Platform Engineer Windows - Leeds, United Kingdom - Equiniti

Equiniti
Equiniti
Verified Company
Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementaryservices to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success.

We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services.

There has never been a better time to join EQ.


Role Summary


Suited to experienced Windows Platform Engineers, with good level of technical understanding (including DevOps and Cloud technologies) who are keen to use and develop their skills further.

Located in the EQ Leeds office.

There is also a requirement to participate in an On Call rota and for completing some technical activities outside of business hours.


Core Duties/Responsibilities

  • Day to day management and operation of EQ Credit Services platforms across public cloud hosting platforms
  • Automation of platform infrastructure builds, configuration, software deployments and platform management through the use of DevOps tools and approaches.
  • Work collaboratively with EQ IT teams providing day to day platform support and contributing to ongoing platform improvement activities.
  • Deployment of new, and updates to existing, client facing EQ test and production platforms, working with internal project teams and external clients as required.
  • Core hours are Monday to Friday 95.30, must also be willing to work flexibly to support out of hours activities and will be expected to join a 24x7 On Call Rota.

Knowledge & Experience

  • Good technical experience and understanding of platform infrastructure principles and architectures.
  • Good technical experience of deploying and managing cloud platforms most notably in Microsoft Azure.
  • Good technical experience configuring and running automated software and server deployment tools (e.g. Terraform, ARM / Bicep, Windows Powershell, WindowsDSC, Octopus Deploy, Puppet, Git, AzureDevOps)
  • Good technical experience administering Windows Server technologies (e.g. windows server, AD, GPOs, RDP, Terminal Services, Windows Clusters etc), covering Server 2012 platforms upwards.
  • Technical experience of managing and deploying container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Good technical experience using and managing Microsoft Sql Server (as an infrastructure administrator).
  • Experience of working with 3rd party service providers to design, deploy and manage joint IT service solutions.
  • Good knowledge of information security practices within the financial services IT industry.

Beneficial:


  • Encryption and Key Management including Azure Encryption, Azure Key Vault, HSMs, SSL / TLS Configuration.
  • Monitoring and Alerting platforms such as New Relic, Azure Monitor, OpsGenie, Pager Duty
  • Load Balancing Technologies / Application Delivery Controllers such as Azure Application Gateways and Load Balancers
  • Network and Security Appliances and Technologies such as Alert Logic, Qualys, Dell Secureworks
  • ITILv3/4 and Service Management Principles
  • Vendor Certifications e.g. Microsoft Azure certifications, Microsoft MCSA / MCSE, Microsoft, approved / certified training courses

What We Offer

Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%


All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.


Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary.


Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at high street stores through EQ Wins Platform.


Flexible Benefits - Ability to purchase wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.


Time Off - 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity.


Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
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