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| # Senior Platform Support Engineer | |
| Delivering technical services to support, maintain and improve live services across the public sector. | |
| ## About the role | |
| As a Senior Platform Support Engineer at Made Tech you will work collaboratively within Managed Service teams onboarding new services without disruption, deliver enhancements, provide ongoing maintenance and support services, as well as continuously improving both digital services and service operations using DevSecOps practices and data-driven user analytics. As a senior member of the team you will have the opportunity to leverage your experience to coach and develop more junior team members, as well as drive improvement across the service line. | |
| Operating within a managed service environment, you will maintain a range of digital services, data services, and platform offerings. You will maintain application management procedures and documentation and manage application enhancements through to live operation. | |
| You will be a part of Made Tech’s client facing consultancy team, acting as a point of contact for queries from our clients and providing advice relevant to your area of expertise. You will have the opportunity to influence our clients' solutions, and help to continuously improve services used daily by members of the public. | |
| ## Competencies & Experience | |
| The list below describes specific competencies and behaviours that we will discuss with you during the interview process. | |
| ## Skills and experience | |
| ### Must have | |
| * An in depth knowledge of Azure and products such as Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Load Testing and Azure Database for PostgresSQL | |
| * Familiarity with at least one of the following programming languages: .Net, React, Java, Ruby on Rails | |
| * Can articulate the benefits of Infrastructure as Code, including a familiarity with working with Terraform | |
| * Experience of providing 2nd, 3rd and/or 4th tier technical support using ITIL methodologies and terminology | |
| * Hands on experience of designing and implementing application and platform monitoring and alerting solutions to identify and investigate live service issues, as well as auditing existing solutions and prioritising improvements | |
| ### Nice to have | |
| * Experience of working with in cross functional teams, that make use of agile techniques and principles | |
| * Managing your work in ServiceNow and/or ZenDesk, as well as configuring ITSM tolling to enable reporting and SLA tracking | |
| * Experience of working in a consulting environment | |
| * Experience working in teams that apply a swarm model of incident management | |
| * A working knowledge of other cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP | |
| * Demonstrate knowledge of SOLID principles, Object-Oriented programming and Test Driven Development (TDD) | |
| ## Responsibilities and competencies | |
| Don’t worry - we don’t expect you to tick all of these when you join, we will work together to define learning and development objectives that help you meet these competencies as part of your progression in the team. | |
| ### Incident and problem management | |
| * Ensuring that all requests for support are dealt with according to a set standards and procedures, and suggesting ways to improve those processes over time | |
| * Delivering resolutions to live incidents within SLA, prioritising service availability | |
| * Taking the lead in problem investigation/root cause analysis and delivering resolutions that prevent recurrence and minimise technical debt | |
| * Providing out of hours support where necessary - shifts managed via on-call rota | |
| * Interpreting the client security standards and best practice such as NCSC guidance, then implementing process and tools that allow the team to respond to security incidents in compliance | |
| * Providing guidance to users and 1st line support agents — including enhanced levels of support following new/updated software releases | |
| ### Service monitoring and maintenance | |
| * Design monitoring and dashboarding solutions that are aligned to the needs of users and client strategic priorities | |
| * Automating the monitoring of application performance including the setting up of cloud and application level monitoring tooling | |
| * Implementing ongoing improvements to monitoring, logging and the continuous review of alerting thresholds | |
| * Updating documentation such as knowledge base articles, playbooks and service definitions | |
| * Implementing processes that maintain application data, backups and ensuing appropriate recovery processes are in place to meet data retention needs | |
| * Using user monitoring, performance data and service dashboards to inform continuous improvement backlog items and prioritise technical debt removal | |
| * A detailed knowledge of database installation, integration, configuration, maintenance, security, performance and capacity management. | |
| * Able to leverage that knowledge to support planned changes and resolve live incidents. | |
| * Maintaining infrastructure, ensuring compliance, upgrading live services and right-sizing with a focus on both cost and sustainability | |
| * A detailed understanding of DNS management including records, zones, security, performance and load balancing. Able to diagnose and resolve DNS issues and develop processes that reduce manual effort required for DNS management | |
| ### Application and platform development | |
| * Implementing application enhancements including the development of new code and sourcing existing code from open code libraries | |
| * Implementing application enhancements to improve business performance, applying a holistic product lens to services | |
| * Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines including automated testing supporting multiple environments | |
| * Ensuring application code complies with data protection requirements, security regulations and policy standards as mandated by either the client or the team lead | |
| * Collaborating with technical subject matter experts (SMEs), security operations and user research to ensure user-centred high quality outcomes | |
| * Estimating time and effort required for software development, and reviewing the quality of estimating to fine tune forecasting over time | |
| * Applying TDD, ensuring appropriate test coverage and evidencing the outcomes of testing | |
| ### Service onboarding and transition | |
| * Taking part in proactive knowledge transfer activities with incumbent suppliers | |
| * Code review and quality analysis including the review of complete services, including the implementation of code scanning tooling | |
| * Reviewing and improving technical documentation such as architecture overviews, deployment process definition and incident resolution runbooks | |
| * Onboard new services onto an IT Service Management tool, including configuring users and integrating alerting tools | |
| ### Learning and development | |
| * Being an active member of Made Tech’s communities of practice, sharing knowledge and learning from others | |
| * Investing in yourself and your skills by adapting to the needs of our clients and learning about emerging technologies that are relevant to the services we provide | |
| * Taking a proactive interest in the work being done across Made Tech and supporting colleagues where possible e.g. providing inputs to case studies based on your project experience or pairing with someone in another team | |
| * Be a mentor and coach to others across the service line, sharing expertise and taking an active role in the professional development of others | |
| ## Work perks and benefits | |
| Take a look at the Benefits & Perks section of the Made Tech Handbook to see what we can offer you. | |
| ## Salary and location | |
| We adopt a hybrid approach and anticipate that most roles will spend a mixture of time within our offices, client sites and working remotely. We have offices in London, Bristol, Manchester, and Swansea and our clients are across the UK. | |
| We practice salary transparency when it comes to advertising roles at Made Tech. Every role we publish will include the salary range in the job ad, please do refer to that. | |
| For any internal candidates, we are currently reviewing and refreshing our pay bands and will be sharing those internally first. They will then be placed back here again by the end of July 2025. | |