Technical Application Specialist - Kubernetes / Digital Certificates

JOB TITLE: Technical Application Specialist LOCATION(S): Leeds As Technical Application Service Specialist, you'll be working to deliver robust certificate management solutions to the organisation including complex projects and implementations, with particular focus on containerised workloads. You'll be involved with the design, deployment, management and optimisation of the digital certificate and PKI infrastructure. The role will have the opportunity to take on exciting topics such as crypto agility, shorter lived certs and quantum readiness as well as finding opportunities to optimise and maximise our certificate estate. - Provide deep technical insights and lead the resolution of complex service-related issues within our source business systems and our web technologies. Demonstrated ability to implement system changes and ensure operational stability across multiple platforms and business units. - Take full ownership of system availability, performance, and currency, accepting 24/7 accountability. Proven experience improving Run operations for high-availability systems, including automation, monitoring, and observability. Demonstrable experience of incident resolution, war room support and root cause identification. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve technical issues and challenges. Explains and prioritises problems and their possible solutions with colleagues and other partners. Leadership - Setting engineering standards and ensuring solutions align with business goals and architecture. Define, communicate, and implement the engineering service strategy and standards across the platform by focusing on methods and collaborating to embed them throughout end-to-end engineering activities. Ability to support diverse engineering change in an agile environment, with strong collaboration and communication skills. Responsible for line management, coaching, mentoring, and promoting best practices across Product & Engineering. Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too 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 26 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policiesThis is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose. With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.