Apto Solutions
Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3BA, UK
Who this is for
An early-career engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. Security or observability background — either is welcome.
You have been working for eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role — a platform team, a SOC or security engineering team, an MSP or MSSP, an infrastructure or DevOps team, a vendor’s support or professional services desk — and you are looking for your first move. You have had your hands on something that runs in production and matters to somebody. You want to go deeper, faster, in a smaller business where the work you do is seen. This is not a graduate scheme and it is not a helpdesk. It is a real engineering seat with real customers, real supervision and a clear path up.
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. You will help run customer telemetry platforms day to day, improve them, and contribute to the platform that lets us run them well. You will do this as part of a small engineering pool, with a senior engineer checking your work before it reaches a customer and a line manager who is accountable for your development.
Operate has two shapes and you will work in both.
Operate Core is always-on. It is continuous ownership of a customer’s platform — health, ingestion, data quality, alerting, upgrades, capacity. There is no handover and no final deliverable. The platform is ours to keep healthy for as long as the customer is ours. Success is measured in the absence of surprises and in the platform being demonstrably better in six months than it is today.
Operate Attach is sprint-based improvement. A customer has a defined problem — noisy alerts, a data source that will not normalise, ingest costs running away, a detection gap, a migration — and we take a scoped block of work and fix it. Attach has a start, a shape and an end. It sits on top of Core, for the same customers, with the same engineers.
Alongside that you will take a share of professional services delivery: shorter, project-shaped engagements that are usually how a customer first meets us.
What You’ll do
Everything below is done with supervision at first and with increasing independence as you show you can carry it. We will be explicit with you about where that line is and how it moves.
Day-to-day health of customer platforms.
Ingestion pipelines, data quality, alerting, licensing and capacity, upgrades and patching. You will start by owning a slice of a named customer estate, and you will be expected to notice problems before the customer does.
Incident and problem work.
Triage, diagnosis and resolution — and then the harder part, which is the root cause and the permanent fix so it does not come back.
Content and configuration.
Detections, dashboards, parsers, normalisation, alert rules, pipeline routing — built properly, peer reviewed, version controlled, documented.
Attach sprints and PS work.
Taking a defined piece of a scoped improvement, delivering it, and being able to show what changed.
Automation.
If you do something manually three times, we expect you to want to automate the fourth. Most of our platform tooling started as an engineer being annoyed by something.
Documentation and runbooks.
Your own, to a standard, every time. Undocumented work is unfinished work.
What this role is NOT
Being clear about this matters as much as the role definition itself.
It is not a SOC analyst seat.
You are not sitting in a queue triaging alerts against someone else’s runbook. You help build and run the platform that the analysts depend on.
It is not a service desk or first-line support role.
You will talk to customers about technical matters, but the work is engineering, not ticket handling.
It is not a data science role.
We work with very large volumes of machine data, but the work is systems and operations engineering, not modelling or statistics. Python and dashboards are not the same thing as running a platform.
It is not a graduate scheme.
We paused our graduate hire to open this role instead, because we want someone who has already spent time in a production environment and knows what it feels like when something breaks at an awkward hour.
It is not a project role with a finish line.
Core has no end date. If what you enjoy is shipping a thing and walking away, you will find the continuous half of this job frustrating.
Who we are looking for
We are indifferent to whether your background is security or observability. Either one is a good starting point, and the interesting work at Apto sits where the two meet — the same telemetry usually has to serve both a security question and an operational one. What we need is depth in one and genuine curiosity about the other
Experience we’re looking for
Roughly eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role. We care much more about what you have actually done than about the number of months attached to it, and we know that at this stage most of what you have done was somebody else’s decision. That is fine. We are looking for the shape of it.
You have had your hands on a telemetry, SIEM, observability or monitoring platform that was running in production — not only in a course or a home lab. You have onboarded a data source, tuned an alert, applied an upgrade, or been the person who had to work out why the data stopped arriving.
You have carried something over time rather than only delivering a task and moving on — a set of alerts you looked after, a customer estate you knew well, an on-call rotation, a service that was yours to keep healthy.
You are comfortable in Linux, in at least one query language, and you have written scripts that did something useful. Python is what we mostly use; anything credible is a fine starting point.
You have automated or fixed something real and you can show it. A script, a repo, a before-and-after number, a description concrete enough for us to ask sensible questions about.
You can write. A clear runbook, a readable incident note, a straight message to a customer. This is a customer-facing role.
You have worked in at least one of our vendor families — Splunk, Cribl, Sentinel, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry — or a close analogue. The specific product is negotiable. Real exposure is not.
If you meet most of this and not all of it, apply anyway and tell us which parts you do not have. We would rather read an honest gap than a padded CV.
The platform work – why this is interesting
Most managed service jobs are the same job with a different logo on the ticketing system. This one is not, because we are building our own platform underneath the service and you will work on it. We have replaced a vendor-licensed telemetry backend with an open-source stack we run ourselves. A base platform (secret ;-)) On top of that sits multi-vendor collection — the pattern that lets us onboard a Splunk, a Cribl or a Sentinel customer without rebuilding it from scratch each time. Beyond that, the vendors are all shipping AI and agentic layers — MCP servers, agentic investigation, cross-vendor gateways — and we already have that work live with a customer. You will get early, hands-on exposure to it while most of the industry is still writing slide decks about it.
07/09/2026
Full time
Who this is for
An early-career engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. Security or observability background — either is welcome.
You have been working for eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role — a platform team, a SOC or security engineering team, an MSP or MSSP, an infrastructure or DevOps team, a vendor’s support or professional services desk — and you are looking for your first move. You have had your hands on something that runs in production and matters to somebody. You want to go deeper, faster, in a smaller business where the work you do is seen. This is not a graduate scheme and it is not a helpdesk. It is a real engineering seat with real customers, real supervision and a clear path up.
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. You will help run customer telemetry platforms day to day, improve them, and contribute to the platform that lets us run them well. You will do this as part of a small engineering pool, with a senior engineer checking your work before it reaches a customer and a line manager who is accountable for your development.
Operate has two shapes and you will work in both.
Operate Core is always-on. It is continuous ownership of a customer’s platform — health, ingestion, data quality, alerting, upgrades, capacity. There is no handover and no final deliverable. The platform is ours to keep healthy for as long as the customer is ours. Success is measured in the absence of surprises and in the platform being demonstrably better in six months than it is today.
Operate Attach is sprint-based improvement. A customer has a defined problem — noisy alerts, a data source that will not normalise, ingest costs running away, a detection gap, a migration — and we take a scoped block of work and fix it. Attach has a start, a shape and an end. It sits on top of Core, for the same customers, with the same engineers.
Alongside that you will take a share of professional services delivery: shorter, project-shaped engagements that are usually how a customer first meets us.
What You’ll do
Everything below is done with supervision at first and with increasing independence as you show you can carry it. We will be explicit with you about where that line is and how it moves.
Day-to-day health of customer platforms.
Ingestion pipelines, data quality, alerting, licensing and capacity, upgrades and patching. You will start by owning a slice of a named customer estate, and you will be expected to notice problems before the customer does.
Incident and problem work.
Triage, diagnosis and resolution — and then the harder part, which is the root cause and the permanent fix so it does not come back.
Content and configuration.
Detections, dashboards, parsers, normalisation, alert rules, pipeline routing — built properly, peer reviewed, version controlled, documented.
Attach sprints and PS work.
Taking a defined piece of a scoped improvement, delivering it, and being able to show what changed.
Automation.
If you do something manually three times, we expect you to want to automate the fourth. Most of our platform tooling started as an engineer being annoyed by something.
Documentation and runbooks.
Your own, to a standard, every time. Undocumented work is unfinished work.
What this role is NOT
Being clear about this matters as much as the role definition itself.
It is not a SOC analyst seat.
You are not sitting in a queue triaging alerts against someone else’s runbook. You help build and run the platform that the analysts depend on.
It is not a service desk or first-line support role.
You will talk to customers about technical matters, but the work is engineering, not ticket handling.
It is not a data science role.
We work with very large volumes of machine data, but the work is systems and operations engineering, not modelling or statistics. Python and dashboards are not the same thing as running a platform.
It is not a graduate scheme.
We paused our graduate hire to open this role instead, because we want someone who has already spent time in a production environment and knows what it feels like when something breaks at an awkward hour.
It is not a project role with a finish line.
Core has no end date. If what you enjoy is shipping a thing and walking away, you will find the continuous half of this job frustrating.
Who we are looking for
We are indifferent to whether your background is security or observability. Either one is a good starting point, and the interesting work at Apto sits where the two meet — the same telemetry usually has to serve both a security question and an operational one. What we need is depth in one and genuine curiosity about the other
Experience we’re looking for
Roughly eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role. We care much more about what you have actually done than about the number of months attached to it, and we know that at this stage most of what you have done was somebody else’s decision. That is fine. We are looking for the shape of it.
You have had your hands on a telemetry, SIEM, observability or monitoring platform that was running in production — not only in a course or a home lab. You have onboarded a data source, tuned an alert, applied an upgrade, or been the person who had to work out why the data stopped arriving.
You have carried something over time rather than only delivering a task and moving on — a set of alerts you looked after, a customer estate you knew well, an on-call rotation, a service that was yours to keep healthy.
You are comfortable in Linux, in at least one query language, and you have written scripts that did something useful. Python is what we mostly use; anything credible is a fine starting point.
You have automated or fixed something real and you can show it. A script, a repo, a before-and-after number, a description concrete enough for us to ask sensible questions about.
You can write. A clear runbook, a readable incident note, a straight message to a customer. This is a customer-facing role.
You have worked in at least one of our vendor families — Splunk, Cribl, Sentinel, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry — or a close analogue. The specific product is negotiable. Real exposure is not.
If you meet most of this and not all of it, apply anyway and tell us which parts you do not have. We would rather read an honest gap than a padded CV.
The platform work – why this is interesting
Most managed service jobs are the same job with a different logo on the ticketing system. This one is not, because we are building our own platform underneath the service and you will work on it. We have replaced a vendor-licensed telemetry backend with an open-source stack we run ourselves. A base platform (secret ;-)) On top of that sits multi-vendor collection — the pattern that lets us onboard a Splunk, a Cribl or a Sentinel customer without rebuilding it from scratch each time. Beyond that, the vendors are all shipping AI and agentic layers — MCP servers, agentic investigation, cross-vendor gateways — and we already have that work live with a customer. You will get early, hands-on exposure to it while most of the industry is still writing slide decks about it.
Python Developer - 7 months+ - (Apply online only)pd Inside IR35 DOE - 4 days on client site in Glasgow and 1 day remote We are seeking a highly skilled Python Developer to work with an Investment Bank in Glasgow. You will focus on building and maintaining automated solutions for end-to-end (E2E) flows, ensuring robust deployment and operational excellence across our engineering landscape. Experience & Skills Required Strong software engineering background with excellent hands-on Python development experience. Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-quality applications and services. Practical expertise with automation technologies such as Playwright and/or Selenium. Experience building and maintaining reusable automation frameworks and tooling. Good understanding of API-driven architectures, microservices and distributed systems. Exposure to cloud-native development and containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes). Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices. Strong understanding of software design principles, code quality, testing strategies and engineering best practices. Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across application, infrastructure, and automation layers. Experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional engineering teams. Python Developer - 7 months+ - (Apply online only)pd Inside IR35 DOE - 4 days on client site in Glasgow and 1 day remote This temporary contract is inside IR35 and will require working under the direction of the client delivery manager as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will follow established delivery processes and working practices Damia Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept our Data Protection Policy which can be found on our website. Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job. Should the role require the successful candidate to undergo and be eligible for UK Security Vetting. Clearance sponsorship will be provided where required. Due to the nature of the work, candidates should meet the relevant residency requirements. If applicable, Reserved Post nationality restrictions will be confirmed by the client. Damia is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. Damia Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy and in accordance to Conduct Regulations 2003.
22/09/2026
Contractor
Python Developer - 7 months+ - (Apply online only)pd Inside IR35 DOE - 4 days on client site in Glasgow and 1 day remote We are seeking a highly skilled Python Developer to work with an Investment Bank in Glasgow. You will focus on building and maintaining automated solutions for end-to-end (E2E) flows, ensuring robust deployment and operational excellence across our engineering landscape. Experience & Skills Required Strong software engineering background with excellent hands-on Python development experience. Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-quality applications and services. Practical expertise with automation technologies such as Playwright and/or Selenium. Experience building and maintaining reusable automation frameworks and tooling. Good understanding of API-driven architectures, microservices and distributed systems. Exposure to cloud-native development and containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes). Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices. Strong understanding of software design principles, code quality, testing strategies and engineering best practices. Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across application, infrastructure, and automation layers. Experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional engineering teams. Python Developer - 7 months+ - (Apply online only)pd Inside IR35 DOE - 4 days on client site in Glasgow and 1 day remote This temporary contract is inside IR35 and will require working under the direction of the client delivery manager as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will follow established delivery processes and working practices Damia Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept our Data Protection Policy which can be found on our website. Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job. Should the role require the successful candidate to undergo and be eligible for UK Security Vetting. Clearance sponsorship will be provided where required. Due to the nature of the work, candidates should meet the relevant residency requirements. If applicable, Reserved Post nationality restrictions will be confirmed by the client. Damia is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. Damia Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy and in accordance to Conduct Regulations 2003.
