Environment Analyst, AVP

Join us as an Environment Analyst

• In this key role, you’ll support a set of environments used by a platform’s applications and assist as a point of contact for environment related activities
• We’ll look to you to assist environment managers in preparing a rolling environmental strategy which considers risks in relation to stability and resilience
• You’ll be joining a collaborative and supportive team, and have the opportunity to work with a range of stakeholders across the bank
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level

What you'll do

We’re looking for an Environment Analyst to enable the successful implementation of platform change and deliver customer value by assisting environment managers to deliver complex and critical environment related activities. You’ll help create stories and features for the domain backlog to enable a continual progression of changes and look for ways to improve efficiency, resilience, reliability, quality and manual inconsistency by increasing the use of automation and virtualisation.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Supporting environment managers in managing a set of non-production environments and maintaining non-production environment dashboards
• Understanding and maintaining a focus on customer value and providing a positive customer experience
• Continually looking for ways to increase speed, efficiency, quality, resilience and reliability by introducing automated and virtualised environments
• Working with environment managers to understand the upcoming flow of work and the customer vision in order to contribute to a fast response to environment related needs
• Working with a range of stakeholders across the bank and third party suppliers to make sure that platform environments are optimised

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for a capable communicator with ten plus years of IT experience in infrastructure management role with hands on and in depth experience in PCF & AWS and good knowledge of GCP and Azure. You'll have exposure in cloud environment management including Kubernetes & Docker with Unix, Postgres and MongoDB.

You'll be expert in AWS Networking (VPC, DX-connect), AWS EKS, EC2 Autoscaling, ECR, AWS SES, SNS, Lambda, API Gateway and Karpenter.

We’ll also expect:

• Familiarity with deployment and configuration of SpringBoot applications in Cloud
• Experience of DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines and experience of scripting in Python, Terraform, Ansible, Unix Shell and PowerShell.
• Experience of using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information, and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions.
• Extensive experience of networking technologies such as such as LAN, WAN, load balancing and firewalls, ideally including F5 and Fortinet
• Experience of tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Splunk, and ServiceNow