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Infrastructure Engineer - Middleware & Integration

  • Coventry Building Society
  • Dec 08, 2022
Full time I.T. & Communications

Job Description

About The Role

The Infrastructure Engineer - Middleware and Integration will join the newly established Spine Platform Team within CBS, to provide a level of technical knowledge to undertake the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems and complete agreed enhancements within the Platform team. The Infrastructure Engineer - Middleware and Integration will provide expertise to assist CBS in the advancement of the Middleware technology during the development of the CBS Digital Spine, and continue advancement in this area post go-live

Work will be undertaken independently with escalation to Senior Engineers if required. The Infrastructure Engineer will look for improvement opportunities within the team and its processes/ procedures on a continuous basis.
An effective team member who provides support and guidance to peers and other team members and contributes to team efficiency through the creation of accurate technical documentation.

Provides technical guidance on implementation of new Integration and Middleware platforms into CBS Digital Spine, Responsible for independently troubleshooting and resolving all product and service incidents Undertake technical tasks such as maintaining scripts, automated code, reviewing logs, assisting build and configuration activity and maintaining the technical estate. Effectively prioritise tasks to ensure high priority activities are completed first Supporting change and implementation where appropriate technical competence has been reached and maintaining an enterprise view.


About You

You will have a willingness to learn, a desire to embrace new technology and open to a challenge. You'll be able to deliver clear and logical documentation for team members and end users to follow

You will have the ability to work well under pressure, whilst being thorough, with a good attention to detail. Alongside this, you will be able to deliver to agreed timescales and complete tasks to agreed levels of quality, within stated timescales with no supervision.

You will have a flexible approach to working hours, including being part of a callout rota to meet own objectives and assist colleagues in meeting their objectives.

And You Will Have

Experience of working in a complex, pressurised production environment with proven delivery experience. Experience of Middleware technologies including building and maintaining API Gateways. Solid experience of core AWS Cloud infrastructure including EC2, S3, ELB's, Auto scaling, Lambda, RDS, VPC's, Security Groups, IAM, Cloud Formation or equivalent Azure Previous experience of supporting virtualization technologies (or equivalent) Scripting/ automation skills, particularly Terraform, PowerShell, BASH. Ansible Tower Experience of supporting one of the core platform systems (Istio/ Kubernetes) Experience in use of Kong/ Kafka/ Calico Continuous Integration concept and experience (goCD, Jenkins, Github Actions or similar) Familiar with Agile ways of working

Desirable Skills

Monitoring and analytics APM tools (DataDog/ Crashlytics ) Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure/ software development paths such as AGILE and LEAN Certified in AWS/ Azure Previous experience as a NetworkLinuxDBAWindows system administrator building & supporting enterprise computing platforms and systems (or equivalent) Knowledge of Enterprise level database solutions, such as Oracle and MS-SQL Financial services or other regulatory environment experience would be desirable.

Hours : Mon to Fri 9am to 5pm + on-call rota
Hybrid working

About The Company
Coventry Building Society has grown into the second largest building society in the UK. Despite being a national Society, it keeps its local values and loyalty, and its caring family ethos.

The best way to judge a company is based on what the people who work there say and our recent employee survey has resulted in us being named as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing by Great Place to Work.

We offer not only fulfilling jobs and exciting career opportunities but a place where everyone can be-long and feel proud to work. What makes us such a rich and progressive place to work is the diversity of our workforce.

And of course, we don't pretend that what you do for us is all there is to you. We want you to bring your whole self to work - parent, carer, artist, triathlete, introvert whatever it is that makes you YOU. We offer the balance to make sure you have plenty of time to do the things you need or want to do alongside work, because we know that's how you are able to be your best.

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