Senior Engineer – Platform Engineering (Azure Architect and SRE)

Team IT

Location Holborn Office

County Central London

Ref # 24427

Closing Date 05-May-2026

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.

 

As a Senior Engineer – Platform Engineering (Azure Architect and SRE) you will brings strong Azure design and SRE principles to evolve our cloud foundations. This role ensures our platforms are secure, observable, compliant and built for resilience and repeatability.

What you will do:
 

•   Own Azure architecture patterns for networking, identity, resiliency and platform services.

•   Drive SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and automated reliability tooling.

•   Lead observability, monitoring, logging and incident response engineering.

•   Improve platform scalability, disaster recovery, backup strategy and environmental parity.

•   Provide architectural direction to squads and mentor engineers across cloud disciplines.

 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: 
 

•   Deep Azure architecture experience including landing zones and cloud governance.

•   Strong SRE mindset with proven hands on reliability engineering.

•   Strong automation experience with IaC and cloud security controls.

•   Expertise across Kubernetes, container platforms, networking and identity fundamentals.

•   Ability to influence platform standards and guide engineering teams.

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

 Our promise to you…
 

•    We believe in “one in, one up” at Metro Bank, growing our own and promoting from within. That is why we are looking for YOU! An AMAZEING colleague to move into this FANtastic new role!

•    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!

Important Footnote

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!