Platform Engineer Linux

Job Description

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.EQs vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base andour values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.EQ BackgroundEQ is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation and credit technology. With over 5,000 employees, it supports 37 Million people in 120 countries. EQs purpose is to care for every customer and simplify every transaction, deliveredwith less of an impact on the environment.Role SummaryThis is a technical Platform Engineer role, working to support the EQ Credit Services business by deploying and managing cloud hosted platforms and applications within a dynamic, fast-moving financial technology environment.EQ Credit Services develops market leading loan management applications for the finance industry which it provides to customers on a hosted basis, primarily in Microsoft Azure. The company employs highly experienced staff most of whom have extensive knowledgeof both the finance industry and the technologies required to deliver effective, modern software solutions.This role is suited to experienced Linux & Azure Platform Engineers who already have a good level of technical understanding (including DevOps technologies) but are keen to use and develop their skills further.The role will be based in the EQ Leeds Office but allow both remote and office-based working.There is also a requirement to participate in an On Call rota and for completing some activities outside of business hours.Core Duties / Responsibilities

• Day to day management and operation of EQ Credit Services platforms across public cloud and managed hosting platforms.
• Automation of infrastructure builds, configuration, software deployments and platform management through the use of DevOps tools and approaches.
• Work collaboratively with EQ Credit Services IT teams providing day to day platform support and contributing to ongoing platform improvement activities.
• Deployment of new and updates to existing, client facing EQ Credit Services test and production SaaS platforms, working with internal project teams and external clients as required.
• Support the deployment and operation of client hosted, on-premise EQ Credit Services platforms.
• Whilst core hours are Monday to Friday 9-5.30, must also be willing to work flexibly to support out of hours activities and will be expected to join a 24x7 On Call Rota.

Knowledge & Experience

• Good technical experience and understanding of infrastructure principles and architectures.
• Good technical experience of deploying and managing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platforms across cloud environments - most notably in Microsoft Azure.
• Good technical experience of deploying and managing platform as a service (PaaS) platforms across cloud environments - most notably in Microsoft Azure.
• Good technical experience configuring and running automated software and server deployment tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Git, AzureDevOps)
• Good technical experience administering Linux Server technologies (primarily RHEL)
• Good technical experience supporting Java applications from an Infrastructure (rather than an Application Development) perspective, working with Apache Tomcat in particular
• Good technical experience configuring and running Apache Http Server as both an inbound and outbound proxy server.
• Technical experience of managing and deploying container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good technical experience using and administering Oracle Databases (11, 19 - as an infrastructure administrator)

Desirable:

• Infrastructure Encryption and Key Management - including Server / Storage Encryption, HSMs, Laptop / Desktop Encryption, SSL / TLS Configuration.
• Infrastructure and Application Monitoring platforms - such as New Relic, OpsGenie
• Web Security Proxies / Gateways
• ITILv3 and Service Management Principles
• Vendor Certifications / Approved Training Courses - e.g. Red Hat, Oracle, Cloud Providers, DevOps Tools etc

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage andcivil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks