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We are seeking a Platform and Infrastructure Specialist to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract. As Platform and Infrastructure specialist aligned to our Retail Connectivity products you will support Greggs in delivering an outstanding service to our shops, by transforming our connectivity to shops into a high performance, flexible and automated product offering to our retail colleagues.
We can offer you:
Our Greggs Employee discount Scheme is very generous, offering you up to 50% off our food
Your holiday entitlement starts with 5 weeks, in addition to bank holidays, which increases with service up to a maximum of 6 weeks after 25 years’ service. (Pro-rata for part time)
Other benefits include:
Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants
Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme
Share Save and Share Incentive Schemes
Employee Assistance Programme
Healthcare Plans
Cycle to Work Scheme
After 6 months service you may be eligible for our profit share scheme
You will be invited to participate in our Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 10% of your salary, subject to the Company meeting certain performance criteria.
You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages
The Management Pension Scheme is supported by a free life assurance scheme. This is a death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary
Other benefits include:
Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants
Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme
Share Save and Share Incentive Schemes
Employee Assistance Programme
Healthcare Plans
Cycle to Work Scheme
About the role
- This is a full-time 12 month fixed term role based at Greggs Innovate House, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 8EW
- We know that having a work-life balance is important, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role.
- The base location for this role is Greggs Innovate House, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Ideally, you’ll live within one hour travel of this area
What you'll do
We are looking for passionate people that love working as a part of a team to join us on our journey.
You will have a proactive, can-do attitude and enjoy contributing towards an adaptive, fun and creative environment. You will be capable of working cross functionally and facilitating and collaborating with multiple stakeholder groups.
You will be a lifelong learner and will enjoy joining us on a continuous journey of learning and improving as we strive to become a high-performing, self-organising product team, applying adaptive planning techniques to deliver innovative solutions to business problems.
You will care about delivering outstanding solutions to everyone using our Retail Connectivity products, by ensuring forward facing technology approaches are used to drive scalability, security, automation and resilience into our delivery, while also sharing your knowledge with others to ensure continual improvement of the broader product team.
About you
You will fit right into this role if you:
Are passionate about using technology to best achieve business objectives and improve services, and be able to advocate for IaC and CI/CD approaches to drive this forward
Have experience of managing large scale WAN networks across a large number of locations.
Can demonstrate extensive experience of networking technologies and approaches, including firewalls, VPN, WAN technologies, and VLSM
It would be advantageous if you had any of the following:
Experience of working in a large retail environment
Experience of IaC technologies, such as Ansible and Terraform
Experience working with Meraki networking equipment, in particular Meraki MX Gateways
Experience of working in an Agile environment
About Greggs
Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun! What makes Greggs so special is our culture – the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We're hard-working, but above all else we're family; and it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us! We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views.
