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Join us as an AWS Platform Engineer

• We're looking for someone to join the Visualisations & Insights team in Data & Analytics, Technology
• You’ll be working with new and innovative technology to deliver high impact solutions
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

What you'll do

As an AWS Platform Engineer, you'll lead our team’s capability in AWS engineering capability, supporting Tableau and ThoughtSpot installations with platform infrastructure, networking and application installation and maintenance.

You’ll apply widely agreed software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines. We’ll also look to you to oversee the quality of work, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output.

You’ll also:

• Design and develop reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
• Design and develop software that is amenable for a greater automation of build, release testing and deployment process on all environments
• Drive the reuse and sharing of platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams
• Deliver software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services
• Write unit and integration tests, in automated test environments to ensure code quality
• Support the ongoing learning journey of other team members who are developing their skills

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a strong background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as extensive experience of developing software in a SOA or micro-services paradigm. You should also have development experience in a programming language, experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling, and a background of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You'll have a track record of working with Terraform to build clusters and good working knowledge of AWS networking and access control. You'll also be able to make connections between clusters, including interacting with SaaS databases such as Snowflake, and you'll bring strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems, preferably Red Hat.

You’ll also need:

• Extensive experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies
• Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales
• An understanding of how to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• The ability to understand and support, modify and maintain systems and code developed by other engineering teams

If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats or special requirements to access our buildings, or if you’re eligible under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us and we’ll do everything we can to help.