Business Unit: Technology Operations & Cyber Security
Salary Range Min: £49,000 - £70,000 - per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: Remote - work from anywhere within the UK
Contract Type: Permanent Full Time, Permanent Part Time.
Take control of your career. Live a life more Virgin.
Our Team
In our quest to make Virgin Money a Digital Agile Bank, our core vision. We sweat the small stuff, because we know it makes a big difference for our customers and our colleagues. But at the heart of this are our people – who we couldn’t do without. Our bold and brilliant colleagues who bring their A game every single day. The question is – are you ready to bring yours?
Have we got your attention? Let’s tell you more about the job!
What you'll be Doing
This role is to contribute towards the technical expertise within the Azure Cloud platform function. Implementing the strategy and roadmap, contributing to the Design, Build and Run of our Microsoft cloud environment. The successful candidate will be expected to cross train in other technical areas to provide a broader support range.
Working in a DevOps Agile environment as in the banks Estate management and Platform Engineering within Technology Operations and Cyber Security, we are responsible for technology that underpin our colleague and customer multi-channel distribution systems including our websites, mobile applications, client-server applications. Managing Cloud Services to support project demand and operational requirements for the bank.
We Need you to Have
- Experience in Microsoft Azure, Cloud, Infrastructure, and Hybrid environments
- Infrastructure Cloud Services (such as DNS, Virtual Machines, Express Route)
- Azure Platform Administration (Management Groups, Subscriptions, Policies)
- Azure IAM, RBAC & Identity and Group Management
- A successful and proven track record of working in a similar role, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Specialists, Cloud Administrator
- Knowledge and experience of building pipelines, git, and operating systems
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or equivalent public cloud IaC (Infrastructure as Code) technology
- A flair for learning new frameworks, and ideas
- A natural ability to participate in technical forums
- Comfortable working in an agile delivery framework
- Able to work under your own initiative on large scale technical challenges
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage technical and business stakeholders at all levels, as well as strong technical documentation skills
- Proven expertise in incident and change management processes
It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
- Involvement in cloud migrations
- Experience of cloud controls and standards within a regulated industry
- Confident with capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques and financial reporting
- Exposure to Azure Defender for Cloud / Cloud Security
- Good knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration is a plus
- An understanding of scripting languages i.e. Python, Node.js, PowerShell and Bash scripting.
And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.
Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com
Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.
