Contract Term: 6 Months, Inside IR35

Contracting Authority: Bank of England

Location: Hybrid / London

Please note an active SC Security Clearance is required for this position

Work for an organisation steeped in history with a front row seat for the digitalisation of the financial sector, and the rise of rise of fintech and regtech. A core organisational strength, with our people at our centre, Technology enables the Bank of England to deliver its mission by providing a hugely diverse set of technical solutions and platforms. From supporting critical systems which underpin the UK economy, to evolving data analytics.

Department - Application & Product Engineering

You'll focus on providing quality systems and services that matter to the nation's economy. Payment, Analytical, Supervision and Central Functions systems, we develop and support them all as part of our broad remit. Collaborating closely with colleagues across Technology and throughout the organisation, you will to help deliver safe and supportable services which underpin business processes.

Digital Enterprise Services Domain

The DES Domain is accountable for the provision of enterprise systems and services that support core business and technology functions across the Bank.

It supports the following key platforms:

SAP Platform for asset logistics management including Notes In circulation Processing (NIPS) and Gold Bar Management (GBM)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Platform that includes but is not exclusive to ERP and Human Capital Management (HCM) including core HR, payroll, order processing, accounting, budgeting and resource management
Power Platform and Application Cloud Services for services such as core Bank-wide D365, RTGS, PRA supervision and customer contact information and insight, Azure applications including the Bank's website hosted in Azure using Kubernetes.

It is responsible for the day-to-day operations and technical backlog of the Azure platform where we host our applications as well as the OCI platform which we are beginning to use for HR and Finance applications.

You will be responsible for managing the 'cloud platform' components of some solutions, providing strategic guidance and growing the team. You will work alongside the application teams, deliver small change or to be able to give them advice and guidance as to how to better deliver their services as well as working with the central cloud support domain. You will be challenged to find ways to automate your platform work and identifying and implementing continuous improvement. You will ensure the application platform has industry best practices in place for monitoring and alerting as well as managing logs. Ensuring professional management of patching, certificates and RBAC across the platform. You will be the technical lead for several Bank critical systems.

Responsibilities include:

• Experience in IT operations is important for this role. We have strict change controls to manage systems in a controlled way, and experience in running this type of service is essential, preferably with cloud.
• You will need to be an excellent technical leader, be happy to document and showcase your work to the team enabling them to understand and support your work. We would want you to lead, mentor and collaborate closely with those more junior members in your immediate team and work with colleagues in other Technology teams.
• You will champion continuous delivery in software engineering through use of Dev/Ops practices and your industry knowledge.

Essential Skills

• Experience of operating platforms in a controlled environment with strict change control.
• Strong experience in managing Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with Azure monitoring, logging, and observability tools
• Preference to work as part of a team rather than individually.
• Expert Microsoft Azure and CAF knowledge.
• Microsoft Azure administration skills / certification.
• Windows / Linux Admin.
• Automation scripting (e.g. Terraform).
• Be able to demonstrate a high level of professionalism, organisation, self-motivation and a desire for self-improvement.
• Ability to plan, schedule and manage a demanding workload.

Desirable Skills

• Working knowledge of OCI network, compute, database, and identity cloud services.
• Experience with OCI monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• Experience with SharePoint Online.
• Good .NET and C# skills.
• SSIS skills and data integration/migration software.
• In-depth experience of solution delivery using the full Software Development Lifecycle. This should include experience of working with the Agile and DevOps methodologies working with continuous delivery, automatic regression testing, TDD and monitoring.
• Good knowledge of Azure Networks.
• Good knowledge of SOLR and Zookeeper
• Experience of Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 environments.
• Experience with website fundamentals including Content Delivery Networks (such as Akamai) and Content Management Systems (such as Sitecore).