Principal Engineer – Site Reliability & Integrated Testing

About the role

ASB is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and ownership of its end‑to‑end integrated testing environment. In this hybrid hands‑on and strategic position you will shape architecture, guide multiple squads, and ensure reliable delivery of testing services across on‑premises and cloud platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Engage regularly with stakeholders to analyse and translate technical requirements.
• Design and implement both Azure cloud and on‑premises environments, delivering end‑to‑end solutions.
• Collaborate with service and application squads to host and integrate their workloads.
• Lead the creation of test data, including data masking strategies.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and support continuous delivery across Azure and on‑prem environments.
• Own the technical health of the integrated testing environment and drive process improvements.

Required profile

• Extensive experience with private cloud architecture, infrastructure management and Azure services.
• Strong background in both relational (SQL) and non‑relational (NoSQL) databases.
• Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Enterprise Server, Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy) and source control (Git, TFS).
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, BICEP) and automated deployment processes.
• Ability to create Kibana dashboards and alerts for monitoring health and exceptions.
• Experience working in Agile and DevOps environments with a solid understanding of cloud adoption frameworks.
• Desirable: familiarity with ASB applications and banking domain.

Required skills

• Azure
• Terraform
• BICEP
• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Git / GitHub Enterprise Server
• Octopus Deploy
• CI/CD pipeline design
• Kibana
• SQL (relational databases)
• NoSQL (non‑relational databases)
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code