Job Description

Join us as a Network Security Technical Design Architect

You'll collaborate across boundaries to build the best possible solutions for public and private cloud environments and develop infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in You'll also champion and drive the use of automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product along with coaching and mentoring other engineers and collaborating on developmental activities This is a chance to create an environment to build communities with colleagues across bank and share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

What you'll do

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As a Network Security Technical Design Architect, you'll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.


We'll look to you to collaborate with stakeholders to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.


Additionally, you'll:

Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products Be responsible for developing technology standards and patterns within the Network Security Platform Proactively scan the external market and use internal insights, translating these into customer centric products Provide technical leadership in the development of high availability, low cost systems Take a lead technical role in programme increment planning, system demos and retrospective sessions Create and participate in a community of practice, sharing learnings and best practice with the community Use market insights to introduce innovative ideas and driving the delivery of those through product features

The skills you'll need

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We're looking for a strong collaborative communicator who can articulate technical concepts clearly to peers and customers.


To thrive in this role, you'll have experience in design and architecture of enterprise application delivery controller (ADC) solutions, involving vendor technologies such as F5 ADCs and NGINX ingress for Kubernetes. Experience with automation, DevOps, and infrastructure as code (IaC) is essential. Public cloud vendor knowledge covering GCP and Azure would be beneficial.


Furthermore, you'll need:

Proven track record implementing enterprise solutions using F5 LTM, DNS, and AWAF Experience of NGINX ingress controller and NGINX App Protect for Kubernetes Experience of AWS public cloud networking and automated deployments using Terraform Knowledge and experience of Kubernetes, preferably Openshift
Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling such as GitLab
A solid foundation in Networking such as, CCNA or CCNP level knowledge, valid certification not required * The ability to explore multiple approaches and seek new ideas from different sources to overcome barriers and generate innovative solutions to be the best for our customers