Platform Engineer Linux - Leeds, United Kingdom - Equiniti

Equiniti

Verified Company

Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

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 complementary services 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.

EQ Background
EQ is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation and credit technology. With over 5,000 employees, it supports 37 Million people in 120 countries.

EQ's purpose is to care for every customer and simplify every transaction, deliveredwith less of an impact on the environment.

Role Summary

This role is suited to experienced Linux & Azure Platform Engineers who already have a good level of technical understanding (including DevOps technologies) but are keen to use and develop their skills further.

The role will be based in the EQ Leeds Office but allow both remote and office-based working.

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

Core Duties / Responsibilities

Day to day management and operation of EQ Credit Services platforms across public cloud and managed hosting platforms.
Automation of infrastructure builds, configuration, software deployments and platform management through the use of DevOps tools and approaches.
Work collaboratively with EQ Credit Services 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 Credit Services test and production SaaS platforms, working with internal project teams and external clients as required.
Support the deployment and operation of client hosted, onpremise EQ Credit Services platforms.
Whilst 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 infrastructure principles and architectures.
Good technical experience of deploying and managing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platforms across cloud environments most notably in Microsoft Azure.
Good technical experience of deploying and managing platform as a service (PaaS) platforms across cloud environments most notably in Microsoft Azure.
Good technical experience configuring and running automated software and server deployment tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Git, AzureDevOps)
Good technical experience administering Linux Server technologies (primarily RHEL)
Good technical experience configuring and running Apache Http Server as both an inbound and outbound proxy server.
Technical experience of managing and deploying container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Good technical experience using and administering Oracle Databases (11, 1 as an infrastructure administrator)

Experience or knowledge of the following would also be beneficial:

Infrastructure Encryption and Key Management
including Server / Storage Encryption, HSMs, Laptop / Desktop Encryption, SSL / TLS Configuration.
Infrastructure and Application Monitoring platforms such as New Relic, OpsGenie
Web Security Proxies / Gateways
ITILv3 and Service Management Principles
Vendor Certifications / Approved Training Courses e.g. Red Hat, Oracle, Cloud Providers, DevOps Tools etc

What We Offer (UK ONLY)
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Save For Your Future

Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%

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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.

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Health and Wellbeing

Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.

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Employee discounts