Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Economics & Capacity Management

hackajob is collaborating with Metro Bank to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

At Metro Bank, we believe the best banking experience starts with people who genuinely care. We're not just delivering banking services - we're building trust through authentic connections. Here, our people come first; our colleagues are part of a team that values individuality, collaboration, and long-standing relationships. We are also all about balance so most of our jobs offer the opportunity for hybrid working built around your role and home life, wherever possible.

This role requires you to be office-based in our Holborn office 2-3 days per week.

What you will do:

• You will help shape Metro Bank's next generation approach to cloud economics, platform consumption and capacity management across Azure, Rackspace and engineering platforms such as GitHub and Copilot.

• Work closely with Operations and Engineering teams, you will improve visibility, drive optimisation opportunities and embed cost conscious engineering practices into the software delivery lifecycle.

• Define and evolve FinOps, capacity management and consumption management practices for NextGen platforms.

• Partner with Operations teams to improve forecasting, reporting and governance across cloud, infrastructure and engineering tooling spend.

• Drive optimisation opportunities through architecture, instance selection, scheduling, utilisation management and automation.

• Establish standards, guardrails and reporting that enable teams to make informed technical and financial decisions.

• Leverage AI and data driven insights to identify trends, risks and opportunities.

• Influence engineering teams to adopt cost conscious behaviours without compromising resilience, security or delivery outcomes.

And we are a bank so risk is a part of everything we do. We love people who take responsibility, do the right thing for customers, colleagues and Metro Bank and have the ability to call out any concerns.

What you will need:

• Strong platform engineering or cloud architecture background, particularly in Azure

• Experience improving cloud economics, utilisation, capacity planning or platform cost management within an enterprise environment

• Understanding of public cloud, private cloud, Kubernetes, virtual machines and subscription based engineering platforms

• Able to influence technology decisions, challenge existing practices and drive adoption of better engineering behaviours

• Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all our stakeholders

Our promise to you

• We will make sure that you are well-rewarded by providing you with a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits, including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, and a number of colleague discounts!

• We will give you the training to ensure you succeed in your role and plenty of internal opportunities to progress your career (around 40% of our recruitment comes from internal promotions!

Diverse teams really are the best teams. We know that candidates (especially women, research tells us) may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. We also know that 'normal' office hours aren't always doable, and while we can't accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren't sure if you are 100% there yet why not give it a whirl? Please note that sometimes we may close a job earlier for applications if we are inundated with amazing candidates Good luck!