Overview

JOB TITLE: Firewall Infrastructure Team Manager

SALARY: £70 929 - £78 810

LOCATIONS: Leeds, Halifax, Manchester

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Network Services department during a transformative period for the group, all while working in an inclusive, collaborative team that values your growth and ideas.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the key contact point for technical engagement for the bank's critical infrastructure.
• Planning the implementation of sophisticated changes.
• Providing leadership and mentorship to colleagues within your team.
• Delivery of infrastructure and service improvement plans, including gateway upgrades and new builds.

Whilst not crucial to have previously worked in Financial Services, having experience of regulated environments would be favourable.

Qualifications

• Experience of owning an engineering team. Managing risk, meeting security standards, and prioritising the need to maintain and protect service versus transforming capabilities and experiences.
• Experience in technologies including ACI Technologies, and network monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Dynatrace. Checkpoint Firewall knowledge would be preferable.
• Experience of Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling with proficiency in one or more of the following: Python, Harness, Ansible & Terraform,
• Superb communication and teamwork skills.
• Ownership of unblocking technical challenges and having a forward view to prove new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use.
• Find opportunities to reduce operating and change costs, improve change accuracy, and adopt innovative ways to how we deliver change and service.
• Strong people management abilities within a geographically diverse team environment

About working for us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
• A flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits.
• Private health cover.
• Wider corporate benefits and perks.

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today