Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Division – Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI)

Department – Digital Delivery

Salary – ranging from £52,400 – £80,600 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

The Team/Department

As part of the Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI) Division, we are leading the FCA in harnessing the power of data and advanced analytics to transform financial regulation.  

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineer to join the Digital Delivery Hub (DDH). This role works closely with our development squads through the design, building, and maintaining of scalable and efficient platforms that support the work across DDH and wider FCA strategy. This role requires a deep understanding of system architecture, cloud services, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, making it critical for the successful development, running and maintaining of the products supported by the Digital Delivery Team.

This role will require working with other product groups across DTI such as the Infrastructure Product Group (IPG) to coordinate activity across platforms and environments utilised by DDH. Mentoring and providing leadership across the development teams within the DDH to promote the use of AWS best practices and ensure the quality of developed infrastructure.

What will you be doing?

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable platform solutions, including monitoring, managing and optimising cloud-based (AWS) resources

• Mentoring and providing leadership across the development teams within the DDH to promote the use of AWS best practices and ensure the quality of developed infrastructure

• Defining and owning the DevSecOps strategy for the DDH

• Feed engineering insight and experience into the wider Strategy and Architecture team to identify opportunities to improve engineering across the whole organisation

• Document all procedures and policies for maintaining and improving system infrastructure

• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) for efficient and secure deployment and operations, whilst also working with development teams to facilitate the deployment and operation of systems

What will you get from the role?

We believe in doing things differently. We believe in collaboration, inclusivity, innovation and using data to be at our best. We place emphasis on curiosity and experimentation. We collaborate widely with other regulators, academics, innovative companies, and within the FCA.  

Importantly, we believe that people need space to learn and grow and we supply supporting learning programmes and opportunities for all staff.  

In our culturally diverse team, everyone is encouraged to be part of the team and put their ideas forward. We strongly value, encourage and support diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

This is an important role in both the development of the wider FCA digital capability and the development of the Leeds Digital Hub as an FCA centre of excellence. The Leeds Digital Delivery Hub is dedicated to the implementation of sound User Centred Design, Agile and DevOps principles.

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)

Minimum

• Experience as a Senior Platform Engineer including a solid understanding of software engineering principles and their application

• Experience of Scripting and pipeline automation (e.g. Jenkins and GitHub Actions)

• Strong working knowledge of cloud services (AWS) and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Essential

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform

• Experience of working closely with development and infrastructure teams to quickly understand requirements and implement solutions

• Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery

• Ability to cooperate closely with both engineers and product teams — including designers, product managers, and analysts

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee are women.

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)

• Private healthcare with Bupa as standard

• A non-contributory pension of between 8% and 12%

• Life assurance as standard (8x salary)

• Income protection as standard

We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.  Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares.  We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.

Follow this link to see what life is like at the FCA – Life at the FCA

Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded Senior Associate – Regulatory

• SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting

• Advert closing: Midnight 18 June (please apply no later than 11.59pm 17 June)   

• CV review/shortlist: 18-20 June

• Interview to assess technical capability and core skills: w/c 30 June

Your recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time. 

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact: Steve Christopher at [email protected]

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.