Senior Platform Engineer

e.surv Chartered Surveyors; Kettering; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading salary

Company car options

Private healthcare

Pension scheme top-ups

RICS CPD paid

Job summary

e.surv Chartered Surveyors in Kettering, UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to provide 3rd line support for cloud services, including Azure IaaS/PaaS, IaC, and DevOps pipelines. You will modernise Azure services, manage AD/AAD, and work with IT assets in a collaborative team.

Role requires deep Azure expertise, IaC implementation, and strong networking knowledge. This is a full-time, on-site position located in Kettering with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing and supporting Azure Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, Networks)
• Proven ability to build infrastructure with IaC
• Deep experience with Active Directory, GPO, and Azure AD
• Experience building pipelines in Microsoft DevOps
• Good exposure to Remote Access solutions (VPN, Cloudflare)
• Knowledge of anti-virus solutions (BitDefender)
• Understanding of networking protocols and TCP/IP
• Solid backup/restore knowledge including Azure ASR
• Escalation point for support teams
• OS knowledge: Windows, Linux, iOS
• Process improvement in Incident/Problem Management

Responsibilities

• Design, plan and implement cloud infrastructure services
• Drive modernisation of services in Microsoft Azure using IaC
• Provide day-to-day 3rd line support for IaaS, storage and networks
• Support IT services like Active Directory, File & Print, Exchange Online
• Lead root-cause analysis and problem resolution
• Collaborate with technical partners and promote production deployments
• Maintain IT assets in the asset register
• Keep services updated and secure; manage end-of-life plans

Skills

Azure Cloud

Infrastructure as Code

Active Directory / Azure AD

Microsoft DevOps pipelines

Networking concepts (TCP/IP)

Backup & Restore (Azure ASR)

3rd line support

Root cause analysis

Tools

Azure DevOps

VPN / Remote Access (Cloudflare)

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Senior Platform Engineer - Kettering, UK

Kettering, UK Permanent Full-Time JobID 1558

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The opportunity

Trading since 1989, e.surv Chartered Surveyors is the UK's number one residential surveyor and the largest provider of property risk expertise and residential surveying services. To put it into numbers, we complete more than one property inspection every 12 seconds and employ over 600 surveyors from Land’s End to John O’Groats and Northern Ireland. This gives us the flexibility to offer nationwide coverage combined with invaluable local knowledge.

We're part of the LSL Property Services Group PLC which includes household names Your Move and Reeds Rains as well as the mortgage network PRIMIS. We work with lenders, intermediaries, social housing entities and estate agents in addition to private customers.

Role Purposes

The role is responsible for providing 3 rd line support for cloud services, such as email, IaaS, PaaS, IaC, storage, DevOps and network environments.

Main Accountabilities

• Responsible for the technical design, planning and implementation of cloud infrastructure services to support e.surv’s strategic projects and technology roadmap
• Be pivotal in e.surv’s adoption of Cloud technologies, playing an active role in modernising services in Microsoft Azure, including the use of IaC.
• Provide day-to-day 3rd line support of the IaaS, storage and network infrastructure
• Provide day-to-day 3rd line support of IT services and tools such as Active Directory, File & Print services, and Exchange Online.
• Provide efficient and effective escalation path for junior members of the team
• Own day-to-relationships with extended technical partners in the management of IT services, working in a collaborative and transparent culture
• Promote technical implementations into production
• Ensuring IT assets are maintained in the IT Asset register
• Ensure supported services are kept updated, secure, and plans in place prior to End of Life
• To lead any root cause analysis and resolution of problems. Own and drive problem management for the relevant technical areas.

Knowledge and Expertise

Essential:

• Experience in designing, implementing and supporting Azure Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, Networks)
• Experience in building infrastructure services with Infrastructure as Code
• Deep experience of supporting Active Directory, GPO, and Azure AD.
• Experience of building/managing pipelines within Microsoft DevOps
• Good exposure of supporting Remote Access Solution e.g. VPN, Cloudflare
• Experience of anti-virus solutions (e.g BitDefender)
• Understanding of networking protocols (IP routing) and principles of network traffic, TCP/IP and networking technologies
• Solid understanding of Backup and Restore technologies, including Azure ASR
• Experience acting as technical escalation point for support teams
• Good knowledge of operating systems (Windows, Linux, iOS)
• Good Understanding of process improvement including Incident and Problem Management

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Private healthcare, pension scheme top ups, retail vouchers, Income Protection and Critical Illness cover

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Keep your professional development on track with paid RICS membership and fully covered CPD requirements

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Become a true partner in our growth with access to SAYE and BAYE share investment plans

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Our people are at the core of everything we do. We invest to provide efficiencies, enabling our surveyors to spend more time sharing their expert advice. We make a conscious effort for continuous growth and development of our people.

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