Associate, Platform Engineering, Network

Purpose of Job

The Associate is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of the Bank’s platforms and software solutions.

The Associate plays a critical role within the squad, taking a lead on designing, developing and optimising EBRD's infrastructure and software solutions within their own value stream.

The Associate provides guidance to individual contributors, and works closely with other multi-functional teams and business product owners, to deliver high quality, product aligned services, that meets our users'needs.

The role may involve leading small projects and the individual is expected to be proficient in software design and ability to implement CI/CD pipeline, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or technologies within their specialism

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Simplify to amplify:

Working within the squad and across other multi-disciplinary teams, the Associate openly questions complexity within and across teams and aims to simplify. The Associate works with business Product Owners to challenge current processes and requests which add no real value and is open to similar challenges from others. The Associate adopts and role models a "progress over perfection" approach across the team to emphasize the importance of continuous and incremental improvements.

Act decisively, commit fully:

The Associate is comfortable taking swift decisions within their sphere of responsibility and instils trust in others to encourage them to take their own. The Associate understands the power of the team and the need to support decisions made, even when these may not be ones they would personally make. The Associate recognises that enabling the team to take swift decisions more efficiently, increases EBRD's agility and our ability to deliver value quicker.

Listen well and speak up :

The Associate helps to create a continuous learning and growth culture where each team member feels safe to share their different perspectives and people do not fear being judged. They encourage and facilitate dialogue and share feedback positively, constructively and respectfully. They role model these behaviours.

Collaborate smartly :

The Associate takes an active role in establishing and encouraging a collaborative culture across a squad, mentoring new team members and fostering productive working relationships with peers in other multi-disciplinary teams. The Associate builds close relationships with critical business Product Owners and SMEs and constantly seeks to improve the delivery of services to the Business.

Engineering Excellence :

The Associate brings in-depth knowledge and experience and uses this to enable others within the team to be successful, though remains humble and is proactive in keeping updated with the latest technologies, tools and best practices within their field. The role will mentor and guide less experienced engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and learning. The role will work with colleagues to understand business needs, design optimal engineering architectures and ensure engineering quality throughout the lifecycle.

Agile Ways of Working :

The Associate is an established agile practitioner and will help the squad to adopt Agile Ways of Working. The role will build and maintain high-performing teams focused on delivering continuous value to our business whilst enabling teams to learn how to adopt an adaptive and iterative approach using experimentation and metrics to help learning and continuous improvement.

Managing cost and budget:

The Associate will follow the appropriate tooling to track time and effort. The Associate will not be directly responsible for budget management however would be responsible for effectively managing the value from technology and delivery partners.

Quality at our core :

The Associate ensures that technical excellence and a quality assurance mindset are embedded with their own and the team's work. This involves a strong focus on automation and use of industry best practices such as Test Driven Development to embed the mindset of accountability across the development lifecycle.

Secure First :

The Associate actively promotes and ensures engineering activities are fully aligned with EBRD Cyber and IT Security policies and procedures, and works to embed a DevSecOps culture and working practices. Working closely with IT security, engineering peers and architecture, the role will ensure that key security controls, toolchain automation, and risk/threat analysis is carried out at every stage of the work done by the team.

Drives User Experience :

The Associate ensures that services which are being developed and supported are based on user needs, which are captured in user stories and acceptance criteria. This helps keep users at the centre of engineering efforts, and enables teams to align with established user journeys and user experience goals, in support of business requirements.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Education and Qualifications

Networks –Network Security

Technology experience in this area includes but is not limited to: · Perimeter Security, including firewalls, intrusion detection/ prevention (IDS/IPS), anti-malware and threat prevention (Check Point, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco). · Cloud network security (Check Point and Microsoft Azure). · Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) – SaaS / on Prem / Azure. · SSL VPNs. · Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). · Macro and micro network segmentation and tagging. · Load balancing, including Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB). · Network Access Control (NAC) covering 802.1x, profiling and MAB. · Wi-Fi security (encryption / authentication / IPS). · RADIUS and TACACS authentication. · PKI infrastructure / certificate deployment and operation.

What is it like to work at the EBRD?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in. 

The EBRD environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital  transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.  As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).