Senior Platform and Infrastructure Specialist

5 days ago


Newcastle Upon Tyne UK, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom Nigel Wright Recruitment Part time

Role Overview


I am seeking a Senior Platform and Infrastructure Specialist to lead technically in delivering an outstanding service to my clients shops within their retail products. The role involves transforming connectivity into a high-performance, flexible, and automated product offering to their retail colleagues. This is a full-time position based in Newcastle upon Tyne with flexible work-life balance in line with role needs.


What They Offer


  • Generous Employee Discount Scheme
  • Starting holiday entitlement of 5 weeks, increasing to a maximum of 6 weeks after 25 years of service (pro-rata for part-time).
  • Private Medical Insurance for you and subsidized for your dependents.
  • Permanent Health Insurance (income replacement scheme).
  • Share Save and Share Incentive Schemes.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Healthcare Plans.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Profit share scheme eligibility after 6 months.
  • Participation in our Management Bonus Scheme (up to 12.5% of salary, subject to performance).
  • Automatic enrolment in our pension scheme with employer contributions and tax advantages.
  • Free life assurance scheme (death in service benefit of 4 times your salary).


About You


  • Passionate about using technology to achieve business objectives and improve services.
  • Advocate for IaC and CI/CD approaches.
  • Significant experience managing large scale WAN networks.
  • Extensive experience with networking technologies (firewalls, VPN, WAN technologies, VLSM).
  • Advocate for improving security posture.
  • Strong knowledge of telephony systems (SIP telephony) and cloud platforms/services (especially networking).
  • Proactive, can-do attitude.
  • Experience building trust and effective relationships with diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience developing and leading a team, demonstrating technical leadership.


Job Requirements


  • Lead technically to enable our retail estate to engage customers via digital channels.
  • Work in an autonomous, cross-functional, agile, product-focused team.
  • Understand and empathize with our customers and colleagues.
  • Create technical solutions to improve service.
  • Foster an inclusive and diverse workplace culture.
  • Promote equal opportunities for all individuals.
  • Contribute to a fun, adaptive, and creative environment.
  • Facilitate and collaborate with multiple stakeholder groups.
  • Strive for a high-performing, self-organizing product team.
  • Drive scalability, security, automation, and resilience in our delivery.
  • Share knowledge for continual improvement of the broader product team.


Preferred Qualifications:


  • Experience with Meraki networking equipment (Meraki MX Gateways).
  • Experience working in an Agile environment.
  • Experience in a large retail environment.
  • Experience with IaC technologies (Ansible, Terraform).


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