams. • Capturing and sharing cloud-related knowledge and experience across the Engineering team and broader organisation through blog posts, videos, and training sessions What you'll bring We work with the following tech stack, we don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank. • Enthusiasm and passion for using public cloud platforms and high levels of automation to help the business build new innovative services. • Ability to solve technical problems across multiple technology domains. • Systems administration background with experience of Windows Server including scripting with Powershell. • Hands-on experience with AWS, specifically with EC2, RDS and S3. • Knowledge of modern architectures and the toolchains required to effectively deploy and operate cloud solutions. • Knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Ruby) and continuous integration/delivery approaches and tools. • Understanding and experience of agile working practices and automated testing methodologies including test-driven development (TDD). • Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage technical stakeholders at all levels. How to apply We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, look for ways to further develop themselves & careers, and have an excellent work/life balance Our colleagues are working remotely. Looking to the future, we are excited to understand our new normal and are committed to exploring the opportunities that a hybrid working environment could bring to our wider team. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more! Our Purpose The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. While it's an innovation, ours is a business built on the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical professionals, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that's changing the face of banking for our customers. We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances. Requisition description D&I statement - We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, and look for ways to further develop themselves & career, and have an excellent work/life balance. Our colleagues are working remotely. Looking to the future, we are excited to understand our 'new normal' and are committed to exploring the opportunities that a hybrid working environment could bring for our wider team. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!
