Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure

What is Flagstone?

Flagstone is many things. An online savings platform, reinventing how individuals, businesses, and charities manage, protect, and grow their cash. A diverse group of people, bound by a collaborative spirit, and shared purpose. And lastly, a thriving, profitable business – where smart people do their best work.

Each definition shares a common thread: our unique culture. It’s our pride and joy. And our competitive advantage.

A feel for our culture

To revolutionise the savings market, we need to be at our best. But high performance takes more than talent – it takes a culture of kindness, respect, and growth.

That’s why we’re building a diverse, inclusive community, where your voice is heard and valued. Where, with close support and room to develop, you can surpass even your own expectations. And be rewarded for it.

We may not change the world, but we can change the world of financial technology. And all it takes is a winning mix of drive, talent, and empathy. Our culture celebrates all three.

But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.

Does this sound like you?

You're a senior cloud and security professional, excited to forge a new way to save. The purpose of this role is to produce and maintain high quality systems to achieve business objectives through contributions to the development process including system design/architecture. An engineer will work in partnership with relevant teams across the organisation to identify how technology can solve business challenges and be capable of answering “how and why” the technology is designed and delivered.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, part of the day-to-day will involve coaching and mentoring other Engineers, helping them develop better solutions and understand system design.

What you’ll do:

Strategy – Contributes to setting the technical strategy for the squad in partnership with the Engineering Team Lead and Principal Engineer taking into consideration the impact on the wider business.

Delivery – Directly contributes to the delivery of solutions and indirectly through assisting and unblocking others in the team. Continually looks to improve software engineering processes and practices. Helps with capacity management.

Decision Making – Contributes to strategic decisions, taking tactical and operational decisions relating the technology stack looking beyond the current feature work up to 1-3 months ahead. Mostly concentrating on shorter term decisioning to facilitate the delivery of the current feature. Will also factor in costs when considering solution choices. Regulatory and compliance considerations are highlighted.

Operational Mindset – Evangelises the “you build it, you run it” mantra and always considers operational concerns as part of feature delivery and system design, including run books, monitoring, alerts and general maintenance. Non-functional requirements are designed for and, where unclear, provides support to the Product Manager so they can be shaped and understood.

Quality – Ensures contributions maintain quality standards in the form of adherence to ADRs, style policies and testing strategy through coaching and peer review. Provides input to the quality gates and standards, identifying opportunities for improvement and driving their implementation.

Risk & Incident Management – Understands, identifies and raises risks as necessary and assisting less experienced engineers with the risk process, embedding a “Think Risk” culture. Will contribute and also occasionally facilitate with incidents, including their identification, management (handling and communication) and resolution while ensuring adherence to process to maintained.

People – Acts as a role model for Flagstone culture and behaviours. Understands own performance and responsible for their own development and helps others through coaching and mentoring. Assists with interviews and is capable leading an interview. An integral part of onboarding of new joiners.

What you’ll bring:

• Confident verbal and written communication of domain to both technical and non-technical people, including strong stakeholder management. 
• Coaching and mentoring
• Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft AAD and Bicep
• Networking and Development
• CI/CD pipelines
• DevOps practices, ideally in Azure DevOps
• Service performance
• Metrics and Alerting
• Architecture / System design
• Agile and scrum practices

How we reward you:

At Flagstone, the benefits extend beyond false gifts like “fruit and snacks”. Instead, we invest in your health, wealth, and professional development. Here’s a selection of our benefits:

• Private healthcare
• Life insurance (four times your annual salary)
• Dental/optical care
• Matched pension contributions (5%)
• Income protection
• Around the World in 90 days (remote working possibility)
• £1,000 annual learning bursary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Remote working kit, for when you're not in the office
• Additional 3 days community and charity leave each year
• Quarterly half days for Wellness leave
• Flexible bank holidays
• Gym discount

All are welcome.

At Flagstone, we’re assembling a diverse team that defies our industry’s norms. Think this role could suit you? We encourage you to apply, no matter your background.