Platform Engineer ( Leeds Building Society )

Welcome to Leeds Building Society. We’ve helped people to save and own their homes since 1875, and our purpose remains – putting home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

We make this happen through our passionate team who demonstrate our behaviours, are eager to develop and push themselves into new challenges.

You'll help operate secure, resilient solutions and increase the pace of change through automation. As we follow a hybrid model, you'll help ensure workloads can move between cloud and on-premises environments according to suitability and cost.

• You'll build and improve processes that automate the build, test, deployment and maintenance of the technology stack.
• provide Level 2 incident support; investigate production issues and root causes; monitor solution performance; and identify opportunities to streamline releases and improve customer experience.
• You'll also manage cloud-based risks, create support knowledge, contribute to peer reviews and testing, and work with developers, colleagues and third-party suppliers to ensure solutions follow established processes.

• Significant experience delivering technical change and IT production support across cloud (Azure) or on-premises infrastructure environments
• Good understanding of infrastructure technologies, DevOps principles, and Windows and Linux operating environments
• Demonstrable expertise across several relevant technologies, such as Active Directory and Entra, Azure Functions or other serverless/PaaS services, VMware or Hyper-V, and DNS, DHCP and TCP/IP network services
• Experience with configuration and infrastructure automation tools such as PowerShell, Terraform or Puppet, together with an understanding of zero-trust security principles
• A collaborative, self-starting approach with strong analytical and pragmatic problem-solving skills; experience in a financial institution or another regulated environment is preferred

• Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office
• Annual bonus of up to 12%
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%
• 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme
• Colleague Mortgage and Saver products
• 2 days' volunteering per year