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Romsey, Hampshire
IT Project Manager Hampshire / Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite Up to 65,000 per annum + benefits package Active SC clearance The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced, delivery-focused Project Manager to join a high-performing Defence and Technology organisation, delivering complex engineering, technology, product development and research projects . This is a hands-on project delivery role for someone who can demonstrate a proven track record of taking projects from planning through to successful delivery . You'll work closely with multidisciplinary technical teams, customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders, taking ownership of project performance across time, cost, quality, risk and delivery . What You'll Be Doing Take ownership of the planning and delivery of projects from initiation through to completion. Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones and resource plans. Drive delivery against agreed cost, time, quality and performance objectives . Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams. Monitor project progress and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies and changes. Manage project resources and ensure effective team utilisation. Build strong working relationships with customers, subcontractors, partners and internal stakeholders. Lead project meetings, ensuring actions and decisions are clearly captured and followed through. Maintain accurate project documentation, reporting and governance. Monitor project expenditure and support effective financial management. Identify and manage project risks and opportunities, escalating where appropriate. Support procurement activities and supplier relationships. Ensure project deliverables meet required quality and governance standards. Contribute to the continuous improvement of project delivery processes and methodologies. About You We're looking for a Project Manager who can demonstrate real-world project delivery experience , rather than purely project coordination or project administration. You should be able to clearly demonstrate: Projects you have personally managed or played a significant role in delivering. What was delivered - for example, a product, software solution, technical study, engineering project, research programme or consultancy deliverable. Your specific responsibilities and contribution to the delivery. How you managed time, cost, quality, resources, risks and stakeholders . The outcomes and successes achieved. You'll ideally have: Proven experience managing projects within engineering, technology, product development, R&D, research or consultancy environments. Experience delivering projects with clear and measurable outcomes. Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams. Strong stakeholder and customer management skills. Excellent planning, organisation and communication skills. Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies and budgets. A relevant degree and/or equivalent professional experience. A recognised project management qualification such as APM, PMI or PRINCE2 , or equivalent experience. The Right Profile This role would suit an experienced Project Manager who enjoys working in technically complex environments and has a strong focus on delivery. We're particularly interested in candidates who have worked on products, product development, engineering, software, research or technical consultancy projects and can clearly articulate what they have delivered. If this Project Manager role is of interest, apply now or email your CV to me at (url removed)
22/09/2026
Full time
IT Project Manager Hampshire / Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite Up to 65,000 per annum + benefits package Active SC clearance The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced, delivery-focused Project Manager to join a high-performing Defence and Technology organisation, delivering complex engineering, technology, product development and research projects . This is a hands-on project delivery role for someone who can demonstrate a proven track record of taking projects from planning through to successful delivery . You'll work closely with multidisciplinary technical teams, customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders, taking ownership of project performance across time, cost, quality, risk and delivery . What You'll Be Doing Take ownership of the planning and delivery of projects from initiation through to completion. Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones and resource plans. Drive delivery against agreed cost, time, quality and performance objectives . Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams. Monitor project progress and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies and changes. Manage project resources and ensure effective team utilisation. Build strong working relationships with customers, subcontractors, partners and internal stakeholders. Lead project meetings, ensuring actions and decisions are clearly captured and followed through. Maintain accurate project documentation, reporting and governance. Monitor project expenditure and support effective financial management. Identify and manage project risks and opportunities, escalating where appropriate. Support procurement activities and supplier relationships. Ensure project deliverables meet required quality and governance standards. Contribute to the continuous improvement of project delivery processes and methodologies. About You We're looking for a Project Manager who can demonstrate real-world project delivery experience , rather than purely project coordination or project administration. You should be able to clearly demonstrate: Projects you have personally managed or played a significant role in delivering. What was delivered - for example, a product, software solution, technical study, engineering project, research programme or consultancy deliverable. Your specific responsibilities and contribution to the delivery. How you managed time, cost, quality, resources, risks and stakeholders . The outcomes and successes achieved. You'll ideally have: Proven experience managing projects within engineering, technology, product development, R&D, research or consultancy environments. Experience delivering projects with clear and measurable outcomes. Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams. Strong stakeholder and customer management skills. Excellent planning, organisation and communication skills. Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies and budgets. A relevant degree and/or equivalent professional experience. A recognised project management qualification such as APM, PMI or PRINCE2 , or equivalent experience. The Right Profile This role would suit an experienced Project Manager who enjoys working in technically complex environments and has a strong focus on delivery. We're particularly interested in candidates who have worked on products, product development, engineering, software, research or technical consultancy projects and can clearly articulate what they have delivered. If this Project Manager role is of interest, apply now or email your CV to me at (url removed)
About Acacia Acacia Green Technologies develops and delivers connected technology for hotels and other complex buildings. Our work brings together hospitality television and guest experience platforms, IoT sensors, energy and environmental monitoring, building controls, systems integration and data-led services. We operate in a practical, fast-moving environment where software must work reliably with real properties, devices, partners and customer operations. The role We are looking for a full stack engineer whose main strength is backend development. You will take primary responsibility for Node.js and JavaScript services, PostgreSQL data models, REST APIs and a growing microservices estate, while contributing to React.js interfaces when a feature requires end-to-end ownership. The role sits close to live hotel deployments, IoT devices and the people who use our products. Role mission Build maintainable, secure and observable software that turns device data and operational requirements into dependable hospitality products. Key responsibilities Design, build and maintain backend services using Node.js and JavaScript (TypeScript is a plus), with clear boundaries, robust error handling and production-ready documentation. Own PostgreSQL schema design, SQL queries, migrations, data integrity and performance for operational and time-sensitive product workloads. Develop well-structured REST APIs and event-driven integrations between Acacia applications, hotel systems, sensors, gateways and third-party platforms. Evolve our microservices architecture pragmatically, balancing service independence with operational simplicity and reliable data flows. Integrate IoT devices and building systems using MQTT, Modbus or Modbus TCP, HTTPS, JSON and vendor APIs; diagnose failures across software, network and device boundaries. Contribute to React.js frontends using JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS and appropriate state management when delivering complete product features. Containerise and deploy services using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm; support CI/CD pipelines, container registries and environment configuration. Create unit, integration, API and end-to-end tests using tools such as Jest, Playwright and Postman; make testing part of delivery rather than a final step. Use AI-assisted development tools, including the Claude extension, to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation and technical problem-solving while maintaining code quality and engineering standards. Use Git and GitHub effectively through branches, pull requests, code reviews and GitHub Actions. Investigate live issues methodically, communicate impact clearly and carry fixes through validation and release. Work with the Product Manager and commercial team to translate customer and market needs into technical scope, estimates and delivery plans. Improve engineering standards through clear documentation, reusable patterns, technical review and constructive support for colleagues. Essential experience and capability Strong commercial experience with Node.js and JavaScript (TypeScript is a plus) in production systems. Confident PostgreSQL and SQL capability, including relational modelling, migrations, query optimisation and data troubleshooting. Practical experience designing REST APIs and services within a microservices or distributed architecture. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD delivery workflows. Sound testing discipline across unit, integration, API and end-to-end levels. Working knowledge of React.js and modern browser technologies sufficient to deliver or diagnose end-to-end features. Strong debugging, communication and documentation skills; comfortable working from incomplete real-world evidence. Useful additional experience IoT, sensor, building controls or industrial integration experience, particularly MQTT or Modbus TCP. Event-driven and real-time systems, including WebSocket-based communication. Python, SQLite, Grafana, Swagger or OpenAPI, Figma, Lucidchart or Whimsical. Hospitality technology, hotel operations, energy management or smart-building products. Experience of AI-assisted engineering tools used with appropriate review and security controls. How you will work Take ownership without losing sight of the customer outcome. Prefer clear, supportable engineering over unnecessary complexity. Listen carefully, challenge constructively and explain technical choices in plain language. Remain calm and systematic when diagnosing live-site issues. Learn quickly and build on previous work rather than repeatedly starting again. Working at Acacia This is a hands-on role in a growing business. Priorities can move quickly as customer deployments, product development and partner opportunities evolve. You will be trusted to exercise judgement, communicate clearly and take ownership through to a practical result. Some travel to customer, supplier or project sites may be required. Equal opportunity Acacia Green Technologies welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. Appointment will be based on capability, experience and alignment with the requirements of the role.
