Platform Engineer

Yorkshire Building Society; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services provider in Bradford is seeking a Platform Engineer to contribute to a major technology transformation initiative. This hybrid role involves delivering engineering support across a variety of on-premise and cloud middleware technologies. The ideal candidate will have skills in webservers and CI/CD tools, along with a strong background in systems administration and scripting languages. Benefits include a generous holiday package, bonus potential, and private healthcare insurance.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Bonus up to 15%

Pension contributions up to 11%

Private medical insurance

Self-service benefits portal

Qualifications

• Experience with on-premise and cloud middleware technologies.
• Ability to implement process automation in CI/CD initiatives.
• Knowledge of cryptographic technologies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a wide range of technologies including on-premise and cloud.
• Provide 3rd line support for production environments.
• Manage IT capacity and performance across the technology stack.

Skills

Webservers (Apache, Tomcat)

Oracle Weblogic

Public Cloud (Oracle, Azure)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administration

CI/CD tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git)

Programming and scripting languages (Python, Java, Shell scripting)

Job description

Overview

Do you want to your platform engineering experience and skills to be part of a major programme of technology transformation and simplification? We have an exciting opportunity for a Platform Engineer to join our Data Platforms Technology Services team where you ll provide engineering delivery and operational support across a range of on premise and cloud middleware technologies. This is a hybrid role; remote working, and a small amount of onsite presence in our Bradford office.

Responsibilities

• Enable the business through the delivery of a wide range of Technologies (on premise and Cloud - SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
• Provide 3rd line support services for business-critical production environments (includes on- call rota)
• Proactively identify and implement process, automation and orchestration as part of CI/CD initiatives
• Provide IT capacity and performance management services across the associated technology stack, including security vulnerability and application patching
• Provide appropriate consultancy services to other Group Projects & IT teams, Business Users

Qualifications

• Webservers (Apache, Tomcat), Hardware Security Modules, Oracle Weblogic, Public Cloud (Oracle, Azure), Oracle Forms and Reports
• An understanding of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administration (RHEL 8,9)
• Experience using these tools for CI/CD (on premise and cloud) such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git and REST API Client is preferable
• Knowledge of cryptographic technologies
• Versatile knowledge and experience of programming and scripting languages such as Python, Java, Shell scripting
• The ability to embrace new technologies and provide guidance from your own experiences within the team

Benefits

• Holiday – 25 days plus Bank Holidays, option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus – an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension – contribution up to 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare – private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits – access to our self-service benefits portal for retail, hospitality, health discounts.