Lead Cloud Engineer

Working at the Cumberland you become part of something special. Were a Mutual organisation committed to improving the lives of our colleagues customers and community. Our values are incredibly important to us.

Were on an exciting transformational journey with our people firmly at the forefront of our plans. If you want to work for a team integral in helping to drive cultural change a team where you can bring your whole self to work bringing your energy and creativity to make a positive difference then this is the job for you.

As our Lead Cloud Engineer youll lead and be accountable for the health of the Cloud platform engineering discipline. As an expert in your field youll support the technology strategy for your discipline promoting and championing it across the Cumberland.

Youll have the respect and trust of your practice community. This is a hands-on role and youll lead by example communicating and demonstrating the benefits of good and best practice. There is also considerable thought-leadership and communication required in the role and youll create space within the discipline for new ideas.

Youll take line-management responsibility for all Platform Engineers including professional development holiday/sickness tracking and performance management (objectives appraisals).

You should also grow the profile of the discipline internally and externally.

The Benefits

• Salary - up to 76408 p.a. depending on skills and experience.
• Holidays - 25 days holiday plus public holidays and the opportunity to buy and sell up to 3 days.
• Learning and Development opportunities - We want you to grow in your role. Well work together to support your personal and professional development.
• Hybrid Working - the tools and equipment you need to be able to work from home when you need to depending on your role.
• Health and Wellbeing - a calendar of events and activities throughout the year Mental Health & Wellbeing champions and Cycle to Work scheme.
• Community Day - We offer our people an extra paid day off every year to help local charities and community organisations.

The Role

• Co-accountable for defining cloud infrastructure strategy and roadmap for high-volume high-performance high-availability applications and platforms
• Stability performance maintenance and ongoing improvement of the CBS Cloud Platform
• The development and maintenance of the CBS cloud platform technology roadmap
• Development and maintenance of best practice standards policy and frameworks/governance
• Ensure that the society has the correct capacity of platform engineering to meet demand via upskilling continual development recruitment and utilizing contingent resources (relationship mgmt. required)
• Developing code and configuring infrastructure/platforms as the situation arises (emergencies pairing training and development)
• Responsible (in conjunction with Cloud Manager and Cloud Architecture) for CBS cloud infrastructure technologies strategy
• Accountable for low-level cloud platform and cloud infrastructure designs
• Accountable for solution option / KDD documentation for cloud engineering
• Accountable for cloud engineering solution/technical design documentation
• Leads the development and improvement of CCoE standards and patterns for cloud engineering
• Supports Design governance (DA) engagement for cloud engineering matters and CBS Cloud platform
• Support new and existing Cloud Platform Engineers and infrastructure colleagues with the ongoing transition to agile ways of working agile delivery teams and the cloud migration journey by ensuring they have the right skills and training
• Building and maintaining pipelines that promote safe and repeatable deployments
• Ensuring Cloud Infrastructure is operating within appropriate cost parameters and that monitoring and altering is in-place to highlight exceptions and outside of tolerance usage
• May be required to provide 24/7 on call technical support (as part of a sensible rota)
• To understand and be aware of the risk and control environment in your area of the business and adhere to processes procedures and policies in order to minimise risks

About You

Were looking for expertise and significant experience working with:

• Azure cloud-based infrastructure
• Monitoring and alerting tools and technologies
• CI/CD tooling and practices (Azure DevOps Pipelines GitHub Actions)
• Agile and waterfall delivery teams

Expert level knowledge (and a preference to work Cloud Native i.e. with Infrastructure as Code) of:

• Microsofts well-architected framework
• Azure networking; TCP/IP DNS Routing HTTP/S Peering Vnets NSGs VPNs load balancers and boundary security appliances
• Azure security best practices (Zero Trust RBAC Defender for Cloud etc)
• Azure Policy
• Landing Zones Management Groups Subscriptions and Resource Groups
• Scripting languages such as PowerShell or Bash

Wed also like to see line management experience that you are comfortable working in agile and waterfall delivery-type teams and are familiar with Confluence and Jira as well as experience in a financial services or other highly regulated environment.

Key skills abilities and behaviours wed like to see include:

• Leadership: Able to articulate and communicate a sense of direction and commitment to people
• Building relationships: Continually uses the combined and cooperative efforts of others. Develops credibility with all stakeholders and influences through democracy
• Operational Excellence: Understand how strong operational delivery supports the vision and strategic plan and can lead large and complex programmes to delivery
• Strategic Vision: Able to step back from daytoday activities to view the business from a different perspective; to see the bigger picture distil information trends and needs to build credible strategies to achieve the desired vision and commercial outcomes
• Commercial/Member Focus: Balances business acumen with a passion for the member; focuses on maximising competitive position and member loyalty without compromising financial stability
• Achievement Driven: Displays desire and drive for success projecting enthusiasm and having impact on others models drive and resilience and leads by example
• Risk Aware: Possesses a deep understanding of the regulatory environment
• Mutual Ethos: Espouse mutual ethos and have an affinity with and a commitment to the membership model

Were here to create a banking experience thats kinder to people and planet.

Unlike banks we dont have public or private shareholders which means we can invest 100% of our profits back into our business. As a result our business is purpose-led financially strong socially responsible and always focused on our people planet and communities.