22/09/2026
Full time
About Acacia Acacia Green Technologies develops and delivers connected technology for hotels and other complex buildings. Our work brings together hospitality television and guest experience platforms, IoT sensors, energy and environmental monitoring, building controls, systems integration and data-led services. We operate in a practical, fast-moving environment where software must work reliably with real properties, devices, partners and customer operations. The role We are looking for a full stack engineer whose main strength is backend development. You will take primary responsibility for Node.js and JavaScript services, PostgreSQL data models, REST APIs and a growing microservices estate, while contributing to React.js interfaces when a feature requires end-to-end ownership. The role sits close to live hotel deployments, IoT devices and the people who use our products. Role mission Build maintainable, secure and observable software that turns device data and operational requirements into dependable hospitality products. Key responsibilities Design, build and maintain backend services using Node.js and JavaScript (TypeScript is a plus), with clear boundaries, robust error handling and production-ready documentation. Own PostgreSQL schema design, SQL queries, migrations, data integrity and performance for operational and time-sensitive product workloads. Develop well-structured REST APIs and event-driven integrations between Acacia applications, hotel systems, sensors, gateways and third-party platforms. Evolve our microservices architecture pragmatically, balancing service independence with operational simplicity and reliable data flows. Integrate IoT devices and building systems using MQTT, Modbus or Modbus TCP, HTTPS, JSON and vendor APIs; diagnose failures across software, network and device boundaries. Contribute to React.js frontends using JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS and appropriate state management when delivering complete product features. Containerise and deploy services using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm; support CI/CD pipelines, container registries and environment configuration. Create unit, integration, API and end-to-end tests using tools such as Jest, Playwright and Postman; make testing part of delivery rather than a final step. Use AI-assisted development tools, including the Claude extension, to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation and technical problem-solving while maintaining code quality and engineering standards. Use Git and GitHub effectively through branches, pull requests, code reviews and GitHub Actions. Investigate live issues methodically, communicate impact clearly and carry fixes through validation and release. Work with the Product Manager and commercial team to translate customer and market needs into technical scope, estimates and delivery plans. Improve engineering standards through clear documentation, reusable patterns, technical review and constructive support for colleagues. Essential experience and capability Strong commercial experience with Node.js and JavaScript (TypeScript is a plus) in production systems. Confident PostgreSQL and SQL capability, including relational modelling, migrations, query optimisation and data troubleshooting. Practical experience designing REST APIs and services within a microservices or distributed architecture. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD delivery workflows. Sound testing discipline across unit, integration, API and end-to-end levels. Working knowledge of React.js and modern browser technologies sufficient to deliver or diagnose end-to-end features. Strong debugging, communication and documentation skills; comfortable working from incomplete real-world evidence. Useful additional experience IoT, sensor, building controls or industrial integration experience, particularly MQTT or Modbus TCP. Event-driven and real-time systems, including WebSocket-based communication. Python, SQLite, Grafana, Swagger or OpenAPI, Figma, Lucidchart or Whimsical. Hospitality technology, hotel operations, energy management or smart-building products. Experience of AI-assisted engineering tools used with appropriate review and security controls. How you will work Take ownership without losing sight of the customer outcome. Prefer clear, supportable engineering over unnecessary complexity. Listen carefully, challenge constructively and explain technical choices in plain language. Remain calm and systematic when diagnosing live-site issues. Learn quickly and build on previous work rather than repeatedly starting again. Working at Acacia This is a hands-on role in a growing business. Priorities can move quickly as customer deployments, product development and partner opportunities evolve. You will be trusted to exercise judgement, communicate clearly and take ownership through to a practical result. Some travel to customer, supplier or project sites may be required. Equal opportunity Acacia Green Technologies welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. Appointment will be based on capability, experience and alignment with the requirements of the role.
Fancy working with an established, growth-stage UK Software product company (B2B SaaS), who are building their own payroll system from the ground up? If so, we are looking for a Payroll systems experienced Product Manager / Owner to take the lead! The build is well advanced, but it needs someone with genuine product discipline and deep payroll expertise to finalise the spec, close the gaps and get it ready for customers to use. This is a newly created role, and you would be the first person to bring professional product ownership to it. Location : Birmingham area office, mostly remote with occasional time required in the office (So will consider people form across the UK, in general) Very flexible location wise though. Salary: £65,000 to £75,000 basic, plus benefits package. What you'll be doing Own the payroll product end to end: requirements baseline, backlog, roadmap and release plan Work day to day with engineering and the internal payroll team, testing changes yourself where needed Act as the go-to payroll authority for the teams, from a Product point of view. Shape the long-term payroll product strategy & roadmap. What you need to bring Deep, current UK payroll knowledge - PAYE, NIC, RTI, statutory payments, pensions and auto-enrolment Demonstrable product management experience in software: discovery, requirements, backlog ownership and shipping releases Experience moving payrolls between systems, including data migration, parallel running and reconciliation would be ideal. Strong written communication - comfortable producing specifications others can act on without you in the room Desirable: high-volume hourly-paid workforce exposure, and/or CIPP qualification Why you'll love this job Genuine ownership - you're the first person in this seat, shaping the product from spec through to market leadership A rare, genuinely differentiated proposition: workforce management and payroll combined natively in one system A small, direct team backed by equity investment, where decisions move fast and the person who owns a product really owns it If you combine real payroll depth with strong product craft and want to build something new , we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to find out more about this exclusive opportunity.
22/09/2026
Full time
Fancy working with an established, growth-stage UK Software product company (B2B SaaS), who are building their own payroll system from the ground up? If so, we are looking for a Payroll systems experienced Product Manager / Owner to take the lead! The build is well advanced, but it needs someone with genuine product discipline and deep payroll expertise to finalise the spec, close the gaps and get it ready for customers to use. This is a newly created role, and you would be the first person to bring professional product ownership to it. Location : Birmingham area office, mostly remote with occasional time required in the office (So will consider people form across the UK, in general) Very flexible location wise though. Salary: £65,000 to £75,000 basic, plus benefits package. What you'll be doing Own the payroll product end to end: requirements baseline, backlog, roadmap and release plan Work day to day with engineering and the internal payroll team, testing changes yourself where needed Act as the go-to payroll authority for the teams, from a Product point of view. Shape the long-term payroll product strategy & roadmap. What you need to bring Deep, current UK payroll knowledge - PAYE, NIC, RTI, statutory payments, pensions and auto-enrolment Demonstrable product management experience in software: discovery, requirements, backlog ownership and shipping releases Experience moving payrolls between systems, including data migration, parallel running and reconciliation would be ideal. Strong written communication - comfortable producing specifications others can act on without you in the room Desirable: high-volume hourly-paid workforce exposure, and/or CIPP qualification Why you'll love this job Genuine ownership - you're the first person in this seat, shaping the product from spec through to market leadership A rare, genuinely differentiated proposition: workforce management and payroll combined natively in one system A small, direct team backed by equity investment, where decisions move fast and the person who owns a product really owns it If you combine real payroll depth with strong product craft and want to build something new , we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to find out more about this exclusive opportunity.
