Senior Associate Platform Engineer

Job Description

Qualifications Scotland is Scotland’s national awarding body, designing and delivering trusted qualifications that recognise knowledge and skills. Based in Scotland, the qualifications we create are valued and used worldwide.

We’re looking for Senior Associate Platform Engineer to join the Platform Services team.

As Senior Associate Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting the provision, administration and maintenance of Qualifications Scotland’s security infrastructure, through the deployment of security technologies and controls such as antimalware software, firewalls/web application firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, backup software, and vulnerability scanning. To do this you must have experience in the following specific duties:

• support the resolution of security issues and incidents reported through monitoring and SIEM tools and/or raised by colleagues
• support, implement and maintain remediation action required from vulnerability management sources
• maintain and monitor firewall, IDS/IPS and antimalware products
• implement baseline security standards across various IT infrastructure

You must also have the following skills and experience:

• understanding of administering virtual environments, specifically Nutanix
• understanding of Azure cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code and automation
• knowledge of Cyber Essentials
• knowledge of backups and disaster recovery
• good understanding of either, or both, Linux or Windows operating systems
• knowledge of networking technologies and protocols
• familiarity with following change management processes and working in an ITIL environment
• educated to SCQF level 8 ideally in an IT discipline and/or demonstrate equivalent relevant experience of working in a similar IT role and/or be able to demonstrate direct relevant experience for this role

We offer a fantastic benefits package in return for your talent. This includes:

• a career-average pension scheme
• employee wellbeing and health assistance programmes
• development opportunities
• 27 days annual leave and 14 days public holiday

If you’ve got the skills, knowledge and experience for this role, please apply.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. As a certified Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the competency requirements of the role.

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