About this role
Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, with expanding applied experience
- Foundational hands-on experience with Terraform for writing, structuring, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code stacks
- Working knowledge of AWS services, including EC2 and VPC networking, IAM, RDS, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch
- Foundational experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes, including deploying workloads and supporting cluster operations
- Practical experience with AWS cloud infrastructure in a production or near-production environment
- Familiarity with production-readiness practices, including observability through metrics, tracing, and logging, and incident management in distributed systems
- Working knowledge of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities for software engineering workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
- Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code and technical recommendations, escalate when uncertain, and follow security and data-handling requirements
- Preferred: Experience with cloud relational databases, such as Oracle on RDS, SQL fundamentals, and event-driven messaging platforms such as Amazon MSK/Kafka, EventBridge, or SNS
- Preferred: Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, platform engineering patterns, and automation scripting such as Python
- Preferred: Familiarity with Java and/or Kotlin server-side development using Spring Boot
- Preferred: Exposure to multi-region or disaster-recovery architectures with automated failover
- Preferred: Awareness of financial services, capital markets, trading workflows, or portfolio management
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable, resilient AWS infrastructure using Terraform modular stacks for services including EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, EFS, Amazon MSK, KMS, Secrets Manager, EventBridge, SNS, CloudWatch, and Lambda
- Support Amazon EKS lifecycle operations, including cluster upgrades, node group and add-on updates, and remediation with minimal disruption to production workloads
- Monitor and support the health of our AWS estate through triage, root-cause analysis, remediation, and participation in incident and problem management
- Contribute to building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins pipelines, that apply infrastructure changes safely and reliably
- Instrument infrastructure for observability with tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, and Dynatrace, and use telemetry to improve infrastructure hygiene
- Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to support design comprehension and coding tasks, such as drafting unit tests and documentation; validate outputs and handle data according to sensitivity and security requirements
- Contribute to server-side development for our Spectrum Portfolio Management Fixed Income product in Java and/or Kotlin with Spring Boot as your skills expand
- Support a team culture of diversity, inclusion, opportunity, and respect
Technologies
- AI
- AWS
- Lambda
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CloudWatch
- Datadog
- Docker
- Dynatrace
- EC2
- Helm
- IAM
- Incident Management
- Support
- Java
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- Kotlin
- Kubernetes
- Oracle
- Python
- SQL
- Security
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Terraform
- NodeJS
- DevOps
- Network
More
We are a leading global investment bank and financial services provider, serving corporations, governments, wealthy individuals, and institutional investors with strategic advice and products. Our Asset & Wealth Management business delivers investment management and private banking solutions across a broad spectrum of asset classes. As a Software Engineer II on our Global Technology team, you will help support cloud infrastructure for portfolio management capabilities in our Fixed Income business, working with engineers and product owners on the Spectrum Portfolio Management Fixed Income product. The role centers on a large Terraform-driven AWS environment and offers the opportunity to grow into application development. We value curiosity, collaboration, technical excellence, diversity, and inclusion, and we are an equal opportunity employer that provides reasonable accommodations.
last updated 43 week of 2026