Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer

at  Capital One UK

WHAT YOU’LL GET TO LEARN (ANY PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS)

• 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, as required
• 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, as well as an “Individual Contributor” career path

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. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.
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Who We Are
At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.
Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good

ABOUT THIS ROLE

You’ll work with high-performing infrastructure and software engineering teams, and some incredible Engineers and Architects, 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, with a keen view on automation and simplifying / streamlining tasks to enable our application engineering customers and accelerate the delivery of new business features though our Enterprise toolsets.
• Working with SMEs, Engineers, Architects, and other stakeholders - you will 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, you will work both within and across teams, blending hands-on engineering with coaching and mentoring of engineers, influencing direction, elevating and including others, and being a source of technical innovation and high standards
• 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