Platform Engineer in South Shields

The Platform Engineer is responsible for the stability, security, resilience, and operational integrity of Barbour's core business platforms. These platforms underpin critical business processes, data flows, reporting, and operational decision‑making across the global organisation. The role focuses on platform reliability, controlled change, and service continuity, ensuring systems are supportable, recoverable, and scalable in line with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Location: Based at head office in South Shields, with an expectation of 4 days in the office and 1 day of home-working.
• Platform Reliability & Operations: Proactively identify and address performance, capacity, and availability risks while leading incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Engineering Standards: Design, implement, and maintain secure, resilient platform configurations in line with vendor best practices and internal policies.
• Change & Quality Control: Ensure platform changes are safely reviewed, tested, and deployed, including rollback and recovery approaches.
• Security & Governance: Implement secure access controls using least‑privilege principles and support compliance with standards such as GDPR and PCI‑DSS.
• Environment Management: Promote consistency between development, test, and production environments using source control and structured deployment methods.
• Monitoring & Recovery: Ensure effective logging and alerting is in place; define and test backup and recovery processes and contribute to disaster recovery planning.
• Collaboration: Work closely with application, data, and BI teams to ensure platforms meet business needs and maintain documentation to reduce single‑person dependency.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) and relevant certifications in Microsoft platform administration (Azure, SQL Server) or infrastructure technologies.
• Platform Expertise: Demonstrable experience supporting business‑critical platforms, specifically the administration and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Data Integration: Experience building and maintaining data integration pipelines using SSIS and a working knowledge of SSRS and Power BI.
• Technical Proficiency: Experience with scripting and automation (PowerShell, SQL, Python) and familiarity with SQL code quality tools like SQL Prompt.
• Operational Excellence: Proven ability to diagnose complex incidents, manage controlled change processes, and implement technical security controls.
• Communication: Ability to explain technical risks to non‑technical stakeholders and work effectively within cross‑functional teams.

Benefits

• Discretionary Company bonus scheme
• Staff discount
• Staff shop
• Healthcare cash plan
• 25 days holiday as standard increasing with length of service plus bank holidays
• Access to training and development activities to support your career development
• Free onsite parking
• Subsidised canteen
• Operate hybrid & flexible working
• 4pm finish on a Friday
• Wellbeing support
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Reward & Recognition Program
• Length of Service Rewards

Note: In the event that a sufficient volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.