Platform engineer

Job Description

About you

You’ll be joining Team Manul within the Infrastructure Cluster at ClearBank, supporting and evolving our Swift payments platform, which underpins critical domestic and international payment flows.

This role has been intentionally designed to balance Run the Bank (RTB) responsibility with change and improvement work, giving you exposure to both live production support and platform development. You’ll work within a small, experienced team that owns a mission‑critical payments platform, where learning, technical progression and long‑term SME development are strongly encouraged.

Importantly, this is not a Swift specialist role. While the platform uses Swift technologies, we are looking for a platform or infrastructure engineer with solid technical fundamentals who is motivated to learn the Swift domain over time. Full support, training and mentoring will be provided.

And you’ll be joining one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK, according to Deloitte Fast 50.

You will be

• Supporting the day‑to‑day operation of a business‑critical payments platform, ensuring stability, resilience and availability

• Assisting with platform changes across the full lifecycle, including build, testing, deployment and post‑change validation

• Supporting both planned change and production incidents, contributing to investigation, resolution and clear stakeholder communication

• Working with on‑premises and cloud‑hosted infrastructure, gaining hands‑on exposure over time

• Learning the Swift payments ecosystem, tooling and operational requirements, with the opportunity to develop into a subject matter expert

• Contributing to platform documentation, testing practices and continuous improvement activities

What we are looking for

• Solid understanding of Windows Server environments

• Exposure to Linux, ideally RHEL or similar

• Basic cloud experience, preferably Microsoft Azure

• Foundational networking knowledge (e.g. connectivity, routing concepts)

• Awareness of change control in regulated or business‑critical environments

• Understanding of testing and regression testing, and why organisations test changes before release

Desirable skills and experience, nice to have but not essential

• Hyper‑V or other virtualisation exposure

• Introductory scripting experience (any language)

• Awareness of APIs and/or microservices concepts

• Early exposure or interest in automation or AI, even at a conceptual or learning level

A little bit more about us!

ClearBank is Where You Can belong:

At ClearBank we think about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) a lot. Not because we think we should. But because we know we should – how else can we build a happy workforce and be successful as a business. We’re committed to making sure our teams reflect society. And we put energy and effort into making this a place where everyone feels at home, where they’re given the trust and encouragement to do their very best work. Here are some of the things we’re most proud of:

• 42% of our senior management roles are held by women

• Our enhanced family leave policies

• Launching our partnership with Code First Girls

• Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group

Our hiring process and what you can expect:

Application: a member of our talent acquisition team will review your application against the key requirements for the role and let you know within two weeks whether you’re moving forward to the next stage;

Screening: You’ll spend 30-45 minutes speaking to one of our recruiters learning more about the role and ClearBank, and we’ll get it know more about you, your experience and how your skills align with the role (this will be via phone or Teams video call). You can expect to hear back from us within seven days following this meeting (if things are taking longer than expected, we’ll let you know that too);

First Interview: You’ll spend one hour with a member of our hiring team focusing on your skills, competencies and your ways of working at the same time we’ll give you time to ask more questions about the role, the team and learn more about the ClearBank culture. This will be via Teams.

Second Interview: This will be a competency-based interview with one or more members of our team.

Final Stage: You will have a final meeting with the Head of Department. This will be around 45-60 minutes.

Offer: Congratulations! Get ready to transform banking forever!

Our commitment to you as a candidate:

We will always try our best to get back to you within seven days of your interview whether you’ve been successful or not and provide you with feedback. Sometimes things take a little longer, so we may not have a decision to share but we will get it touch to let you know we need a little more time.

We’re unable to provide specific individual feedback at the application or screening stage but know that your application was reviewed and considered carefully.

We wish you the best of luck with your application and maybe we’ll be celebrating your new role at ClearBank soon!

Equal Opportunities

ClearBank is committed to ensuring equal opportunities throughout every stage of the recruitment process. ClearBank recognises that diversity is vital to the long-term success of the business in the communities and markets in which it operates. ClearBank is also a firm believer that an inclusive culture fosters greater employee engagement and collaboration.

ClearBank strives for diversity and inclusion of all forms, including (but not limited to): gender, age, educational and professional background, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable adjustments, to candidates during the recruitment process, including to individuals with disabilities. We want to create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate you. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with our Talent Acquisition team prior to your interview stage, if applicable.

The legal bit

By submitting your CV to ClearBank Limited you are providing your consent for us to use the information you provide for recruitment purposes. For more information on how we manage your data go and check out our Candidate Privacy Notice on the ClearBank website to see how we process, manage and look after your data. You are also allowing us to communicate with you by email and telephone for recruitment purposes.