Quality Engineering Lead (Infrastructure)
Santander Bank, Milton Keynes
Quality Engineering Lead (Infrastructure)
£72000
Santander Bank, Milton Keynes
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 24 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 12ecc74162c84e07b0f6f9b64a4ef678
Full Job Description
- Establishing Infrastructure Testing as a Practice, Framework, Standard, Strategy and Approach to ensure the highest quality of delivery, quality guardrails and operational change
- Creating Target (To-Be) Operating Model by reviewing the current testing scope, practices, and quality controls of Infrastructure to identify gaps and propose recommendations
- Leading and managing Infrastructure testing initiatives and engagements, aligned to supporting and managing the day-to-day implementation of technology change
- Representing Infrastructure within Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) to improve quality, highlighting the standards of engineering skills needed to move towards a defined technology architecture across the testing domain
- Collaborating with Architecture to develop a framework that ensures clear decision making and assessing new solutions against alignment or convergence from the target roadmap
- Collaborating with the wider team in the Technology to evolve the Quality Engineering domain and organisational construct, ensuring it continually meets the needs of the business
A proven track record of operating within a quality engineering and infrastructure domain with the ability to simplify, standardise and automate quality engineering practises - SME knowledge and hands on ability across all aspects of Infrastructure Quality and Testing in both functional and non-functional (including Performance, Capacity, Operational Acceptance, High Availability Disaster Recovery - HADR) and with a clear understanding of necessary industry leading testing tools and processes
- Skilled and knowledgeable across quality engineering practises comprising infrastructure and application, Datacentre and Public Cloud, Virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, AWS EC2), Clustering techniques (e.g., High Availability, Failover), load balancing methods (e.g., hardware, software), firewall technologies (e.g., stateful firewalls, next-generation firewalls) and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Comfortable collaborating across the infrastructure peer group, including implementing and integration of testing best practise and standards
- Experience managing the day-to-day implementation of Infrastructure Quality
- Able to troubleshoot complex testing scenarios prior to production rollout It would also be nice for you to have:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible)
- DevOps, Continuous Integration / Delivery / Testing
- Infrastructure & Capacity Monitoring, We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
1st Stage - A 90 minute session consisting of introduction to the role and technical questions. 2nd Stage - A 60 minute session consisting of competency based questions. If there's anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know. Inclusion At Santander we're creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. How we'll reward you. As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs. - Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
- We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don't contribute yourself. We'll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
- £6,000 car allowance per year.
- Company funded individual private medical insurance.
- Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
- Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
- Share in Santander's success by saving or investing in our share plans.
- As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.