Lead Software Development Engineer

Farnborough , United Kingdom, Farnborough,Lead Software Development Engineer - SRE (Global Payment Network)

Lead Software Development Engineer - SRE (Global Payment Network)
 

About this role

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. 

We are seeking Site Reliability Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

What You'll Do:

•  You will be joining the SRE team responsible for managing the Digital Payments  platform of Discover, a Global Payments network. 

• You will be improving the reliability of platforms supporting Digital wallets and payments platforms running  high volume transactions. 

What We're Looking For:

• Strong experience of using infrastructure as code and working with  immutable infrastructure and configuration tools such as Terraform and  Ansible to achieve end-to-end automation 

• Good knowledge of Programming, scripting, functional and Performance  testing tools (Python/BASH/Cucumber/JMeter/Gatling) 

• Hands on experience of working with UNIX environments, Load balancers,  GTM's 

• Excellent hands-on experience of working with some of the Observability  tools (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Datadog, Splunk) 

• Strong knowledge of Cloud Platforms, Orchestration (designing  infrastructure deployment patterns within AWS/Kubernetes/OpenShift)
  • Working with multiple, geographically distributed, development teams to  diagnose performance, reliability and security issues in applications and  system design 

• Engage with development teams and do a thorough forensic analysis of  system design and data flows and highlight any resiliency gaps of services.
  • Work alongside the wider payments reliability teams and across Discover  and CapitalOne to ensure we are following similar design patterns and  avoiding duplicated work 

• Work with our technology suppliers to ensure interfacing systems are  following best practices which we have defined. 

• Good working knowledge of database or streaming platform, in particular  strong knowledge in at least one of Kafka or Postgres 

• Mentoring SRE and developers to help them design the right solutions  and promote a culture of reliability and automation and contributing to  Best Practices. 

• Ability to manage multiple high priority efforts/ competing priorities and  flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities.
  • Real interest in documentation - Ability to document technical problems  and postmortems accurately.

Where and how you'll work 

This is a permanent position and is based in our Farnborough office.

We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home. 

We're big on collaboration and connection, so you'll be based in our Farnborough office 2 days a week.

What's in it for you

• Bring us all this and you'll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation

• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)

• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it's about what you do, not just what you say. That's why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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