Junior Platform Engineer

We’re Atom bank

The bank that’s leading the fintech charge!

We’re not like the rest. We’re true innovators, and we’re redefining what a bank should be. Ours is a bank for today and the future, a mobile-first bank. Forget the stuffy branches, with Atom you can bank whenever, wherever, faster, and simpler.

Could you be the next innovator to join us?

Please note, this role will require regular office attendance in Durham, so that we can best support your development & learning.

What will your ‘typical’ day look like… (there’s no two days the same in Atom):

Our DevOps/Platform team are Award-Winning and have built the infrastructure of the bank from the ground up using a mix of cloud native services and solutions running on GCP. We use Hashicorp Vault & Consul to ensure security, while automated pipelines are developed using Terraform/Packer, Ansible & Jenkins. At Atom, we always look for ways to improve our operation. This means relentlessly testing our infrastructure and deployments so that we can be sure we can recover from unexpected failures.

Our Platform Engineers ensure that Atom manages its Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, environments, and tooling to enable developers to develop, testers to test and customers to use the Atom production app. Automation is at the heart of everything we do, providing speed, reliability, and consistency across the entire Atom cloud platform.

As a Junior Platform Engineer, you’ll be assigned to one of our Value Streams provide hands-on capability to build, operate and ensure the platform is highly available, resilient, and performant for Atom’s customers and internal technology teams.

This role is part of a career pathway within Engineering and will allow you to build on your knowledge within DevOps/Platform Engineering and develop your skills within Atom.

You will also:

• Participate in daily stand-ups and discussions within cross functional team.
• Collaborate with others to design and develop a wide range of key systems.
• Ensure best practices of trustworthy computing and secure development and implementation lifecycle are adhered to.
• Ensure engineering processes have a focus on scalability, performance and monitoring.
• Work with other team members to facilitate regular software releases using a continuous deliver pipeline.
• Ensure developed components have the appropriate level of quality and governance (version control, documentation, unit testing)
• Provide production support and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure, deployed applications and DevOps tooling. Note – this may require out-of-hours on-call duties

What do we need from you?

• A good level of understanding of Cloud, DevOps and Platform Reliability Engineering practices
• An awareness of and interest in programming & automation
• Working knowledge of security best practices when using public cloud platforms
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Flexible and adaptable approach to work
• Ability to work in a fast-paced & dynamic Agile environment

What you’ll get from us:

• Salary £30k-£35k
• Flexible Hybrid working.
• 4-day work week
• Annual Share Option – performance-related
• Incredibly generous company pension scheme (maximum of 13% of Atom input)
• ‘All About Me’ fund: £200 per year to spend on personal development
• 22.5 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life Insurance & Critical illness cover
• Electrical Vehicle Scheme

PLEASE NOTE: You must have the legal right to work in the UK to apply for this role as Atom is unable to support Visa Applications/Sponsorship

Atom is an equal opportunities employer. We value you as an individual and therefore disregard race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, age, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership and disability in any hiring decisions we make. Atom will always adhere to the Equality Act 2010.

All roles within Atom must adhere to the Conduct Rules as set out by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

As part of Atom bank’s commitment to the FCA’s Consumer Duty, Atom will, take all reasonable steps to avoid causing foreseeable harm to customers, take all reasonable steps to enable customers to pursue their financial objectives and act in good faith.