Staff Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) - Engine by Starling
Starling Bank1 day ago
Manchester, United Kingdom +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, document, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP across multiple regions.
- Ensure cloud environment performance, reliability, security, compliance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Automate infrastructure and minimize manual implementation using Terraform and scripting.
- Operate GCP key and secret management with Cloud KMS, Cloud EKM, and Secret Manager, including cryptographic key ceremonies.
- Design hybrid connectivity between GCP and co-located payment HSMs.
- Diagnose and resolve client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining security and performance.
- Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through operation and shape platform architecture, tooling, and automation.
- Write technical documentation, RFCs, ADRs, runbooks, and operating models, and deliver team training.
- Lead by example and establish a high technical bar for other engineers.
Requirements
- Proven experience with GCP multi-region disaster recovery and Google Cloud organization, policy, and resource hierarchy design.
- Experience with GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, IAM, and VPC Service Controls.
- Experience writing modular Terraform code and working with containerized distributed systems and immutable infrastructure.
- Experience with Cloud KMS, Cloud EKM, Secret Manager, Workload Identity, and Workload Identity Federation.
- Experience with hybrid connectivity using Cloud VPN, Dedicated Interconnect, and Partner Interconnect.
- Experience with observability using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.
- Experience setting up Google Workspace and Google Cloud Identity.
- Experience using Python or Go for automation and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of RESTful APIs, event-driven concepts, networking, routing, database monitoring, disaster recovery, and performance tuning.
- Comfort writing RFCs and ADRs through implementation and production operation.
- Preferred experience with Zero Trust security, mTLS, SSO, AWS, bash, Golang, Java, PostgreSQL, and connectivity to on-premise locations.
- Awareness or ability to leverage Claude Skills during development.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with a preference for being within commuting distance of an office.
- 33 days of holiday including public holidays, with an additional birthday holiday.
- Annual leave increases with service, with the option to buy or sell up to five additional days.
- 16 hours of paid volunteering time per year.
- Salary sacrifice and a company-enhanced pension scheme.
- Life insurance at four times salary and group income protection.
- Private medical insurance with VitalityHealth, including mental health support and cancer care.
- Generous family-friendly policies, referral incentives, and Perkbox membership.
- Access to Cycle to Work, salary-sacrificed gym partnerships, and electric vehicle leasing.
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About Starling Bank
Starling Bank is a UK digital bank offering personal and business current accounts, savings, cards, and lending through a mobile-first platform. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, it holds a UK banking licence and is privately held. It also commercialises its core technology as Engine by Starling, a SaaS platform that provides banking infrastructure to banks and financial institutions internationally.