Platform Engineer | S3 | Milton Keynes / Hybrid

An exciting opportunity has been made available for a Platform Engineer to join Santander within the T&O Infrastructure and Service Operations organisation, where you will provide leadership and coordination of staff and services within the IT Lifecycle (Obsolescence) Management team.

This role is part of the IT Risk Portfolio team which is under the Director of Operational Services. As the main hub of information regarding the resilience of our IT infrastructure, we monitor the health of the Bank's applications at a micro and macro level to ensure the degree of obsolescence is maintained within the Banks risk tolerance appetite and appropriate remedial actions are taken to maintain this position.

The purpose of this role is to provide leadership across a subset of functional / business areas managing a specific production system / platform and their ongoing activities or objectives.

The role holder will also lead more complex plans to develop compatible IT Infrastructure systems in line with organisational strategies.

The difference you'll make :

• Coordinating the effective and timely management of hardware, operating systems and third-party software installed on server platforms


• Ensuring that the most appropriate internal quality procedures, standards, and specifications that are the most appropriate for each technology are in place and looks to offer solutions to complex problems and situations


• Planning and organise relevant technology improvements, defining specific platforms' strategy and project / resources requirements


• Providing technical development and oversight for the implementation of infrastructure solutions, specialising in the design, and development of systems and infrastructures based on preferences and industry standards


• Contributing towards design improvements that allow for more efficient support of the environment, applications, and customers


• Managing the deployment, maintenance, and upgrade paths of the infrastructure, also ensuring you research and identify the most appropriate options for the delivery infrastructure, We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.


By working this way we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we're happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

This role is based in Milton Keynes and our current expectation is at least days in an office every week.

If you're interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team.

If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :

st Stage Technical Interview this will a min technical interview with one of the team

nd Stage A one-hour formal interview where we will ask both technical and competency-based questions. This can be done virtually or face to face depending on your situation.

If there's anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Inclusion

At Santander we're creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we'll reward you.

As well as a salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus


• We put % of salary into your pension, even if you don't contribute yourself. We'll pay in up to .% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer


• days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to days after yrs service, with the option to purchase up to contractual days per year


• £, car allowance per year


• Company funded individual private medical insurance


• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments


• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover


• Share in Santander's success by investing in our share plans
  
  Experience in System programming or system administration, with a focus on reliability, availability, and scalability


• Knowledge and experience within or more of these technologies; Database Technology, Operating Systems, Web and WAS Technology or Messaging Software


• Previous experience in technology deployments or large scale upgrade project which included Operating systems, database, Web and WAS technology


• Incident management, being able to trouble-shoot problems and seek appropriate solutions whilst doing OS, DB Web and WAS upgrade


• Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way


• Solid knowledge and experience in MS Excel, ability to analyse data and manipulate information accordingly coupled with excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels


It would also be nice for you to have :

• A strong understanding of API orchestration, combined with languages such as Python to implement automated solutions and interactions between core management services


• Strong project management and analytical mindset that will be able to drive both the IT Risk Portfolio team and the broader Product team(s) to ensure focus on the obsolescence remediation project


• Knowledge and skills within cloud technology is desirable in addition to one of the listed technologies that is fundamental to have


• Large scale data centre assets to Cloud migration or migration of workload (OS. DB, Web WAS) from one data centre to another data centre
  
  Interested in part-time, job-share or flexible working? We want to talk to you!