Company Description

We’re Together – the market leading property finance experts with an entrepreneurial spirit. Based in Cheadle, South Manchester, we’ve been established since in 1974 and have built a team of over 750 colleagues, who are passionate about supporting individuals and businesses achieve their property ambitions by making finance work for them.

We pride ourselves on our common-sense approach to lending and offer a range of mortgage and secured loan products to individuals and businesses who are typically underserved by mainstream lenders. Our customers are central to everything we do and we work hard to support them to turn challenges into opportunities which make our customers' property ambitions a reality.

We’re looking for great people from all backgrounds and experiences who love working together and putting our customers at the heart of everything we do – and that starts with our brilliantly different team of people.

Job Description

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for line management of the Platform Engineers, support of our on-premise data centre and cloud environments, and driving best practice for the adoption of modern infrastructure delivery techniques.

As a Lead Platform Engineer, we are looking for someone to:

• Provide line management and technical mentoring for Platform Engineering teams
• Curate training plans and competency frameworks
• Own of hybrid on-premise and cloud technology infrastructure
• Support platform engineers to deliver the following services:-

• Technical support for all existing and new technologies within both cloud and on-premise environments
• Implement, develop and support the desktop, including laptops & tablets, server, SAN and software infrastructure estate ensuring test and role out plans are signed off before implementation
• Monitor and maintain all environments to ensure agreed system availability , performance and security is maintained
• Provide technical knowledge, expertise and consultancy on platform engineering work
• Lifecycle management of technology platforms

• Analyse incident trend information to drive change to processes, procedures, systems and services

Qualifications

Essential

• Management of both on premise and cloud infrastructure
• Strong interpersonal skills
• A flexible and adaptable approach to working
• Experience of working in an enterprise environment
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft infrastructure platforms and tooling
• Excellent understanding of security and lifecycle management
• Experience in management of a Vmware virtualized environment
• Strong working knowledge of Backup Systems
• Strong understanding of Networking concepts

Desirable

• Usage of pipelines to manage control of production environments, including usage of Infrastructure as code platforms

Additional Information

Benefits working at Together

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Critical illness cover
• Health cash plan
• Private medical insurance
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Travel season ticket loans
• Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

Together Money embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

We care that you have a great experience with us at Together, if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to make your experience easier, please let us know and we’ll do all we can.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.