AddressWe are proud to be One Team at East Midlands Railway (EMR). We are passionate about keeping people safe, delighting our customers, doing the right thing and putting customers at the heart of our sustainable railway for the East Midlands. With over 2,300 employees, our people are the reason we are so successful and the IT Infrastructure team make a crucial contribution to this. Eight times accredited as a Top Employer, we value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We have an exciting opportunity to work at #TeamEMR as an Office 365 Infrastructure Engineer.
At EMR we want to proactively embrace diversity across our workforce and recognise that we are under-represented in terms of females and ethnic minority groups. We’re therefore taking positive steps to promote a positive and inclusive culture; we welcome applications from those that identify with these groups to better represent our communities.
We're looking for someone to join EMR as a Office 365 Engineer based at our Derby office
About the role
This is an exciting time to join a business that values and invests in IT. We’re looking for a customer-focussed SharePoint and Office 365 developer to provide a reliable and flexible support service as part of EMR’s evolving Digital Workplace Strategy.
You’ll be passionate about driving the adoption of SharePoint and Office 365 solutions and the continuous improvement of sites and applications using new technologies. Working collaboratively with end user customers and vendors, you will provide guidance, training and insight to the business to help EMR get the best from delivered 365 services.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Maintaining and evaluating existing solutions, implementing strong supporting governance and providing ideas for improvement
- Keeping up to date with new practices in Microsoft APIs and platforms
- Carrying out support, installation and maintenance activities to cloud provided services, implementing custom solutions to meet business requirements, including:
- Building custom business applications with out-of-the-box features, extending with custom scripts and coded applications
- SharePoint-based solutions for Collaboration portals, Enterprise Content Management, Workflows and Enterprise Search
- Planning content types and deploying custom lists and libraries.
- Developing, deploying and maintaining client side rendering scripts and SPFx components.
- Authoring and executing PowerShell scripts
- Reviewing, implementing and maintaining search services
- Implementing designed solutions including testing and standard documentation, providing ongoing guidance and support
- Responding to support requests to resolve operational problems within IT Service Level Agreements
- Investigating technical problems and faults in cloud provided services, liaising with vendor support to understand root causes and find resolutions
About you
You will be an experienced ‘hands-on’ SharePoint developer, with proven experience creating SharePoint features and solutions. With your knowledge of Microsoft Cloud Technologies, including Office 365, you will be able to perform support in a Windows environment. You will also have an understanding of:
- Best practice information architecture, managed metadata, content types, enterprise search, custom refiners, and search-driven applications
- Virtualisation technologies, including Azure
To be successful in this role, you will be:
- A great all-round communicator, able to collaborate with end users and vendors to identify, explain, and resolve complex problems
- Adaptable, able to work independently and as part of a team to achieve project milestones and deadlines
- Motivated to learn new technologies quickly and efficiently
- Organised, comfortable with multi-tasking and working to deadlines
- Customer-focussed
- A creative technical problem solver, with the ability to understand business challenges and implement ‘out of the box’ solutions
Experience with Azure (VMs, App Services, Hybrid Connections) and Office 365 development would be an advantage.
As well as a competitive salary, we’ll also offer you:
- An excellent defined benefit pension scheme
- Up to 34 days’ holiday per year
- Flexible working hours
- Free First Class duty travel on the EMR network
- Free standard leisure travel on the EMR network and Train Operating Companies under Transport UK & LNER
- 75% discount on national leisure travel (inc partner and dependants)
- Friends and Family discounted tickets on the EMR network
- Various training opportunities
- Employee benefits portal with access to generous discounts, Cycle 2 Work Scheme …and many more!
EMR has a hybrid working policy which is applicable for this role. This means the role can be based at home 2-3 days per week and on site 2-3 days per week. Should you wish to work full time on-site this is also an option.
How do I apply?
