Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer
Birmingham – Hybrid (3DPW in office)
Competitive salary
VIQU have partnered with a leading professional services organisation seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Core Services and Platforms team. This senior, hands-on role will focus on the ownership, support, and evolution of enterprise Microsoft platforms, covering database, web, cloud, identity, and reporting services, while providing technical leadership in a regulated, high-availability environment.
Key Responsibilities of the Senior Platform Engineer:
- Provide third-line support for business-critical platform services
- Own and support SQL Server, reporting infrastructure, SharePoint (on-prem and cloud), IIS/web platforms, Azure services, and identity services including SSO and MFA
- Proactively monitor, optimise, and maintain platform performance, availability, capacity, load balancing, and disaster recovery
- Lead complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and incident resolution
- Deliver code releases, platform upgrades, deployments, and infrastructure changes in line with change and service management processes
- Act as technical lead, coaching engineers and coordinating BAU and project delivery
- Work closely with application teams, business services, and third-party vendors
- Participate in an on-call rota supporting core infrastructure services
Key Requirements of the Senior Platform Engineer:
- Proven experience owning enterprise Microsoft platform services
- Strong hands-on expertise across SQL Server, SharePoint, Azure Cloud Services, IIS/web infrastructure, reporting platforms, and identity management (SSO and MFA)
- Experience operating at third-line support level within complex, global environments
- Strong understanding of performance tuning, availability, monitoring, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
- Experience delivering upgrades, deployments, and DevOps-style changes under formal change control
- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor others, and act as a trusted adviser to stakeholders
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Senior Platform Engineer
Birmingham – Hybrid (3DPW in office)
Competitive salary