Senior Platform and Infrastructure Specialist (Cloud Datacentre)

We are seeking a Senior Platform and Infrastructure Specialist to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract, focusing on cloud datacentre services. This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Datacentre to Cloud product team, supporting Greggs in continuing to modernise our technical services by migrating services into cloud based scalable and agile platforms, and implementing robust ongoing management and provisioning processes, ensuring resilience, scalability and security for all of our internally hosted services.,

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About the role

• This is a full-time based 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.
  
  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 defining and delivering an outstanding service to our internal colleagues, particularly but not limited to other IT and Business Change colleagues. You will do this by using your expertise to drive a holistic approach to migrating, managing, and defining services hosted within our cloud platform, ensuring robust design and implementation, in a repeatable way, to support business uptime, security, cost and performance requirements.

About you

You will fit right into this role if you:

• Are passionate about using technology to best achieve business objectives and improve services.


• Have expert knowledge in server management, infrastructure and best practice.


• Have extensive experience in public cloud technology, and in deploying hosted services into public cloud, particularly Azure.


• Have experience of operating in a hybrid data centre environment, or supporting migration from on premise services to cloud.


• Have strong knowledge around Infrastructure as Code approaches and concepts.


• Have good working knowledge of public cloud good practices and architectures, such as cost management approaches, monitoring approaches and landing zone architecture.


• Have a proactive can-do attitude and will enjoy contributing towards an adaptive, fun and creative environment


• Have demonstrable experience of knowledge sharing with, and coaching of , colleagues to drive technical upskilling.


• Have experience of building trust and highly effective working relationships with a diverse range of technical and none technical stakeholders at all levels of the organisation


It would be advantageous if you had any of the following:

• Direct experience of using IaC technologies, particularly Terraform.


• Experience of Azure DevOps, particularly Azure Pipelines.


• Experience of Azure networking technologies and approaches


• Experience of working in an Agile environment
  
  25 days (5 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays), plus 1 additional floating day


• Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 12.5% of your salary


• Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our employees who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year



• Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants


• Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme


• 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


• Defined contribution management pension scheme


• Death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year's salary



• Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products


• Share save schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits


• Career progression and learning and development


• Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with financial, relationship, work-related and wellbeing issues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Including a mobile app providing a range of wellness content on physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing


• Perks and savings, such as digital gift card discounts, online cashback, in-store and online coupons and lifestyle offers