At a Glance
- Tasks: Engineer cutting-edge infrastructure technology for cloud environments and automate testing processes.
- Company: Join a leading bank with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, continuous learning opportunities, and a dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career growth and networking within the tech community.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by developing modern infrastructure solutions and collaborating with diverse teams.
- Qualifications: Experience in software development, automation scripting, and understanding of IBM Z hardware.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Join us as a 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.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products through to end of support and retirement.
- Support engineered products and respond to user feedback, new feature requests and resolve production issues wanted by the Product Owner.
- 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.
The skills you’ll need
- Experience in software development or automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.
- 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.
- 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.
Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer in London employer: NatWest Group
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