Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer – Observability Full Time

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Capital One UK
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 estate
• A capable, cloud engineer, with a passion for solving complex problems, delivering high-quality and well-documented solutions
• Experience with building, re-platforming, or re-hosting solutions into the public cloud
• Strong background in scripting, DevOps tooling, and solution design or full stack development
• Ability to take business and technical requirements through solution design and delivery, communicating effectively with different types of audience
• Diverse technical experience, ideally including cloud engineering in a major public cloud, and general Enterprise Tech
• An effective communicator and influencer, able to work in and across delivery teams towards a common goal
• A strong growth-mindset, interest in learning new technologies, tools, libraries and frameworks
• Strong understanding of Cyber security principles and how they apply to infrastructure and cloud technologies
• Extensive experience of CICD pipelines
• Understanding of networking principles
• Familiar and comfortable in an agile delivery environment
• Has high standards for engineering excellence

What you’ll get to learn (any previous experience would be advantageou s)

• 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 required
• Learn Capital One’s Enterprise-scale approach to adoption of the public cloud
• Solve complex, real-world engineering problems in a regulated financial services environment
• Plenty 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 transformation
• We’re continuing our journey into the public cloud and have problems of scale, security, availability and performance for you to help solve
• We 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 future
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
• Open-plan workspaces and 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 allies
• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER – network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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Who We Are

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.