Lead Infrastructure Specialist

JOB TITLE: Lead Infrastructure Specialist

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (two days) in the Bristol office.

About this opportunity

Exciting opportunity for a Lead Infrastructure Specialist to join our Accounting & Statutory Reporting Lab in the Finance Platform. You'll lead a team of Infrastructure Specialists and Technical Application Specialists within a lab, managing one or more Technical Infrastructure Products. You'll be accountable for the associated Infrastructure strategy/security strategy and technical product roadmaps across the Lab. This includes measuring and reporting effectiveness of process improvements to senior stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Have accountability and oversight of complex Infrastructure solutions ensuring alignment to best practice and group technology policies. Leading reviews on technical delivery, ensuring code quality and share knowledge.

• Lead the strategy on developing and implementing security controls to ensure compliance with policies and standards (e.g. codified guardrails) and protect against misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.

• Evaluate and recommend best practice, tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product offering. Working with vendors on product roadmaps to enhance service offerings.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other technical specialists through line management and development plans.

• Have a solid understanding of security principles and secure coding and design practices.

• Communicate effectively with team and stakeholders.

• Be accountable for IT governance on technical assets that they own through custodianship.

• Live Service support in a TRM capacity for the Lab.

What you'll need

• 5 years + Software / Infrastructure Engineering background with experience in IaaS scripting and solid skills (Windows and UNIX), technical leadership experience and desire to help coach and mentor staff and colleagues.

• Knowledge of Web Server technologies including Apache Tomcat.

• Great social interaction skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people.

• Passionate about Cloud/platform engineering and evaluating existing deployments to determine the best hosting strategy.

• Demonstrable understanding and/or experience of large, complex infrastructure upgrades.

It would be great if you also had

• Exposure to Connect Direct.

• Scripting / Infrastructure as Code experience.

• Database technologies covering Oracle on-prem/cloud, SAP HANA, SQL Server.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!