Role: Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Dublin/Hybrid
This role is being offered on a fulltime, permanent basis.
Technology at AIB
At AIB, we understand that the world of banking is changing and new technology is making that happen. Our technology is at the centre of our ambition to be the leading digital bank and we want to be recognised as having the best technology function of any bank in Europe.
Our teams work hard to drive the engine of AIB. They deliver change that is customer focused and help us achieve our ambition of becoming a leading consumer brand. We are evolving our technology so our customers can engage with us in ways and at times that suit them.
We are building pioneering solutions for our customers in a very collaborative and innovative environment. The Technology Team based in our new Digital Hub in Central Park has the responsibility for delivering an ambitious business strategic roadmap.
The Role
The role presents an exciting and challenging opportunity to a Senior Platform Engineer wwho wants to work in a dynamic workplace environment with a real opportunity to positively impact the delivery of strategic change programmes through best in class design thinking and practices.
You will be analysing complex environment issues and understanding technical opportunities in order to build solutions and provide technical and industry leadership knowledge
This is a superb opportunity for someone who wants to develop and enhance their skillset. You will be working within a high performing technical Delivery team, play a role in cross functional teams with a wide reach across AIB and fill a role that will offer experience across a variety of changes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain a DevOps framework that promotes continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
- Design, build, and manage configuration management systems required for efficient software development and deployment, including servers, certificates, networks, and monitoring tools.
- Collaborate with multiple vendors to solve complex environment and application issues.
- Develop and manage Ansible playbooks and roles for automating and application deployment for various environments.
- Provide governance and control of Production and staging environments.
- Create and maintain documentation, guidelines, and standard operating procedures to ensure proper knowledge transfer.
- Identify opportunities for automation and process improvements, and implement tools and technologies to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and reduce manual efforts.
- Solid understanding of cloud-based architectures, services, and deployment models.
- Ideal candidate will have solid hands-on (coding) experience in modern, CI/CD practices/DevOps paradigms, Systems Engineering best practices and principles, administration of modern/distributed SCM systems.
What you will Bring:
- Knowledge or experience with Development Tools: GIT, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc).
- Automated build and deployments using Jenkins, Ansible, Bitbucket, JIRA etc..
- Strong working experience automating with Python, PowerShell, Bash, YAML, JSON, Ansible, or industry equivalent.
- Knowledge or experience in Docker Containers, Docker Management platforms like Kubernetes, is a plus.
- Working knowledge of networking and devices (Load Balancers, SSL/TLS, TCP/IP, VPNs, Firewalls, Proxies, DNS)
- Knowledge or experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Nagios etc.
- Knowledge or experience with secret management technologies such as Venafi, Vault, CyberArk.
- Knowledge or experience working with general Linux administration.
As part of the interview process you will be expected to demonstrate the capabilities reflected below.
Breadth of Technical Knowledge
Effectively leverages broad knowledge of the technical disciplines within own area of expertise, as well as the organisation’s policies, procedures, programmes and tools, to develop and implement solutions.
System and Technology Integration
Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
Technical Knowledge
Provides thought participation and direction while helping the leads, conducting the day-to-day work in a specific technical domain area; applies domain knowledge to develop solutions to problems.
Relationship Management
Cultivates and maintains business relationships, partnerships and alliances internally, externally and virtually with key stakeholders.
Negotiation and Influence
Engages in discussion to reach an agreement and create outcomes, affecting the action, behaviours, or opinions of others.
Develops Talent
Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals
You may also be required to perform a quick peer coding test in java to assess your reasoning skills (max 30 mins).
Life at AIB
At AIB, we have a clear purpose – Empowering people to build a sustainable future. We want to be at the heart of our customers’ financial lives by giving them an exceptional experience. That goes for our employees too.
We are building a culture that breaks the conventions of what our customer and employees expect of a bank.
We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live. Our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements. More details on our hybrid working arrangements and expected office attendance for your role will be provided to you during the recruitment process.
AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We celebrate diversity and believe in a culture of inclusion where all our employees can succeed. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie.
If you feel you have what it takes, click apply and fill in the online application form. If you would like more information please contact the Talent Acquisition Team at careers@aib.ie
By when? Closing date is 20th Sept 2024
Disclaimer:
Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.