Role Title: Cloud Security Engineer Duration: contract to run until 30/11/2026 Location: Knutsford. Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite Rate: up to 630.20 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Role purpose / summary We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Security Cloud Engineer to play a critical role in the design, implementation, automation, and security of our multi-cloud infrastructure. This position is ideal for a cloud professional with a strong security mindset who is passionate about protecting cloud-native environments, driving automation, and supporting secure digital transformation initiatives. As a Security Cloud Engineer, you will help shape the future of our cloud security capability by developing and enhancing secure cloud platforms across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Working closely with engineering, security, DevOps, and operational teams, you will contribute to cloud architecture designs, automate security remediation processes, and provide proactive insights into cloud risks, vulnerabilities, and threat mitigation strategies. You will leverage your expertise in cloud security, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and governance frameworks to ensure that cloud services are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with organisational standards. This role requires a hands-on approach and the ability to translate high-level and low-level designs into practical, secure, and operationally effective solutions. Key Responsibilities Drive continuous improvements and enhancements to cloud infrastructure in alignment with business strategy, budget, and security objectives. Design, build, and maintain secure cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Collaborate with engineering and DevOps teams to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available cloud services. Support business stakeholders in adopting modern cloud-native architectures and security best practices. Develop and implement automation for security monitoring, incident response, remediation, and operational processes. Ensure cloud platforms comply with organisational security standards, governance requirements, and software development lifecycle practices. Identify, assess, and mitigate cloud security risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps. Contribute to cloud architecture reviews, security assessments, and threat modelling activities. Work with security tooling and SIEM platforms to improve visibility, detection, and response capabilities. Support incident, problem, and change management processes while maintaining operational excellence. Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to standardise and automate cloud deployments. Partner with development teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes. Monitor cloud environments and provide recommendations for optimisation, security posture improvement, and operational efficiency. Technical Skills & Experience Essential Requirements Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, or similar role. Professional cloud certifications in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Experience translating High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) into secure technical solutions. Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, and/or Java. Experience working within Agile and Scrum delivery environments. Expert knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices. Strong understanding of cloud security controls, security frameworks, and compliance requirements. Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms and cloud security tooling. Experience with incident, problem, and change management processes. Working knowledge of Wiz Cloud and Wiz Defend security platforms. Strong containerisation experience, including Docker and Kubernetes. Experience administering and securing both Windows and Red Hat Linux environments. Experience implementing operational automation using Chef or similar configuration management tools. AWS Security Expertise Experience creating and managing CloudFormation templates for infrastructure deployment. Strong understanding of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), security policies, security groups, and Key Management Service (KMS). Hands-on experience with AWS networking technologies including VPCs, subnets, routing, and load balancing. Experience securing and supporting ECS, EKS, and AWS Lambda workloads. Knowledge of CloudWatch and CloudTrail for monitoring, logging, and auditing activities. Azure Security Expertise Experience developing ARM templates and Bicep scripts for infrastructure automation. Strong understanding of Azure Resource Manager, Azure Policy, and Azure Blueprints governance frameworks. Experience implementing and managing Azure Active Directory, Managed Identities, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and release management. Knowledge of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and compliance monitoring tools. Understanding of Azure networking services, including Virtual Networks (VNETs), Network Security Groups (NSGs), Application Gateway, and Azure Firewall. GCP Security Expertise Experience creating infrastructure automation through Deployment Manager and/or Terraform. Knowledge of GCP IAM, Service Accounts, and Organisation Policies. Experience with Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and Cloud Deploy services. Understanding of GCP networking, including VPCs, firewall rules, and cloud load balancing. Experience with Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Security Command Center. Familiarity with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and cloud-native container orchestration. What Success Looks Like The successful candidate will demonstrate a proactive and security-first approach to cloud engineering, enabling the organisation to maintain a robust, scalable, and compliant cloud ecosystem. You will be instrumental in improving cloud security posture, driving automation, reducing operational risk, and supporting the delivery of innovative cloud solutions that align with business objectives. Desirable Qualifications & Experience Previous experience working within a financial services or other highly regulated environment. Bachelor's degree or higher qualification in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, or a related discipline. CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification. Additional cloud security certifications such as AWS Security Specialty, Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect, or Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer. All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply! If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
22/09/2026
Contractor
Role Title: Cloud Security Engineer Duration: contract to run until 30/11/2026 Location: Knutsford. Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite Rate: up to 630.20 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Role purpose / summary We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Security Cloud Engineer to play a critical role in the design, implementation, automation, and security of our multi-cloud infrastructure. This position is ideal for a cloud professional with a strong security mindset who is passionate about protecting cloud-native environments, driving automation, and supporting secure digital transformation initiatives. As a Security Cloud Engineer, you will help shape the future of our cloud security capability by developing and enhancing secure cloud platforms across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Working closely with engineering, security, DevOps, and operational teams, you will contribute to cloud architecture designs, automate security remediation processes, and provide proactive insights into cloud risks, vulnerabilities, and threat mitigation strategies. You will leverage your expertise in cloud security, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and governance frameworks to ensure that cloud services are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with organisational standards. This role requires a hands-on approach and the ability to translate high-level and low-level designs into practical, secure, and operationally effective solutions. Key Responsibilities Drive continuous improvements and enhancements to cloud infrastructure in alignment with business strategy, budget, and security objectives. Design, build, and maintain secure cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Collaborate with engineering and DevOps teams to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available cloud services. Support business stakeholders in adopting modern cloud-native architectures and security best practices. Develop and implement automation for security monitoring, incident response, remediation, and operational processes. Ensure cloud platforms comply with organisational security standards, governance requirements, and software development lifecycle practices. Identify, assess, and mitigate cloud security risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps. Contribute to cloud architecture reviews, security assessments, and threat modelling activities. Work with security tooling and SIEM platforms to improve visibility, detection, and response capabilities. Support incident, problem, and change management processes while maintaining operational excellence. Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to standardise and automate cloud deployments. Partner with development teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes. Monitor cloud environments and provide recommendations for optimisation, security posture improvement, and operational efficiency. Technical Skills & Experience Essential Requirements Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, or similar role. Professional cloud certifications in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Experience translating High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) into secure technical solutions. Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, and/or Java. Experience working within Agile and Scrum delivery environments. Expert knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices. Strong understanding of cloud security controls, security frameworks, and compliance requirements. Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms and cloud security tooling. Experience with incident, problem, and change management processes. Working knowledge of Wiz Cloud and Wiz Defend security platforms. Strong containerisation experience, including Docker and Kubernetes. Experience administering and securing both Windows and Red Hat Linux environments. Experience implementing operational automation using Chef or similar configuration management tools. AWS Security Expertise Experience creating and managing CloudFormation templates for infrastructure deployment. Strong understanding of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), security policies, security groups, and Key Management Service (KMS). Hands-on experience with AWS networking technologies including VPCs, subnets, routing, and load balancing. Experience securing and supporting ECS, EKS, and AWS Lambda workloads. Knowledge of CloudWatch and CloudTrail for monitoring, logging, and auditing activities. Azure Security Expertise Experience developing ARM templates and Bicep scripts for infrastructure automation. Strong understanding of Azure Resource Manager, Azure Policy, and Azure Blueprints governance frameworks. Experience implementing and managing Azure Active Directory, Managed Identities, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and release management. Knowledge of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and compliance monitoring tools. Understanding of Azure networking services, including Virtual Networks (VNETs), Network Security Groups (NSGs), Application Gateway, and Azure Firewall. GCP Security Expertise Experience creating infrastructure automation through Deployment Manager and/or Terraform. Knowledge of GCP IAM, Service Accounts, and Organisation Policies. Experience with Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and Cloud Deploy services. Understanding of GCP networking, including VPCs, firewall rules, and cloud load balancing. Experience with Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Security Command Center. Familiarity with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and cloud-native container orchestration. What Success Looks Like The successful candidate will demonstrate a proactive and security-first approach to cloud engineering, enabling the organisation to maintain a robust, scalable, and compliant cloud ecosystem. You will be instrumental in improving cloud security posture, driving automation, reducing operational risk, and supporting the delivery of innovative cloud solutions that align with business objectives. Desirable Qualifications & Experience Previous experience working within a financial services or other highly regulated environment. Bachelor's degree or higher qualification in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, or a related discipline. CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification. Additional cloud security certifications such as AWS Security Specialty, Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect, or Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer. All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply! If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
