Platform Engineer

2 weeks ago

Inverurie, United Kingdom SWORD Full time

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving real transformation change within our clients.

We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data and business applications.

We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.


Heres what the role looks like:

The Platform Engineer has the responsibility of leading, managing, and delivering platform services that meet the present and future requirements of the business.

They support the business objectives by providing a secure, reliable, and safe infrastructure for platform and infrastructure services. This ensures the sustainability and efficiency of IS services while ensuring compliance with cyber security principles and requirements.
Key requirement of the role is to work with the Platform and Security Manager to improve ways of working, demonstrated by results such as the level of reliability of infrastructure services:
Supports the execution of the IS strategy and roadmap, including developing relevant functional objectives for the area
Responsible for leading the administration, support, installation, configuration and troubleshooting of infrastructure hardware and services by defining strategic objectives aligned with business requirements
Ensures on-going security, performance, stability, maintenance, and monitoring of the Infrastructure hardware and services
Responsible for IT vendor/partner management and delivery assurance
Provides technical guidance on infrastructure elements of IT projects
Performs system administration tasks on system platforms such as UNIX, Windows, VMWARE, and Cloud based systems that utilize the Enterprise and Cloud storage solutions
Administers existing Private, Hybrid, and Public Cloud Storage resources including Block, File, and Object level storage solutions
Requirements
Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:
Self-motivated and pro-active with a willingness to go the extra mile to achieve important goals
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to the IS workforce
Proven experience as a subject matter expert in operational infrastructure support and maintenance (including own and cloud data centres) in the oil and gas sector or equivalent, covering systems such server, storage, back-up & recovery, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS and security services
Experience and knowledge of cloud infrastructure services including tooling and security
Understanding of ITIL practices
Ability to think logically and demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience implementing packages and working with vendors
Cloud Server, Storage & backup and recovery solutions administration including in Azure and AWS environments
Automation of workflows, operational processes, capacity management, and system administration tasks using automation tools for example i.e cli, powershell, ansible, terraform
Expertise or good working knowledge of key infrastructure applications, such as Citrix, Virtualisation tools etc.
Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life.

In addition to a Competitive Salary , here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development:

We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.


Flexible working:
Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.

We cant promise to always be able to meet every request, however are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.


A Fantastic Benefits Package:

This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more.

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement.

If you dont tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience were looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience.

We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

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