Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard-to-reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement.
FX and cross-border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross-border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to, from, and across often hard-to-reach markets.
Job Description
As part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of CICD pipelines, application Configuration Management (CM) and Infrastructure as code (IaC), to efficiently and accurately manage CAB’s AWS estate and the applications hosted within.
Reporting to the Lead DevOps Engineer, you will ensure that implementations adhere to guardrails to enable ongoing management of infrastructure and application deployments as code, over time.
You will work closely with Developers, Architects, and Information Security to ensure that deliveries meet their requirements and that production environments conform to CAB and industry standards.
Role Responsibilities
- Hands-on implementation of simple, secure, maintainable pipelines, CM and IaC that meet the requirements of a variety of stakeholders.
- Contribute to guard rails that assist the team in producing implementations to a defined pattern.
- Embrace and support a culture of continuous improvement, both in the implementations delivered and the practices of the team.
- Help with cross team discussions and support other teams to work with your products.
- Partake in backlog refinement and prioritisation of work.
Qualifications
Experience
- Linux and cloud platform experience essential, AWS platform ideal.
- Experience implementing CICD, CM and IaC using tools such as Terraform, Helm and Ansible (Terraform essential).
- Experience of building code pipelines triggered by git events (GitHub Actions preferred).
- Understanding of static and ephemeral environment provisioning and management.
- Experience using application build tools, architectures and platforms such as Gradle, RESTful services, messaging platforms, containerization and automated test frameworks.
- Understanding of artifact versioning and code branching strategies.
- Experience of at least one observability platform (Dynatrace ideal).
Additional Information
- Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
- Life Assurance – 4 times annual salary
- Group Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance – this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical, Dental and Audiology
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