DevOps Engineer - Senior

Hello, we are Recognise Bank; a modern business bank built to support the UK’s SMEs with tailored lending and savings solutions. Founded in 2017 by experienced business owners, we set out to challenge traditional banking by offering more flexibility, understanding, and practical support to help businesses thrive. Since receiving our banking licence in 2021, we’ve built a loyal customer base and a strong, diverse team that puts people first.

Our vision is building stronger futures with bespoke financial solutions. We understand that no two financial needs are the same, which is why we work closely with UK SMEs and individuals to unlock potential others often overlook. Through smart, flexible lending and savings products, we’re here to build and grow stronger futures for lasting success.

Our values shape how we work and grow together:

• Can do, will do: We take ownership, solve problems, and adapt as our customers’ needs evolve.
• Be brilliant: We show up with curiosity and energy, always striving for better.
• Do the right thing: We act with integrity, responsibility, and care in everything we do.
• Make a difference: We focus on impact, helping our customers, colleagues, and communities succeed.

About the role: Lead the delivery of secure, reliable and scalable technology platforms that support the bank’s systems, applications and data services. The role provides technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, automation and platform engineering capabilities, ensuring solutions are resilient, efficient and aligned to the bank’s risk and control standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions that support the bank’s technology and data platforms.
• Own infrastructure automation standards that improve consistency, resilience and deployment efficiency.
• Drive platform engineering best practices across deployment, observability, monitoring and operational support processes.
• Manage the availability, performance and operational health of technology platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, security and risk teams to deliver secure and scalable technology solutions.
• Improve operational resilience through proactive service improvement, incident management and root cause analysis.
• Define and maintain platform standards, controls and documentation to support consistent and sustainable operations.
• Guide engineers through technical leadership, coaching and knowledge sharing to strengthen engineering capability across the function.
• Safeguard cloud environments by embedding governance, security and risk management requirements into platform operations.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree, professional qualification, apprenticeship, or equivalent practical experience in a technology-related discipline.
• Experience delivering and supporting cloud-based technology platforms.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and driving engineering improvements.
• Experience operating infrastructure as code and automation practices.
• Experience supporting change management, incident management and operational support processes.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, security and technology teams.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platform concepts and services.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code principles.
• Strong knowledge of automation and deployment practices.
• Ability to develop and maintain automation and operational tooling.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting and operational support practices.
• Strong understanding of security, access control and governance principles.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve platform and infrastructure issues.

Desirable:

• Relevant cloud, platform or DevOps certifications.
• Experience within a regulated financial services environment.
• Experience supporting data and analytics platforms.
• Experience contributing to operational resilience or disaster recovery exercises.
• Experience working within multi-account cloud environments.
• Experience mentoring or coaching engineers.
• Knowledge of cloud governance and cost optimisation practices.
• Knowledge of infrastructure development frameworks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tooling.
• Knowledge of Python-based automation.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring platforms.
• Knowledge of data platforms and data engineering workflows.
• Knowledge of regulated technology environments.

£75,000 - £90,000 a year

Why Join?

At Recognise Bank, we’re building more than a bank — we’re creating a culture where people feel empowered to make a difference, supported to be brilliant with a can do will do attitude, and trusted to do the right thing. We believe that when our people thrive, so do our customers. That’s why we invest in an environment that reflects our values and supports your growth, flexibility, and wellbeing.

Here’s what you can look forward to:

• Competitive Time Off – Generous annual leave plus bank holidays to rest, recharge, and enjoy life outside of work.
• Work From Anywhere – Up to 6 weeks per year to work remotely from anywhere in the world.
• Learning & Development – Tailored training and support to grow your skills and achieve your professional goals.
• Hybrid Working – To support your work-life balance, we offer a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.
• Private Medical Care with Vitality – Comprehensive healthcare coverage to keep you healthy.
• Enhanced Pension Scheme – Helping you plan and save for a secure future.
• Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Pay – Supporting you and your family during important life moments.
• Discretionary Company Bonus – Rewarding your contribution to our shared success.

If you’re curious, driven, and ready to be part of something meaningful — where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work makes a real impact — then we’d love to hear from you.