Fancy working with an established, growth-stage UK Software product company (B2B SaaS), who are building their own payroll system from the ground up? If so, we are looking for a Payroll systems experienced Product Manager / Owner to take the lead! The build is well advanced, but it needs someone with genuine product discipline and deep payroll expertise to finalise the spec, close the gaps and get it ready for customers to use. This is a newly created role, and you would be the first person to bring professional product ownership to it. Location : Birmingham area office, mostly remote with occasional time required in the office. Very flexible location wise though. Salary: £65,000 to £75,000 basic, plus benefits package. What you'll be doing Own the payroll product end to end: requirements baseline, backlog, roadmap and release plan Work day to day with engineering and the internal payroll team, testing changes yourself where needed Act as the go-to payroll authority for the teams, from a Product point of view. Shape the long-term payroll product strategy & roadmap. What you need to bring Deep, current UK payroll knowledge - PAYE, NIC, RTI, statutory payments, pensions and auto-enrolment Demonstrable product management experience in software: discovery, requirements, backlog ownership and shipping releases Experience moving payrolls between systems, including data migration, parallel running and reconciliation would be ideal. Strong written communication - comfortable producing specifications others can act on without you in the room Desirable: high-volume hourly-paid workforce exposure, and/or CIPP qualification Why you'll love this job Genuine ownership - you're the first person in this seat, shaping the product from spec through to market leadership A rare, genuinely differentiated proposition: workforce management and payroll combined natively in one system A small, direct team backed by equity investment, where decisions move fast and the person who owns a product really owns it If you combine real payroll depth with strong product craft and want to build something new , we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to find out more about this exclusive opportunity.
22/09/2026
Full time
Fancy working with an established, growth-stage UK Software product company (B2B SaaS), who are building their own payroll system from the ground up? If so, we are looking for a Payroll systems experienced Product Manager / Owner to take the lead! The build is well advanced, but it needs someone with genuine product discipline and deep payroll expertise to finalise the spec, close the gaps and get it ready for customers to use. This is a newly created role, and you would be the first person to bring professional product ownership to it. Location : Birmingham area office, mostly remote with occasional time required in the office. Very flexible location wise though. Salary: £65,000 to £75,000 basic, plus benefits package. What you'll be doing Own the payroll product end to end: requirements baseline, backlog, roadmap and release plan Work day to day with engineering and the internal payroll team, testing changes yourself where needed Act as the go-to payroll authority for the teams, from a Product point of view. Shape the long-term payroll product strategy & roadmap. What you need to bring Deep, current UK payroll knowledge - PAYE, NIC, RTI, statutory payments, pensions and auto-enrolment Demonstrable product management experience in software: discovery, requirements, backlog ownership and shipping releases Experience moving payrolls between systems, including data migration, parallel running and reconciliation would be ideal. Strong written communication - comfortable producing specifications others can act on without you in the room Desirable: high-volume hourly-paid workforce exposure, and/or CIPP qualification Why you'll love this job Genuine ownership - you're the first person in this seat, shaping the product from spec through to market leadership A rare, genuinely differentiated proposition: workforce management and payroll combined natively in one system A small, direct team backed by equity investment, where decisions move fast and the person who owns a product really owns it If you combine real payroll depth with strong product craft and want to build something new , we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to find out more about this exclusive opportunity.
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a talented team developing cutting-edge software solutions. This is an exciting opportunity for a technical leader who is passionate about building high-performing engineering teams while remaining closely involved in the delivery of innovative software. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping engineering practices, guiding technical direction, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software projects from concept through to release. The Role As Software Engineering Manager, you'll provide both technical and people leadership, helping to drive engineering excellence across our software development teams. Your responsibilities will include: Leading, mentoring and developing a team of highly skilled software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture. Defining and evolving software engineering standards, development practices, and design approaches to support continuous improvement. Providing technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, from initial architecture and design through to implementation, verification, and release. Working alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver key project milestones on time and to a high standard. Overseeing the implementation and optimisation of wireless communication software across a range of heterogeneous computing platforms. Acting as a technical point of contact for customers, providing project updates, gathering requirements, and resolving technical challenges. Supporting career development, coaching and knowledge sharing to help engineers reach their full potential. We're looking for someone with: Proven experience leading successful software engineering teams. Extensive knowledge of embedded software development for performance-critical or high-throughput applications. A strong track record of designing, developing, and validating embedded or high-performance computing software. The ability to translate complex technical ideas into clear development plans and deliverable outcomes. Experience working with CI/CD practices, software planning tools, and agile development workflows. A relevant degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent commercial experience. An understanding of wireless communications principles, or the enthusiasm and aptitude to develop expertise in this area. Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
22/09/2026
Full time
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a talented team developing cutting-edge software solutions. This is an exciting opportunity for a technical leader who is passionate about building high-performing engineering teams while remaining closely involved in the delivery of innovative software. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping engineering practices, guiding technical direction, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software projects from concept through to release. The Role As Software Engineering Manager, you'll provide both technical and people leadership, helping to drive engineering excellence across our software development teams. Your responsibilities will include: Leading, mentoring and developing a team of highly skilled software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture. Defining and evolving software engineering standards, development practices, and design approaches to support continuous improvement. Providing technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, from initial architecture and design through to implementation, verification, and release. Working alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver key project milestones on time and to a high standard. Overseeing the implementation and optimisation of wireless communication software across a range of heterogeneous computing platforms. Acting as a technical point of contact for customers, providing project updates, gathering requirements, and resolving technical challenges. Supporting career development, coaching and knowledge sharing to help engineers reach their full potential. We're looking for someone with: Proven experience leading successful software engineering teams. Extensive knowledge of embedded software development for performance-critical or high-throughput applications. A strong track record of designing, developing, and validating embedded or high-performance computing software. The ability to translate complex technical ideas into clear development plans and deliverable outcomes. Experience working with CI/CD practices, software planning tools, and agile development workflows. A relevant degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent commercial experience. An understanding of wireless communications principles, or the enthusiasm and aptitude to develop expertise in this area. Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Embedded Software Engineering Manager to lead and develop a highly skilled software engineering team responsible for the development of embedded software for advanced control and drive systems . This is a senior engineering leadership position offering significant influence over the direction, capability and delivery of the software function. You will manage a team of approximately 5-15 engineers , combining people leadership with technical oversight, engineering strategy and delivery responsibility. The software forms an integral part of complex electromechanical equipment used within demanding scientific, industrial and semiconductor environments , making this an ideal opportunity for someone accustomed to developing embedded software for physical products and control systems. Key Responsibilities As Embedded Software Engineering Manager, you will: Lead, manage and develop a team of approximately 5-15 embedded software engineers . Take responsibility for the development and delivery of embedded software and HMI solutions across a range of technically complex products. Provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through development, integration, verification and release . Define and continuously improve the engineering approach to hardware and software integration . Establish robust software engineering standards, processes and development practices. Work closely with electronics, hardware, systems, test, manufacturing and project engineering teams to ensure successful product delivery. Support the development of software used within control systems, drive technology and complex electromechanical equipment . Manage software engineering resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities, technical requirements and delivery timescales. Identify capability and skills gaps within the department and develop the team to support current and future programmes. Coach and mentor engineers, creating an environment that encourages technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement . Contribute to technical reviews, risk assessments and engineering decision-making. Ensure development activities meet relevant quality, regulatory and safety requirements . Manage relationships with internal stakeholders, suppliers and external technical partners where required. Support resource planning, budgeting, supplier management and engineering forecasting . Help shape the future structure and capability of the software engineering function as requirements evolve. What We're Looking For We are looking for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong embedded software knowledge with the ability to lead and develop technical teams. Ideally, you will have: A strong technical background in embedded software or firmware development . Proven experience managing or leading software engineering teams . Experience working with software embedded within physical, electromechanical products . A strong understanding of hardware/software integration . Experience with control systems, drives, motors, instrumentation, industrial equipment or similar technologies . Knowledge of structured software development lifecycles and modern engineering practices. Experience working collaboratively with electronics, hardware, systems, test and manufacturing engineering disciplines. Experience delivering technically complex software projects from initial requirements through to production. Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, performance management and capability development . Experience with resource and project planning , including prioritising engineering activities across multiple programmes. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. An understanding of technical risk management, quality processes and engineering governance. Experience improving engineering processes and leading teams through technical or organisational change. The Ideal Background This role would particularly suit someone who has worked within sectors such as: Industrial automation Motion and motor control Semiconductor equipment Scientific instrumentation Robotics Advanced manufacturing equipment Automotive or mobility systems Aerospace or defence electronics Complex electromechanical product development You may currently be working as an Embedded Software Engineering Manager, Software Development Manager, Embedded Software Manager, Firmware Manager, Software Team Lead or Head of Embedded Software . To find out more about Computer Futures please visit (url removed) Computer Futures, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy Registered office 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom Partnership Number OC(phone number removed) England and Wales
22/09/2026
Full time
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Embedded Software Engineering Manager to lead and develop a highly skilled software engineering team responsible for the development of embedded software for advanced control and drive systems . This is a senior engineering leadership position offering significant influence over the direction, capability and delivery of the software function. You will manage a team of approximately 5-15 engineers , combining people leadership with technical oversight, engineering strategy and delivery responsibility. The software forms an integral part of complex electromechanical equipment used within demanding scientific, industrial and semiconductor environments , making this an ideal opportunity for someone accustomed to developing embedded software for physical products and control systems. Key Responsibilities As Embedded Software Engineering Manager, you will: Lead, manage and develop a team of approximately 5-15 embedded software engineers . Take responsibility for the development and delivery of embedded software and HMI solutions across a range of technically complex products. Provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through development, integration, verification and release . Define and continuously improve the engineering approach to hardware and software integration . Establish robust software engineering standards, processes and development practices. Work closely with electronics, hardware, systems, test, manufacturing and project engineering teams to ensure successful product delivery. Support the development of software used within control systems, drive technology and complex electromechanical equipment . Manage software engineering resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities, technical requirements and delivery timescales. Identify capability and skills gaps within the department and develop the team to support current and future programmes. Coach and mentor engineers, creating an environment that encourages technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement . Contribute to technical reviews, risk assessments and engineering decision-making. Ensure development activities meet relevant quality, regulatory and safety requirements . Manage relationships with internal stakeholders, suppliers and external technical partners where required. Support resource planning, budgeting, supplier management and engineering forecasting . Help shape the future structure and capability of the software engineering function as requirements evolve. What We're Looking For We are looking for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong embedded software knowledge with the ability to lead and develop technical teams. Ideally, you will have: A strong technical background in embedded software or firmware development . Proven experience managing or leading software engineering teams . Experience working with software embedded within physical, electromechanical products . A strong understanding of hardware/software integration . Experience with control systems, drives, motors, instrumentation, industrial equipment or similar technologies . Knowledge of structured software development lifecycles and modern engineering practices. Experience working collaboratively with electronics, hardware, systems, test and manufacturing engineering disciplines. Experience delivering technically complex software projects from initial requirements through to production. Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, performance management and capability development . Experience with resource and project planning , including prioritising engineering activities across multiple programmes. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. An understanding of technical risk management, quality processes and engineering governance. Experience improving engineering processes and leading teams through technical or organisational change. The Ideal Background This role would particularly suit someone who has worked within sectors such as: Industrial automation Motion and motor control Semiconductor equipment Scientific instrumentation Robotics Advanced manufacturing equipment Automotive or mobility systems Aerospace or defence electronics Complex electromechanical product development You may currently be working as an Embedded Software Engineering Manager, Software Development Manager, Embedded Software Manager, Firmware Manager, Software Team Lead or Head of Embedded Software . To find out more about Computer Futures please visit (url removed) Computer Futures, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy Registered office 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom Partnership Number OC(phone number removed) England and Wales
Support and administration of the AutoSys Workload Automation platform used to manage DWP batch scheduling services. The engineer will provide operational support, incident resolution, platform maintenance and participation in the out-of-hours on-call rota to maintain service availability. Maintain operational support for the AutoSys Workload Automation estate. Maintain and optimise the BMC Helix platform suite. Contribute to out-of-hours support arrangements and improve team resilience. Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions supporting Flexera SaaS integration. Provide engineering expertise and leadership to enable strategic workstreams to continue whilst maintaining BAU services. Support service availability, stability and operational effectiveness across DWP tooling services. Resources must possess demonstrable experience of one or more of the following technologies: AutoSys Workload Automation (WLA) BMC Helix Operations Manager (BHOM) BMC Helix Capacity Optimisation (BHCO) BMC Helix Discovery Infrastructure as Code (IaC) DevOps engineering practices Flexera Software Asset Management platform (desirable)
22/09/2026
Full time
Support and administration of the AutoSys Workload Automation platform used to manage DWP batch scheduling services. The engineer will provide operational support, incident resolution, platform maintenance and participation in the out-of-hours on-call rota to maintain service availability. Maintain operational support for the AutoSys Workload Automation estate. Maintain and optimise the BMC Helix platform suite. Contribute to out-of-hours support arrangements and improve team resilience. Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions supporting Flexera SaaS integration. Provide engineering expertise and leadership to enable strategic workstreams to continue whilst maintaining BAU services. Support service availability, stability and operational effectiveness across DWP tooling services. Resources must possess demonstrable experience of one or more of the following technologies: AutoSys Workload Automation (WLA) BMC Helix Operations Manager (BHOM) BMC Helix Capacity Optimisation (BHCO) BMC Helix Discovery Infrastructure as Code (IaC) DevOps engineering practices Flexera Software Asset Management platform (desirable)
Support, maintenance and optimisation of the BMC Helix platform suite including BMC Helix Operations Manager (BHOM) BMC Helix Capacity Optimisation (BHCO) BMC Helix Discovery Resources will provide infrastructure engineering expertise, platform support, service improvement activities and technical leadership to maximise value from the Helix implementation and support operational teams. Engineers will participate in the out-of-hours support rota. Maintain operational support for the AutoSys Workload Automation estate. Maintain and optimise the BMC Helix platform suite. Contribute to out-of-hours support arrangements and improve team resilience. Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions supporting Flexera SaaS integration. Provide engineering expertise and leadership to enable strategic workstreams to continue whilst maintaining BAU services. Support service availability, stability and operational effectiveness across DWP tooling services. Resources must possess demonstrable experience of one or more of the following technologies: AutoSys Workload Automation (WLA) BMC Helix Operations Manager (BHOM) BMC Helix Capacity Optimisation (BHCO) BMC Helix Discovery Infrastructure as Code (IaC) DevOps engineering practices Flexera Software Asset Management platform (desirable) The SFIA 5 resource requirement reflects the need for engineers capable of both technical delivery and leadership responsibilities whilst enabling existing DWP resources to focus on strategic initiatives.
