Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard-to-reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement.

FX and cross-border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross-border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to, from, and across often hard-to-reach markets.

We are currently based in Sutton and we are expected to move to our new offices, in London Bridge in May 2024 

Primary Responsibilities

The engineer’s primary responsibility will be to design, implement and support the network and network security environments.

Areas of main focus will be:

• Proactively maintain the currency of the software/firmware/devices is maintained.
• Work with the team to design and implement secure network capabilities.
• Ensuring best practices are adopted and implemented.
• Proactively monitoring the network for performance issues and providing recommendations on remediation.
• Identify and escalate risks in the environment.

Responsibilities Include

• Resolving and troubleshooting incidents
• Responsible for network related change requests as well as representation for these changes.
• Liasing with the security team and other stakeholders for various BAU projects to implement new capabilities and resources.
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• On-call shift pattern (1 week out of a month)

• Experience with F5 and Checkpoint devices.
• Configure and install various network devices and services (e.g. routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)
• Working experience with OSPF, BGP, IPSEC, DNS, SSL, Load Balancers
• Experience working in a hybrid-cloud environment (AWS preferred)
• WAN/SD-WAN/SASE technologies.
• CCNP or higher
• Azure/AWS Associate qualifications
• Proven track record of working in a Financial technology industry

The engineer will have general working knowledge of:

• Strong holistic knowledge of network and network security infrastructure.
• Demonstrated knowledge of working on multiple projects and responding to shifting priorities.
• General cloud experience (AWS/Azure)
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in working with JIRA/Agile methodologies.

• Hybrid working
• Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
• Life Assurance – 4 times annual salary
• Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical, Dental and Audiology
• Discretionary Bonus
• Competitive Annual Leave
• 2 Volunteering Days
• Benefit Hub