Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Join ASB's journey to adopt a 'cloud first' approach At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get "One Step Ahead" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. Our products don't just serve ads or stream movies - they underpin our economy and touch people's lives. The Cloud Enablement platform delivers reliable and innovative technology solutions at pace, leveraging our thought leadership and expertise. We are responsive, proactive, and transparent. Our goal is to have ‘always on’ capabilities, tomorrow's tech at tomorrow's pace, make things simple, be more awesome and embrace disruption and innovation and to enable our people to innovate at pace; simply and securely. **About the role** As a software consultant in the Platform Engineering Squad, you will be part of a team that is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and supporting an integration ecosystem that enables our delivery teams to build robust, industry standard and consistent integrations that are the building blocks for our customer experiences and enable partner opportunities. Typical activities include creating SDKs, code templates, IaC (Infrastructure as Code) or build/deploy pipeline blueprints, maintaining API Gateways, event streaming brokers and experimenting with new technologies. The key goal of this team would be to enable and accelerate other teams' delivery, and as such, feedback loops with the developer community will be vital. **About you** We'll value your proven initiative, problem solving abilities and ways in which you have shown leadership while performing your role. We are looking for an individual that will provide leadership for the work that had been assigned to them. You will gather and refine business requirements with stakeholders across the bank. You are pragmatic and design effective solutions. You can document and present your technical designs to a wide range of audience. You have the drive to manage and deliver programmes of work to the production environment. You will be given opportunities to extend your sphere of influence beyond your squad to other squads and platforms, both to share your knowledge and experience and to extend it by drawing on the knowledge and experience of others. You will work collaboratively with our squads and stakeholders to be the voice of engineering and deliver products that delight our customers. We are looking for someone who has: - 8+ years of software engineering experience - 3+ years of solution architecture experience - .NET / C# including ASP.NET APIs - PowerShell / Azure CLI - Containerization including Docker, K8s and CaaS (Containers as a Service) platforms such as AKS - Provisioning and deploying to Azure PaaS including ARM/Bicep for IaC and Azure DevOps/GitHub for build/deploy pipelines - Experience in administering integration-oriented tooling such as API Gateways, Event Streaming clusters - Experience with service meshes and Apache Kafka a bonus - A proven ability to assist stakeholders to create and refine user stories for an agile squad - Strong technical documentation skills **Working at ASB** ASB's sense of who we are and what we stand for is grounded in our values. They guide our business in our day-to-day interactions with our team, customers and community. They are what makes ASB - ASB. Along with our interactions, values guide our actions and conduct, making ASB a safe and inclusive environment for both our people and our customers. They show that we care, are passionate and courageous, and that we act with integrity. Most importantly they unite us - because they are ASB. We offer a flexible and supportive work environment and offer an open and inclusive culture; a place where we welcome and value your individuality, ideas and goals.