Sopra Banking Software
Location
Sheffield | United Kingdom
Job description
Sopra Banking Software works with more than 1,500 banks, building societies and specialized finance providers across more than 80 countries worldwide. We help them to develop, deliver and operationalise their digital transformation strategies. Using our suite of digital banking products and services enables these organisations to deliver remarkable financial services to their clients.
Sopra Banking Software are looking for a Senior DevOps Architect whose role will be to build an end-to-end DevOps solution for delivering infrastructure and applications into production environments.
This will be a senior role within core engineering leading cross-functional teams through a transition to DevOps and CI/CD focussed on delivering infrastructure and deploying products at scale.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams across the organisation to understand the business requirements and translate them into technical solutions that can be operated at scale. You will also promote the DevOps culture across the teams for them to consider the production characteristics when delivering the products.
Responsibilities
As a Senior DevOps Architect, you will have the following responsibilities:
• Guide a team of Architects aligned to delivering infrastructure and products into a production environment.
• Ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across the full DevOps chain from R&D to SRE.
• Design, architect, and implement secure and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements from SRE and business use cases and translate them into technical solutions that we can operate at scale.
• Develop architecture blueprints, technical specifications, and system documentation.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate cloud services and features based on business requirements and in collaboration with SRE teams.
• Ensure the security, availability, performance and TCO optimisation of infrastructure solutions.
• Implement & advise on best practices for cloud infrastructure deployment automation, monitoring, and optimisation.
• Stay up to date with the latest cloud services and features and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
To be successful in this role, you will need the following skills and experience:
• Experience in leading a technical team to deliver to deadline and budget.
• Experience in either a SaaS native software editor, or a software editor who has conducted a successful go to cloud journey.
• Extensive experience in Technical Infrastructure and application deployment with a strong focus on AWS, and Kubernetes technologies and CI/CD pipelines.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, and IAM.
• Knowledge of equivalent services across multiple cloud providers.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing highly available, fault-tolerant, cost efficient and scalable architectures on AWS.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, infrastructure, and application deployment automation with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform and automation tools such as Ansible and Helm.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues. Excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams.
• AWS certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent, are a plus, but not essential.
If you do not have all of the above experience or skills we would still like to hear from you.
As part of our hiring process new employees will be required to pass a confidential consumer credit check and DBS check. This is a straight forward credit check for CCJ’s, bankruptcy and a criminal record check, however if you wish to know more about what is or is not acceptable please ask our recruitment team.
Sopra Banking Software are a certified Great Place to Work!
We offer flexible – hybrid working model of 2 days in office and 3 days working from home. All employees are supported to work from home with DSE assessments and IT equipment where required to be fully productive when remote working.
By joining the Sopra Banking Software team you will enjoy a market competitive salary and our excellent rewards and benefits schemes including 25 days holiday with an option to buy up to 5 more, a 6% employer pension contribution, a buy one get one free employee share scheme, private medical insurance, critical illness cover, a health cash plan, and we offer flexible working arrangements to all employees, plus many more excellent benefits.
We take pride in rewarding our colleagues through Summer parties, treat days in the offices, and a social budget for each department.
Salary is negotiable depending on skills and experience.
At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.
All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.
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