Data Centre Network Engineer

Join us as a Data Centre Network Engineer. We’ll look to you to develop and implement core infrastructure technologies, products and services against customer and non-functional requirements. In order to achieve a first-class customer experience, you’ll make sure the infrastructure technology is engineered to comply with security, availability and resilience, performance and capacity. You’ll work with colleagues across the bank, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, ensuring alignment to the Chief Technology Office (CTO) strategic targets and architecture outcomes.
• Make sure the required work in the platform backlog contains detailed acceptance criteria, which ensures that operations support or warranty period is clear and accountable once a system migration is complete.
• Contribute to a high number of complex and risk exposed technical infrastructures.
• Produce and provide ongoing management of infrastructure roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products and versions, through to end of support and retirement.
• Provide operational support to other infrastructure teams in the event of major incidents or complex technical issues.
• Build and leverage relationships with colleagues across the bank to make sure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the organisation.

The skills you'll need:

• Ability to understand how your area of expertise supports customers, from the core development of technology to risk based decisions.
• Clear understanding of infrastructure layers or stack, and a broad knowledge across multiple platforms such as server, operating system, virtualisation, database, middleware or network.
• Experience of contributing to roadmaps and strategies and working closely with third parties on assurance of their output and managing their performance.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues, with good collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Good knowledge of Cisco Datacentre Network Architecture, TCP/IP protocol suite and network technologies including, Software Defined Networking, such as ACI and VXLAN, traditional networking, BGP, OSPF, Cisco IOS/NX-OS and design concepts.
• Knowledge of, or an interest, in APIs and automation tools, methodologies and practices such as Ansible.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to colleagues and management.
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• A solid background working in an Agile or DevOps environment with continuous delivery and continuous integration.