Infrastructure Engineer - Azure

Job Introduction

*** Remote/home working allowed. The role includes out of hours on-call *** 

Our people are everything to us. The way they deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers, for their colleagues. The way they own what they do. Their 'Why's it like that?' curiosity. How they always think of others and work together to get things done. Come and do the best work of your life alongside lovely colleagues. Come to Saga! 

And right now, we are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer experienced in Azure administration and traditional infrastructure to join our Technology Operations Team. You will be part of a team that supports and maintains not only cloud IT infrastructure, but also private cloud and traditional infrastructure, as such you will be experienced across a broad range of technologies. It’s important your foundational knowledge is strong as you’ll need to adapt depending on the challenge you face. 

Reporting into the Lead Infrastructure Technology Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering outstanding service and providing technical ownership for challenges across the technology estate.

And in return, you can look forward to all the responsibility and involvement of an integral role, providing you with a rewarding and fast-paced career with an excellent benefits package.    

If this is of interest to you then we would be keen to hear from you!

Role Responsibility

As an Azure Infrastructure Engineer your responsibilities will be: 

• Supplying enterprise business support across the public and private cloud technology estate. 
• Monitoring, automation and performance tuning of public and private cloud resources and associated applications.  
• Administration of the core enterprise shared services system maintenance procedures, this will include raising and taking ownership of processes such as change requests, problem management, root cause analysis, fault identification and resolution.  
• Ensuring Saga security policies are met, and services are securely configured in line with best practices, alongside the proactive management of Azure Secure Score. 
• Optimising public and private cloud builds, rightsizing for cost and performance where appropriate. For example, resource optimisation such as disk, compute, memory, and reserved instances.  
• Supporting the technology operations management team in developing and delivering innovative technology initiatives.  
• Performing backup and restore operations by using Azure backup and Azure site-to-site recovery.  
• Creating and configuring recovery services vault, backup vault and virtual machine backup policies. 
• Forming and customising alert rules, configure diagnostic logging, and log retention and monitor security logs by using azure monitor. 
• Creating and configuring enterprise app registration, integrate single-on and identity providers for authentication. 

The Ideal Candidate

·       Extensive experience with Azure Administration. Minimum of AZ103/4 confirmed pass. 

·       Strong technical experience with Azure security AZ500, Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions AZ700. 

·       Significant Microsoft Server technology experience. 

·       Experience of working in a public and private cloud infrastructure related role within a corporate setting, preferably in a regulated environment. 

·       Broad infrastructure understanding and ideally, Linux, storage systems, VMWare, F5 load balancing technologies and web technologies.  

·       Experience of deployment and managing compute resources including azure resource manager templates, virtual machine extensions, disk encryption, virtual machine sizes, high availability, and scale sets. 

·       Hands-on experience of configuration and management of virtual networks, including peering, VNET gateways, private and public IP addresses, user-defined network routes, subnets, private endpoints, firewalls, application gateways and VNET-integrated platform services. 

·       Practical experience of creating and configuring azure storage accounts, generate shared access signature tokens, manage access keys and configure network access to storage accounts. 

·       Ability to manage and configure Active Directory, ideally in a multi domain environment.  

·       Experience of creating and implementing Azure firewall manager policies, secure hub by deploying a firewall inside a virtual wan hub, integrate virtual wan hub with a third-party network virtual appliance. 

·       Ability to configure roles, custom roles permissions for management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources. 

·       Prior experience of creating and managing internal & external Azure identities including privileged identity management, conditional access policies, Azure AD identity protection and password-less authentication. 

·       Excellent communication skills with a strong customer-service focus.

·       Resilient, able to work methodically under pressure. 

·       Ability to multi-task and work across a range of projects and issues with various timelines and priorities.  

Our Saga Values:

• Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen. 
• Empathy – Always aware of others. 
• Curiosity – Always asking why.
• Collaboration – Always one team, the Saga team!

Package Description

The standard benefits when you join Saga include: 

• Remote working available where possible

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the choice to buy a further 5 days annual leave per year 

• Free private medical insurance after 1 years' service 

• Workplace Pension 

• AXA Be Supported 

• A range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies

About the Company

Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.

At Saga we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better.

Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity. We are an official Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our Saga Careers page.

​Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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