Senior Platform Engineer - New Works, United Kingdom - Virgin Money

Virgin Money

Verified Company

New Works, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Business Unit:
IT Operations

Salary Range:
£ 31,200 - £ 46,800 per annum DoE

It's fair to say we've been pretty busy here at Virgin Money, transforming our team to help us disrupt the status quo but we've lot more to do, if we are to grow as a digital first bank and that includes accelerating our digital agenda in a truly agile way.

We also said 'Hello' to A Life More Virgin, our exciting new proposition offering our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose.

As a growing Digital Bank, our IT Operations team "keep the lights on" all our banking systems across all business areas:From delighting our customers with new digital features, through to ensuring all our colleagues have access to effective IT capabilitiesto deliver their best every day.

We want everyone to be happy about moneySo whether you thrive on delivering exceptional support for customers and colleagues, or have a passion for deploying complex software infrastructure changes, and anything in between,we want to hear from you

What do YOU get when you join Virgin MoneyRed Hot Rewards of course

38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if parttime).
Up to five extra paid wellbeing days per year.
A 35 hour working week.
20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
Market leading Pension.
Private Medical Insurance.
Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness.
A digitalfirst colleague experience.
Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows).

All these benefits are available to colleagues from their first day. Have we got your attention?

We're looking for a platform engineer to bring expertise and knowledge in operations to help us maintain our Operational Platform.

We're looking for someone who loves the techy side of being a technologist but also someone who cares about delivering greatcustomer experiences.

Day to day you'll be working on a prioritised backlog of work covering the breadth of the Operational Platform, both on premise and in the cloud.

You'll have a keen eye for spotting opportunities to do things better using your experience and best practiceand love to automate away drudgery.

Insatiable curiosity will inspire you to learn and develop on the go as our technologies change.

This role would suit someone early in their career with 1-3 years experience in a technology operations or development environment.

Here's what you'll be doing

Supporting and maintaining the bank's Operational Platform through an enterprise transition to Azure
Delivering technology activities in a rapidly changing environment
Identifying and delivering service improvements
Contributing to our knowledge capital in the team as you learn
Automating manual support activities to improve productivity
Engineering, validating, implementing?and quality assuring?technical solutions
Root cause analysis and remediation of issues
Working closely?with?others to?estimate work,?manage domain scope, risks and issues
Collaborating with internal and external parties to provide excellent customer service

To be successful you'll need to bring

Selfstarter willing to learn and seek answers to questions
An operations mindset focused on keeping our environments stable through curiosity and problem solving
Broad technical expertise with the determination to own, diagnose and resolve platform issues
The desire to make things easy through automation or clear documentation
A positive attitude and excellent interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders and wow our internal customers
Good analytical and problemsolving skills

We'd love you to have

IT Operations experience
A developer mindset and automation skills to match in languages such as Python, Java or JavaScipt
Experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools and ways of working
Experience of working in agile teams
Experience in our toolchain : Openshift / Kubernetes, Docker, GIT version control and Github usage (including direct API access), Jenkins, GoCD, Bash
Any experience in logging, monitoring or capacity management tools would be advantageous

We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the "To be successful" section above, but the rest is just our wish list, so please don't let that put you off applying, we'd love to hear from you

Inclusion at Virgin Money

Now the legal bit

Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us.

This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.