Fabric Platform Engineer

Wales & West Utilities Limited; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working opportunities

Pension with WWU contributions

Annual leave 25 days + bank holidays

Life insurance 14x salary

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Wales & West Utilities Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking a Fabric Platform Engineer to administer, secure and optimise the organisation's Microsoft Fabric platform, Power Platform environments and related data services. You will help ensure a secure, resilient and cost-efficient data platform supporting analytics, reporting and future digital capabilities across WWU.

The role involves establishing standards, CI/CD, monitoring and governance, with a strong focus on automation and

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer DP-600
• Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer DP-700
• Microsoft Azure Administrator certification
• Microsoft Security certifications
• Azure DevOps certifications
• Experience with enterprise data platforms
• Microsoft Fabric or Azure analytics platforms
• Platform administration
• DevOps and deployment automation
• Monitoring and operational support
• Security and governance controls

Responsibilities

• Administering Microsoft Fabric capacities, workspaces, environments and platform settings.
• Establishing platform standards, governance controls and operational processes.
• Designing and supporting DevOps, CI/CD and deployment frameworks.
• Implementing monitoring, observability and security controls for reliability and performance.
• Providing support to Data Services teams with a robust, scalable platform.
• Driving automation and adoption of engineering best practices.
• Managing platform performance and capacity utilization.
• Evaluating and implementing new Fabric capabilities and services.

Skills

Platform administration

DevOps practices

Monitoring and observability

Security and governance

Education

Degree in Computer Science/IT/Data Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Fabric Analytics DP-600

Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer DP-700

Azure DevOps

Purview

Job description

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Who are we?

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

What we're looking for:

We are looking for a Fabric Platform Engineer who will be responsible for administering, securing, optimising and continuously improving the organisation's Microsoft Fabric platform, Power Platform environments and associated data platform services.

Working within WWU's Microsoft ecosystem, you will ensure that the data platform remains secure, resilient, scalable and cost-effective, enabling analytics, reporting, operational decision-making and future digital capabilities across the organisation.

You'll be relied on to:

• Administering and managing Microsoft Fabric capacities,workspaces, environments and platform settings.
• Establishing and maintaining platform standards, governance controls and operational processes.
• Designing and supporting DevOps, CI/CD and deployment frameworks across the data platform.
• Implementing monitoring, observability and security controls to ensure platform reliability and performance.
• Supporting Data Services teams through the provision of a robust, trusted and scalable platform.
• Driving automation, operational efficiency and adoption of engineering best practice.
• Managing platform performance, capacity utilisation and operational health.
• Evaluating and implementing new Fabric capabilities and service

You can read a full job description here .

You'll need to have:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer DP-600
• Microsoft Azure Administrator
• Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer DP-700
• Microsoft Security certifications
• Azure DevOps certifications
• Operating enterprise data platforms
• Microsoft Fabric or Azure analytics platforms
• Platform administration
• DevOps and deployment automation
• Monitoring and operational support
• Security and governance controls

The following is also desirable:

• Administration and governance of Microsoft Power Platform environments
• Data Engineering
• Purview
• Utilities sector experience
• Infrastructure as Code

What you'll get in return:

• Starting salary of £62,160 rising to £71,484 when fully trained and competent (average earnings of circa £ pa based on a fully qualified operational engineer)
• Flexible working opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
• Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
• 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
• \"Choices\" flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
• Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
• Enhanced pay for parental leave
• Retail discounts and cashback scheme
• Friends & Family Discount for Three Mobile and Broadband
• Colleague recognition including Annual Celebrating Excellence Awards
• Living Wage Accredited Employer
• Award winning employer for 'Outstanding Contribution to Workplace Health and Wellbeing' and leading the industry in championing equality, diversity and inclusion
• Annual salary review
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Company Sick Pay
• In-house Occupational Health Team
• Employee Assistance Programme

The way we do things

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business - from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn't matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

Interested?

If you think you'd make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you!

You can also ask us about flexible working practices that may be available or tell us if you have any special requirements during the application process.