Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer

• You’ll engineer infrastructure technology for public and private cloud environments, complying with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
• You’ll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, working with customers to help them use our products appropriately through a users’ CI or CD pipeline
• This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work

What you’ll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products through to end of support and retirement. You’ll also support engineered products and respond to user feedback, new feature requests and resolve production issues wanted by the Product Owner.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Work within a team to design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Work with users to help use our products and gain feedback
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
• Generate innovative ideas and drive the delivery of those through product features

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in software development or automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You’ll also have experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to relate everyday work to the vision of the feature team, platform and domain.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Strong understanding of IBM Z hardware infrastructure, including DASD, SAN/FICON connectivity and network infrastructure
• Experience using Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) to implement and manage hardware configuration changes within multi-site, multi-sysplex environments
• Strong understanding of GDPS architectures and operations, including processor management, DASD replication, virtual tape technologies and disaster recovery automation
• Working knowledge of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
• Experience of using observability tools and techniques and the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Public cloud vendor knowledge covering GCP, AWS and Azure
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre

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• Annual leave
• Company pension
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• On-site parking, Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

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Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.

+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.

Your leave allowance

28 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.