[Hiring] Infrastructure Engineer @Griffin

Role Description

Day to day, you'll manage the infrastructure the bank runs on - both in the cloud and on our own hardware in third party data centres. This means:

• Running FoundationDB clusters and building tooling for hitless upgrades
• Managing Kubernetes
• Writing infrastructure as code in Pulumi and CDK
• Running the Bazel build farm
• Owning the deployment pipeline from CI to production

Operational resilience is a big part of the job:

• Replica clusters
• Multi-region failover
• Chaos engineering to test how systems handle failures

On our roadmap currently is:

• Building out our self-hosted infrastructure to support a hybrid-cloud setup and remove single-vendor reliance
• Improving how Kubernetes scales
• Improving the build farm
• Building out our PKI infrastructure
• Plans for a global HTTP routing layer to allow seamless failover between sites

Our infrastructure as code is written in TypeScript. Where it makes sense, tooling gets written in Clojure. There's some Rust too.

Qualifications

• Solid systems experience
• Cloud infrastructure experience
• Programming fundamentals
• Comfort with startup environments

Requirements

• Infrastructure architecture decisions
• Production reliability
• What other teams depend on to ship
• Infrastructure cost and efficiency

Benefits

• Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK
• Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year
• Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break
• Share options: Own a part of what we’re building together
• Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme
• Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG
• Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva
• Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service
• AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools
• Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment