Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Liverpool
Salary: £42,000 +
Job Type: Full Time
Working hours: Monday to Friday covering hours 08:00 to 17:30, (1 week in 4 early start). Participation in an Out of Hours On-Call rota, (1 week in 4)
About Acorn Insurance:
We have almost 40 years of experience helping people secure competitive car, taxi, van, motor trade and home insurance, across the UK. As a specialist insurance provider, we offer a wide range of competitive insurance policies that can are tailored to our customers unique insurance needs. In 2020 we were in the Sunday Times top 30 Profit Track companies for private companies with fastest growing profits.
What you will be doing:
As Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will be an SME for technologies within our infrastructure as well as within business projects requiring technical guidance and support.
Excellent communicator able to clearly understand, solve and educate the teams.
Promoting technical excellence within the team ensuring the highest level of technical quality, leading knowledge transfer of new solutions into the team
Work with the other technical leads, architects, project team and external technical resource to design and document end to end, secure, and scalable, performant Infrastructure solutions driving appropriate best practice and standards.
Participate in technical evaluation of products within the infrastructure domain and participate in the deployment and implementation of the infrastructure technologies.
Work with the development, Cloud and DevOps teams to understand development roadmaps and assist in technology choice.
Participate in the design of best of breed solutions, exploiting industry best practice.
Contribute to the development of technology roadmaps.
Work closely with the Infrastructure Services Manager and peers to deliver cost effective solutions in line with the IT strategy & roadmap whilst implementing appropriate control mechanisms.
Lead capacity planning exercises across infrastructure platforms using load testing plans and tools.
Be continually aware of enhancements available within the current infrastructure.
Review vulnerability and penetration test results, advising, preparing, and performing remediation actions.
Work with security function, including the Data Protection Officer to ensure polices are maintained and audited, including but not limited to; PCI/DSS, GDPR, CE+ and other standards are adhered to.
What we’re looking for:
Minimum 3 years’ experience in similar Infrastructure role in similar sized organisation, with a minimum of 1 year’s hands on cloud experience.
Proven and able to articulate technical hands-on experience with cloud platforms, ideally Azure in both design & support capacity.
Previous involvement in designing and leading implementation of infrastructure solutions.
Awareness of DevOps, pipelines, and CI/CD methodology to support infrastructure deployments.
Experience in a web-enabled, live e-commerce environment with skills to include web site & services implementations, customisation, and troubleshooting.
Experience of working on multi-tier, high volume, transactional system platforms and an understanding of the challenges and management.
Experience with use of infrastructure auto-deployment techniques; PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform etc.
Awareness of web application development techniques and tools, XML, .Net framework, IIS, Apache and CI/CD methodologies.
Experience of the development of high & low-level designs and documenting technical solutions.
Working knowledge of ITILv3.
Why Acorn Insurance?
Acorn want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. So, what can we offer you as an employer? Some of the benefits you will receive include:
Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement starting at 31 days and potentially increasing to 35 days per year depending on grade & length of service (including bank holidays).
- Additional Buy & Sell Holidays
- Company Sick Pay Scheme
- Company Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
- Perk Box Online & High Street vouchers and discounts
- Fresh fruit Deliveries twice a week*
- £250 bonus for every new colleague you recommend to the business
- Free monthly Café Nero Coffee
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free eye test vouchers and a contribution towards the frames
- Clearly defined progression paths with training and support
- National vocational qualifications
- Free self-development & qualifications via Magpie Learning
- A comprehensive Mental Health support network including:
- A wide Network of Mental Health First Aiders 4 free counselling sessions
- CBT programmes available with a trained Therapist Mentor
- Unlimited access to a councillor 365 days a year, 24/7
- Free Hot Drinks*
- Dress Down Days
- Regular Employment Engagement including ongoing competitions with fantastic prizes
- Charity fundraising events
*On selected sites
All roles are subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard.