22/09/2026
Full time
Support, maintenance and optimisation of the BMC Helix platform suite including BMC Helix Operations Manager (BHOM) BMC Helix Capacity Optimisation (BHCO) BMC Helix Discovery Resources will provide infrastructure engineering expertise, platform support, service improvement activities and technical leadership to maximise value from the Helix implementation and support operational teams. Engineers will participate in the out-of-hours support rota. Maintain operational support for the AutoSys Workload Automation estate. Maintain and optimise the BMC Helix platform suite. Contribute to out-of-hours support arrangements and improve team resilience. Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions supporting Flexera SaaS integration. Provide engineering expertise and leadership to enable strategic workstreams to continue whilst maintaining BAU services. Support service availability, stability and operational effectiveness across DWP tooling services. Resources must possess demonstrable experience of one or more of the following technologies: AutoSys Workload Automation (WLA) BMC Helix Operations Manager (BHOM) BMC Helix Capacity Optimisation (BHCO) BMC Helix Discovery Infrastructure as Code (IaC) DevOps engineering practices Flexera Software Asset Management platform (desirable) The SFIA 5 resource requirement reflects the need for engineers capable of both technical delivery and leadership responsibilities whilst enabling existing DWP resources to focus on strategic initiatives.
Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - As a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a GCP Security Engineer, you will: Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture) Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you. What skills are essential: Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services Strong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics) The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned) What skills are desirable: In-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments Experience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators Hands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Experience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS Container security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle Experience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools Experience in cryptography management and enhancements Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Microservice-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process: Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test . click apply for full job details
22/09/2026
Full time
Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - As a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a GCP Security Engineer, you will: Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture) Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you. What skills are essential: Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services Strong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics) The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned) What skills are desirable: In-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments Experience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators Hands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Experience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS Container security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle Experience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools Experience in cryptography management and enhancements Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Microservice-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process: Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test . click apply for full job details
Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent . click apply for full job details
22/09/2026
Full time
Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent . click apply for full job details
Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - As a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior / Staff level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a GCP Security Engineer, you will: Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture) Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you. What skills are essential: Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services Strong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics) The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned) What skills are desirable: In-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments Experience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators Hands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Experience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS Container security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle Experience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools Experience in cryptography management and enhancements Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Microservice-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process: Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test . click apply for full job details
22/09/2026
Full time
Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - As a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior / Staff level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a GCP Security Engineer, you will: Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture) Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you. What skills are essential: Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services Strong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics) The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned) What skills are desirable: In-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments Experience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators Hands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Experience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS Container security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle Experience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools Experience in cryptography management and enhancements Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Microservice-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process: Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test . click apply for full job details
Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent . click apply for full job details
22/09/2026
Full time
Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent . click apply for full job details
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our engineering community. You'll also work with modern cloud technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling, helping to build and operate cloud-based services that are scalable, resilient and designed for the future. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, influence technical strategy, and build services that help people access support more quickly and easily. We'll support your development through coaching, mentoring, professional learning and a thriving engineering community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and 60% collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664. The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum for exceptional candidates, subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
22/09/2026
Full time
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our engineering community. You'll also work with modern cloud technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling, helping to build and operate cloud-based services that are scalable, resilient and designed for the future. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, influence technical strategy, and build services that help people access support more quickly and easily. We'll support your development through coaching, mentoring, professional learning and a thriving engineering community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and 60% collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664. The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum for exceptional candidates, subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our engineering community. You'll also work with modern cloud technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling, helping to build and operate cloud-based services that are scalable, resilient and designed for the future. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, influence technical strategy, and build services that help people access support more quickly and easily. We'll support your development through coaching, mentoring, professional learning and a thriving engineering community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and 60% collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664. The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum for exceptional candidates, subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
22/09/2026
Full time
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our engineering community. You'll also work with modern cloud technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling, helping to build and operate cloud-based services that are scalable, resilient and designed for the future. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, influence technical strategy, and build services that help people access support more quickly and easily. We'll support your development through coaching, mentoring, professional learning and a thriving engineering community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and 60% collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664. The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum for exceptional candidates, subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our engineering community. You'll also work with modern cloud technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling, helping to build and operate cloud-based services that are scalable, resilient and designed for the future. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, influence technical strategy, and build services that help people access support more quickly and easily. We'll support your development through coaching, mentoring, professional learning and a thriving engineering community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and 60% collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664. The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum for exceptional candidates, subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
22/09/2026
Full time
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our engineering community. You'll also work with modern cloud technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling, helping to build and operate cloud-based services that are scalable, resilient and designed for the future. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, influence technical strategy, and build services that help people access support more quickly and easily. We'll support your development through coaching, mentoring, professional learning and a thriving engineering community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and 60% collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664. The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum for exceptional candidates, subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our engineering community. You'll also work with modern cloud technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling, helping to build and operate cloud-based services that are scalable, resilient and designed for the future. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, influence technical strategy, and build services that help people access support more quickly and easily. We'll support your development through coaching, mentoring, professional learning and a thriving engineering community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and 60% collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664. The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum for exceptional candidates, subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
22/09/2026
Full time
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our engineering community. You'll also work with modern cloud technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling, helping to build and operate cloud-based services that are scalable, resilient and designed for the future. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, influence technical strategy, and build services that help people access support more quickly and easily. We'll support your development through coaching, mentoring, professional learning and a thriving engineering community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and 60% collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664. The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum for exceptional candidates, subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
Description At , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application . click apply for full job details
22/09/2026
Full time
Description At , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application . click apply for full job details
