Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

You’ll work with high-performing infrastructure and software engineering teams, 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, focusing on automation and streamlining tasks to enable our application engineering customers.
• Work with SMEs, Engineers, Architects, and other stakeholders to lead initiatives from idea stage through design socialisation and approval, key decision making, hands-on delivery, and handover into Support.
• As a member of both the Outcome Team Leadership Team and as a Senior Engineer in an agile delivery team, blend hands-on engineering with coaching and mentoring of engineers.
• Work with teams, Engineering Managers, Architects, and Technical Programme Managers to define and deliver a migration and capability roadmap.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders, tribes, Cyber security, Operations, and the wider engineering community.
• Identify and define engineering patterns, capabilities, initiatives, and influence best practices for Operational Excellence, Security, and Quality Engineering.

What we’re looking for

• A capable, technical lead, with a passion for solving complex problems, delivering high-quality and well-documented solutions, and helping engineers to grow.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.

Where and how you’ll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working model, providing great spaces for in-person collaboration. You’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What’s in it for you

• Contribute to the roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation.
• We love continuous learning and that’s why we give you 10% of your time to work on cutting-edge innovative projects.
• High performers have strong and diverse career progression, with investment in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes.
• Immediate access to core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance.
• Open-plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you.

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.