Senior Cloud Engineer

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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Group Technology

Permanent | Full Time

White City, London | Hybrid

Hiring range: £80,000 - £85,000

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it's not surprising that you'll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we're at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact's felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don't just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

Your impact sends ripples.

The team

Technology underpins everything we do. It's why we're able to create great content and deliver it to our viewers. It drives new commercial opportunities. And it makes communication and collaboration easier than ever.

In a fast-changing world, we not only make sure our systems work effectively but our Technology teams are spearheading the transformation to a digital-first business. There's never been a more exciting time to join our team.

The role

The Enterprise Platforms Platform Engineer will help evolve the Enterprise Platform, in line with changing business requirements for corporate application hosting.

This exciting, broad role has responsibility for the development, implementation and continuous improvement and operations of the Enterprise Platforms product set, within Central Technology. The technology stack includes but is not limited to the following corporate hosting environments and platforms:

AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Enterprise, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Enterprise, GCP Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ,Windows workloads, SQL workloads, Linux workloads, Azure VMWare Solution (AVS) in Azure, Citrix, Jira, LogicMonitor, Puppet, PowerShell.

The role-holder is responsible for the provision and maintenance of an efficient, stable and secure platform for corporate application hosting, on premise and in the public cloud.

• Develop the Enterprise Platforms product set, including automation with IaC and configuration management tooling to drive efficiency and to solve problems related to infrastructure operations.
• Operational responsibilities in AWS, Azure, GCP, Windows & Linux both in-hours and out-of-hours
• Provide consultancy to business teams and application teams
• Work on multiple new demand and change requests from the business
• Build long-term, meaningful relationships with application teams and other central technology teams
• Codify central infrastructure components, including observability, backups, AD and networking
• Support MSPs and other 3rd parties with complex technical tasks
• Continuously improve the customer experience of the Enterprise Platform toolset through measurement, education, training and stakeholder communication.
• Develop platform solutions and complex automation on Windows, Linux using Puppet, PowerShell, BASH, Ruby
• Be security conscious and make security a top priority in all engineering work
• Be operationally focussed and make reliability and supportability a top priority in all engineering work
• Have a firm eye on cost. Work with the Enterprise Platforms Product Manager and Head of FinOps to identify and execute on cost saving opportunities.
• Use appropriate service management tools, project management tools and communications tools to ensure that all stakeholders are kept up-to-date on progress of tasks
• Proactively monitor industry trends relating to the provision of platform services to the business, as well as the tools and processes to support them. Apply forward thinking in relation to which services are most relevant to ITV, how these should be managed and how they could be most effectively used by the ITV application teams. Pitch any resulting ideas to the Product Owner and Senior Engineers

Skills you'll need (minimum criteria)

• Extensive hands on engineering experience of delivering a variety of infrastructure and platform products and services to meet wide-ranging business needs and within a variety of business settings
• Experience of delivery and operation of multiple products end-to-end and working within an outsourced/managed service IT operating model
• Experience of engaging with a range of stakeholders including senior management - liaising between technical experts and non-technical or business stakeholders
• Experience of Scrum or Kanban-based agile delivery approaches, tools and measurement is essential
• Experience of deploying and managing Windows & Linux server operating systems
• Experience of platform engineering good practice, including orchestration, automation and software configuration management tools (ideally Puppet) is essential
• Experience of AWS cloud infrastructure toolsets & expert knowledge of PowerShell

Desirable experience:

• Experience of Azure & GCP cloud infrastructure toolsets
• Experience of implementing operating systems management toolsets for Windows and/or Linux platforms
• Experience of deploying and managing MS SQL databases

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

• Understand the importance of customer feedback and regular measurement to inform solutions improvements and further development
• Being a great team player and not afraid to gets hands on providing high quality services to business teams who reply on the platforms
• Proven execution of projects / or product release
• Excellent attention to detail, communication & influencing skills and a curious & resilient mind
• Passionate about technology with a keen interest in developments in cloud and automation
• Highly collaborative, open and honest & a strong start who enjoys a fast paced environment

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we'll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.

Find out more about applying with a disability.

* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

More about our benefits

Closing date: Friday 12th July 2024

"Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We'd encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested."