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

Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer - Observability

About this role

You'll work with high-performing infrastructure and software engineering teams, and some incredible Engineers and Architects, supporting the UK business' multi-year migration to AWS - solving complex problems and leading solution migrations to an already well-established public cloud footprint.

What you'll do

Take the lead on the design and delivery of solutions to solve complex problems within our Public Cloud (AWS) environment, with a keen view on automation and simplifying / streamlining tasks to enable our application engineering customers and accelerate the delivery of new business features though our Enterprise toolsets.Drive the future of Observability within our Public Cloud (AWS) environment, rolling out best practice and improving our key metrics like MTTR and MTTD.Working with SMEs, Engineers, Architects, and other stakeholders - you will lead initiatives from "idea" stage, through design socialisation and approval, key decision making, hands-on delivery, and handover into Support

What we're looking for

Experience of setting up, maintaining and driving observability standards for a complicated cloud based estateA capable, cloud engineer, with a passion for solving complex problems, delivering high-quality and well-documented solutionsExperience with building, re-platforming, or re-hosting solutions into the public cloudStrong background in scripting, DevOps tooling, and solution design or full stack developmentAbility to take business and technical requirements through solution design and delivery, communicating effectively with different types of audienceDiverse technical experience, ideally including cloud engineering in a major public cloud, and general Enterprise TechAn effective communicator and influencer, able to work in and across delivery teams towards a common goalA strong growth-mindset, interest in learning new technologies, tools, libraries and frameworksStrong understanding of Cyber security principles and how they apply to infrastructure and cloud technologiesExtensive experience of CICD pipelinesUnderstanding of networking principlesFamiliar and comfortable in an agile delivery environmentHas high standards for engineering excellence

What you'll get to learn (any previous experience would be advantageous)

Observability best practices from industry leading partners.AWS to an advanced level (training and certification available)Work and grow with some incredible Engineers, Architects, and Cyber specialists across the UK and wider US business, as requiredLearn Capital One's Enterprise-scale approach to adoption of the public cloudSolve complex, real-world engineering problems in a regulated financial services environmentPlenty of technical and leadership development opportunities through our internal and external training programmes, as well as an "Individual Contributor" career path

Where and how you'll work:

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. 

 We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home.

 We’re big on collaboration and connection, so you’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What’s in it for you:

Bring us all this and you’ll be rewarded with a role contributing to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformationWe’re continuing our journey into the public cloud and have problems of scale, security, availability and performance for you to help solveWe love continuous learning and that’s why we give you 10% of your time to work on cutting edge innovative projects that shape the way we will work in the futureWe offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leaveOpen-plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café

We are committed to creating a level playing field and seek to create teams that are representative of our customers and the communities we serve. 

We’d love to hear from you if you identify with a typically under-represented group in our industry and are particularly keen to hear from women and ethnic minority candidates.

What you should know about how we recruit:

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

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

REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and alliesOutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associatesMind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for allWomen in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in techEmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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