Platform & Infrastructure Specialist

3 weeks ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Greggs Full time

About the role
- This is a full-time role, however flexibility in this will be considered
- We know that having a work-life balance is important, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role
- The base location for this role is**_ _**Innovate House in Balliol Business Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12 8EW

What you'll do
- Contribute to the architecture, design and implementation of security tooling across our systems, including both on premise and cloud hosted platforms
- Support new service implementation to ensure security, monitoring and management standards are built in from the ground up.
- Lead on the design and implementation of new automated management and monitoring platforms and approaches, with the support of other specialist teams and partners.
- Respond to security incident reports to ensure a proactive and preventative approach to risks.
- Create and implement platform specific remediation plans for security risks.
- Support the wider team in general infrastructure management operations, including handling incidents and supporting the implementation of new cloud platforms.

About you
You will fit right into this role if you:

- Have a solid understanding of public cloud technologies, and have strong technical knowledge in on premise infrastructure, including virtualisation technologies and Windows architecture.
- Are passionate about cyber security, have technical knowledge of security systems and vulnerability/security incident remediation, and understand the need to balance cyber risk against business functional requirements.
- Are aware of the most common tools and approaches to automation in public cloud, and know the concepts around Infrastructure as Code approaches and toolsets.
- Are a passionate technologist, able to confidently communicate technical change in a non-technical way to key stakeholders
- Possess strong service skills and able to highlight and drive service improvements using technology
- Can demonstrate a continual approach to development and learning of new technology.
- Are confident in ensuring challenge to status quo and challenging existing working practices
- Strong problem solving capabilities - both when resolving issues and incidents arising from project change, and in using technology to solve business challenges
- Able to engage and work collaboratively with other teams to make improvements to processes and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Are supportive of an inclusive culture - recognising and valuing that difference is good
- Want to develop and are ready to work alongside some great people and have lots of fun on your Greggs journey

About Greggs
Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun What makes Greggs so special is our culture - the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We're hard-working, but above all else we're family; and it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views.

Vacancy Information
We have a fantastic opportunity to join the Platform and Infrastructure Services team at Greggs and really help to shape our future journey in modernising our core technical infrastructure using public cloud technologies, focusing primarily on the security, automated management, and robust monitoring of our platforms.

This role is part of a recently formed team within the wider Platform Services team, and is a unique opportunity to help create a highly automated, secure, and flexible new technical platform for our organisation.

We can offer you:

- 25 days (5 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays), plus 1 additional floating day
- Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 10% of your salary
- Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our employees who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year
- Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants
- Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme
- You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages
- Defined contribution management pension scheme
- Death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary
- Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products
- Share save schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits
- Career progression and learning and development
- Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with finan



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