Senior Platform Engineer Capacity Management

Business Unit: Technology Operations & Cyber SecuritySalary Range: GBP40,000 - GBP60,000 per annumBe the voice we need. Live a life more Virgin.Our TeamThe Platform Engineering team is part of Core Platforms within Technology Operations and Cyber Security (TOCS). Our purpose is to manage and maintain the Bank's development and release platform. This is used to deliver and operate the Bank's applications using a mixture of in-house and industry leading products.We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to bring expertise and knowledge to help us develop and support our Capacity management capabilities. We're looking for someone who loves the techy side of being a technologist but also someone who cares about delivering great customer experiences. At the heart of this role is a passion for delivering the principles of observability, monitoring and Capacity Management to enable us to take the resiliency and stability of our platforms to the next level.You'll have a keen eye for spotting opportunities to do things better using your experience and best practice. Insatiable curiosity will inspire you to learn and develop on the go as our technologies change.Here's what you'll be doing:

• Ensure current and future infrastructure growth and change can be accommodated.
• Ensure business change and impacts to existing infrastructure can be accommodated.
• Proactively capture and address infrastructure impacts in respect to capacity.
• Provide consultancy and expertise.
• Provide technical support to develop and manage the Capacity Management tooling in the estate.
• Bring expertise to support development of our Capacity Management capabilities.
• Identify, engineer, quality assure and implement technical solutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external parties to provide excellent customer service.

We need you to have:

• Experience of understanding the end-to end IT system infrastructure landscape for on-prem and Cloud.
• Experience in analysing infrastructure metrics & data to proactively reduce or avoid capacity issues and incidents from occurring.
• Industry experience in implementing and supporting Capacity Management solutions ideally with a strong technology operations background.
• Experience working with a wide range of stakeholders including business stakeholders to understand growth requirements and support business change initiatives.
• Experience of developing and integrating toolsets for the collection and storage of time series data.
• Ability to use data modelling techniques to predict future platform risks and issues.
• Technical expertise with the ability to own, diagnose and resolve platforms issues.
• Experience of delivering components of Capacity Management strategy and roadmap.
• Experience of Capacity Management tooling such as Grafana, Influx, TCO or similar.
• VMware, Linux, Windows Server experience.

It's a bonus if you have but not essential:

• Numerate, data science experience.
• Practical experience working within large multi-platform environments.
• Experience in our toolchain : Openshift / Kubernetes, Docker, GIT version control and Github usage (including direct API access), Jenkins, GoCD, Bash
• A developer mindset and automation skills to match in languages such as Python, Java or JavaScipt
• Excellent and varied shell script programming (Linux / Windows)
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary agile teams

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part-Time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.Say hello to Virgin MoneyWe're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, 'Making You Happier About Money', underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.Be yourself at Virgin MoneyOur purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

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