JOB TITLE: Senior Technical Application Specialist – Secrets Management
SALARY: £72,702-£88,858
LOCATION(S): Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
We're looking for a Senior Technical Application Specialist to take ownership of Secrets management and cryptography services, with a focus on platform engineering and DevOps practices.
The role is centred on the need for building and operating secure, scalable and automated services that are easy for engineering teams to consume.
Participate within the Secrets Management feature team, working in close coordination with product, engineering, platform, and application teams to embed cryptography seamlessly into modern delivery pipelines and architectures.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design, build and operate enterprise Secrets Management services.
- Develop self-service capabilities that enable secure management and consumption of secrets.
- Implement automation using CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
- Design and support integration patterns for applications consuming Secrets Management services.
- Enable adoption through automation, APIs and standard integration patterns.
- Contribute to service protection, incident response, problem management and continuous improvement.
Why join us?
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.
What we’re looking for:
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault or comparable Secrets Management technologies.
- Strong understanding of secrets lifecycle management, including creation, rotation, revocation and governance.
- Experience designing and operating security-critical enterprise platforms.
- Strong automation skills using CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
And any of these would be great:
- Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.
- Monitoring, observability and service reliability practices.
- Internal developer platforms and self-service onboarding.
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you
We want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the sure the assessment process works for you.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
