Principal IT Systems Engineer

This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role for an experienced engineer who combines deep infrastructure expertise with modern cloud and platform engineering capabilities. You’ll play a key role in shaping and supporting our enterprise technology platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, acting as a trusted technical authority and escalation point across the business., * Act as the senior technical authority and escalation point across infrastructure, cloud, identity and platform services.

• Provide technical leadership and deputise for the IT Systems Team Manager when required.
• Drive the design, resilience and continuous improvement of on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex technical issues and major incidents.
• Influence engineering standards, architecture decisions and platform best practices.
• Develop automation, Infrastructure as Code and reusable platform capabilities.
• Provide technical oversight of third-party suppliers and solutions.
• Mentor engineers and champion secure, resilient and automation-first ways of working.

• Extensive experience in Infrastructure, Systems or Platform Engineering within a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong expertise in Azure and modern cloud technologies.
• Advanced automation and Infrastructure as Code skills, including Terraform, PowerShell and Ansible.
• Deep knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering, CI/CD and observability.
• Experience influencing technical direction and engineering standards.
• Broad infrastructure knowledge across Windows, Linux, networking and enterprise platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable

• Financial Services or regulated environment experience.
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Intune and SCCM.
• Hypervisor or hyperconverged infrastructure technologies.

In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days’ annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and much more.