Senior Platform Engineer - Connectivity SRE in Salford

The Reliability Engineer will continually improve the service delivered by the M&S Connectivity team, while ensuring commercial value and effective oversight.

Working within the Connectivity team, the role supports the lifecycle of projects and operations, ensuring that solutions are crafted, implemented and operated in line with agreed Service Level Indicators and Objectives.

The role requires a blend of engineering, operational and analytical capability to identify issues, assess root causes and implement appropriate actions that improve service performance. This includes delivering short‑term remediation alongside longer‑term objectives and builds that support continuous improvement.

What’s In It For You

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third‑party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry‑leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

• Lead the availability, reliability, and continuous improvement of the Connectivity platform.
• Proactively identify, lead, and resolve service issues using monitoring, telemetry, and data‑driven insights.
• Build strong partner relationships and collaborate across teams to deliver effective end‑to‑end solutions.
• Drive operational excellence through process optimisation, automation, and effective service transitions.
• Contribute to platform strategy, roadmap development, and major incident resolution while supporting wider business objectives.

Who you are

• Strong expertise in ITIL, ITSM tooling, service reporting, and continual service improvement.
• Shown experience across enterprise networking technologies, including Azure, Fortinet SD‑WAN, Juniper Mist, and Zscaler.
• Highly analytical, with the ability to diagnose sophisticated issues using multiple data sources and perspectives.
• Effective communicator and collaborator, able to translate technical concepts for diverse partners and teams.
• Committed to delivering reliable, high‑quality services through automation, process optimisation, and operational excellence.

Everyone’s Welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re redefining, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re redefining how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. M&S strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you’re benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.