At a Glance
- Tasks: Support and maintain critical infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Company: Join YBS, a member-focused organisation that values inclusivity and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days holiday, bonuses, pension contributions, and health benefits.
- Other info: Flexible working options to help you balance work, studies, and hobbies.
- Why this job: Solve complex problems in a dynamic environment while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in infrastructure support, scripting, and database management required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Are you a technically strong infrastructure professional who enjoys solving complex problems in business-critical environments? If so, we may have the role for you! As a Production Services Engineer, you’ll play a key role in supporting and maintaining business-critical infrastructure and systems, ensuring high availability, performance and security across our production, test and development environments, including working on a wide range of projects to enhance both the future direction and services the Society offers. This is a hybrid role, with a mix of working from home and time in the office.
About the role
- Provide 2nd and 3rd line support for complex systems across a 24x365 environment, including on call support, incident resolution and problem diagnosis.
- Install, administer and support core infrastructure, ensuring system availability, performance, security and effective backup and recovery.
- Act as a subject matter expert for elements of the technology stack, contributing to capacity planning, disaster recovery, continuous improvement and technical documentation.
- Ensure the Society's data is processed and backed up securely and that effective controls ensure data and systems can be recovered as required.
- Plan and support batch processing, data imports and exports.
About you
You’ll be a technically strong infrastructure professional who enjoys solving complex problems in business-critical environments and working collaboratively across teams.
What will you bring to the role?
- Experience in the development, maintenance and 2nd/3rd line support of highly complex automated job schedules.
- Excellent knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, system monitoring, backup and recovery, and performance management.
- Expert level skills in Bash scripting, Python and automation are desirable.
- Good working knowledge of Oracle middleware and databases, SQL, and experience producing clear technical documentation and communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Expert level skills in designing & developing high quality complex scripts.
- Detailed technical knowledge of backup and recovery technologies.
About us
At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.
Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.
Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.
About our Benefits
- Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
- Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals we’re all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
- Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up to 11% into your YBS pension.
- Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
- My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.
Ready to apply? If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, apply now to send us your application.
Want more information? If you have any questions about this role, please contact Mike Peel on careers@ybs.co.uk.
Production Services Engineer in Bradford employer: Yorkshire Building Society Group
At YBS, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that values our members and employees alike. With a strong focus on inclusivity, flexibility, and professional development, we offer a supportive work environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally. Our hybrid working model, comprehensive benefits package, and commitment to your career growth make YBS an ideal place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment as a Production Services Engineer.
Contact Details:
Yorkshire Building Society Group Recruitment Team
