Senior Business Platform Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Working Hours: Standard (09:00am-17:30pm)
  • Department: Shared Technical Services
  • Office or Field Based: Office Based (Cheadle, SK8 3GW)
  • Contract type: Permanent

Company Description

 

  • Health cover and local gym access
  • Competitive base salary and generous annual bonus
  • Free access to our holiday villas and camper vans!
  • Work at a successful business, investing heavily in tech and people
  • Up to £70k base (on experience) + 20% bonus
  • Office based role from Cheadle, Manchester (please apply if you live a commutable distance away)

 

We’re Together – the market leading property finance experts with an entrepreneurial spirit. Based in Cheadle, South Manchester, we’ve been established since in 1974 and have built a team of over 750 colleagues, who are passionate about supporting individuals and businesses achieve their property ambitions by taking a common-sense approach to lending a range of mortgage and secured loan products to individuals and businesses

We’re looking for great people like you! from diverse backgrounds and experiences who love working together and putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

Job Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer, your responsibilities will include deployment, maintenance and troubleshooting of a portfolio of products services used by Together colleagues on our hybrid cloud and on premise IT infrastructure. This role works closely with other teams to deliver solutions which conform to best practice, being well architected and scalable. As a key holder of technical knowledge, you will also provide mentoring to other members of the team.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be providing:

  • Adherence to Change Management, ITIL & Operational standards
  • Provide out of hours production support as required
  • Participate in the build, migration, maintenance, and monitoring of cloud infrastructure (Azure & AWS)
  • Ensure use of our colleague services follows automation best practices relating to account provisioning, system settings, monitoring, performance, security, and availability
  • Participate in service desk support efforts and collaborate with team members and customers to resolve issues in a timely manner
  • Evaluate, on-board, Maintain, administer and co-ordinate vendor support for colleague service software and SaaS systems
  • Provide technical knowledge, expertise and consultancy on initiative work
  • Mentor other members of the team in technical and non-technical skills

Qualifications

it would be great if you had some of the following skills and experience:

  • Experience supporting the lifecycle of the applications and when issues arise
  • M365 suite (Mail, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Office Apps, Dynamics)
  • Azure Active Directory SSO / MFA configuration and integration
  • InTune & AutoPilot – environment build and application configuration
  • Windows 11
  • Printing Solutions
  • Strong understanding of security controls around server and account provisioning and access.
  • Experience supporting end users with general troubleshooting
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
  • Experience with DevOps Procedures and process and working in an Agile Environment
  • Complex problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Azure Qualifications Preferred
  • Accountable and results oriented with the ability to consistently meet deadlines
  • Strong interpersonal skills with a flexible and adaptable approach to working
  • Solid experience of developing skills of others within the team as a mentor.

 

Experience in the following would be great, but definitely not essential:

  • STORM
  • Data Storage & File Server Migrations
  • SaaS Application Implementations
  • RPA Platform (cloud & premise)
  • Azure Dev Ops – environment build and configuration
  • Support and usage of Solarwinds Service Desk

Additional Information

Benefits working at Together

  • 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
  • Buy & sell holidays
  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Matched pension contribution
  • Subsidised on-site restaurant (amazing menus!)
  • Life assurance
  • Critical illness cover
  • Health cash plan
  • Private medical insurance
  • Free access to company holiday homes
  • Travel season ticket loans
  • Ride to work scheme
  • Free local gym access
  • Local bar / restaurant discounts

Together Money embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

We care that you have a great experience with us at Together, if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to make your experience easier, please let us know and we’ll do all we can.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.