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Platform Lead - Networks

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
3 to 6 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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About easyJet

easyJet is Europe’s leading airline offering a unique and winning combination of the best route network connecting Europe's primary airports, with great value fares and friendly service.

easyJet flies on more of Europe’s most popular routes than any other airline and carried more than 96 million passengers in 2019 – more than 16 million travelling for business. The airline has over 300 aircraft on nearly 1000 routes to more than 150 airports across 35 countries. Over 300 million Europeans live within one hour's drive of an easyJet airport.

easyJet aims to be a good corporate citizen, employing people on local contracts in eight countries across Europe in full compliance with national laws and recognising their trade unions. The airline supports several local charities and has a corporate partnership with UNICEF which has raised over £14m for the most vulnerable children since it was established in 2012.

The airline takes sustainability seriously and is committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions flying by 2050. Together with its partners, including Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Cranfield Aerospace Solutions and Wright Electric, easyJet is working to accelerate the development of zero-emission aircraft technology. In the meantime, the airline is offsetting the carbon emissions from the fuel used for all its flights, at no additional cost to its customers, and only supports projects that are certified by Gold Standard or the Verified Carbon Standard, internationally recognised certification schemes. In addition, easyJet continues to renew its fleet, operate efficiently, and aims to fill most of its seats. Since 2000, over a 20-year period, the airline reduced its carbon emissions per passenger, per kilometre by over one-third, and aims to bring this down further.

Innovation is in easyJet’s DNA – since launching over 25 years ago, easyJet changed the way people fly to the present day where the airline leads the industry in digital, web, engineering and operational innovations to make travel more easy and affordable for its passengers.

The airline was named as Britain’s Most Admired Company of 2020 in the transport sector, retaining the leading position for a second year running. Britain's Most Admired Companies study is the longest-running annual survey of corporate reputation in the UK.

TEAM

This role resides in our Network & Infrastructure Competency Centre where we deliver our core infrastructure capabilities to easyJet Airline Company Ltd and all subsidiaries. Specifically, as part of our “platform design” team, we onboard, standardise and build guardrails for new services to use with both DevOps delivery mechanisms. We are a tight knit team of professionals, working seamlessly with our colleagues across IT and business functions in a fast paced, competitive environment. We get a lot done and we’re proud of our contribution to this incredibly successful business.

JOB PURPOSE

The Platform Lead for Networks is responsible for managing easyJet utilising its European wide network platform by managing a team of engineers and architects to evaluate, design, govern and onboard into operations emerging technologies. We aim for our platforms to effectively enable business aligned IT services and Technology Teams to deliver at pace whilst maintaining a secure, reliable, and efficient Network and Hosting platform.

You will be working in a team following agile delivery to standardise easyJet’s approach to providing high performing network and security services based including the rollout of a wider implementation of SD-WAN. You will do this by enabling and guiding your team to perform testing and evaluation of suitable technology to use through implementation of proof of concepts, whilst documenting standards and implementing guardrails to ensure compliance. We follow the concept of “The Internet as your Network” and require you to drive the change to this methodology across all our Management & Administration staff in our corporate campus and home working as well as our Crew and Engineering communities throughout our 30 bases. This role will require you to be capable of working cross functionally with teams following a DevOps methodology. You also be involved in hands-on engineering and architecture to support your team.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • Operating as a platform owner, being responsible for managing technology used on our network estate.
  • Support a Network strategy in collaboration with Technology Managers and Enterprise Architecture.
  • Guide and support your platform engineers and technical architects to build, evaluate, and deploy network and security services with technology or capabilities new to easyJet.
  • Collaborate with our information security teams to ensure our services are deployed in accordance with security policies and keep current with latest security trends.
  • Oversee CSI for our existing use of technology; innovate and explore better ways of deploying & managing our network estate.
  • Ensure all delivered services are well documented, re-usable, tested and solutions operate performing well with all code/configuration adhering to best practice.
  • Steer technical architects on the overarching sizing, capacity planning and forecasting on behalf of easyJet (working with internal and external teams), driving optimisation of cost and capacity.
  • Keep up to date with knowledge of innovation in the IT industry that could be beneficial to easyJet’s infrastructure strategy.
  • You will be evangelist of Public Cloud, the Internet as our Network, Software Defined networking and ‘Infrastructure as Code’ methodologies.
  • Actively participate in the IT communities, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice.
  • Contribute to financial and budget planning and cost management for assigned technology services

Requirements of the Role

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED

  • Demonstratable experience with managing a European wide or global network environment of an on-premise datacentre and Amazon Web Services (AWS) multi-region estate; ideally with additional knowledge of Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) too.
  • A complete grasp of the capabilities, benefits and shortfalls with the major IaaS and PaaS offerings from AWS, particularly focused around ntwork technology.
  • A complete grasp of Cisco based switching and routing.
  • Good experience with SD-WAN design and deploying, again focused around Cisco and their Meraki product suite.
  • Experience with managing the network performance with monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Cisco DNA, Cisco ISE and AppDynamics.
  • Demonstrable experience of the design and implementation of SASE product suites.
  • Proven experience designing, implementing and managing multiple firewall technologies including Cisco and Palo Alto.
  • Experience in managing Network Access Controls (NAC) as well as Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS).
  • Has a understanding of Microsoft Active Directory and LDAP based authentication and TACAS+.
  • Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and the capabilities the products provide – ideally with Akamai.
  • Exposure to developing an “Infrastructure as Code” enterprise environment using key tools such as Terraform and AWS Cloud Formation and being comfortable with code repositories based on GIT (GitLab / GitHub).
  • A solid grasp of ITIL processes.
  • Expert knowledge of network load balancing, including AWS native ELB/NLB/ALB and F5 Big-IP.
  • Be confident in presenting technical designs and documents to both an IT and business audiences.
  • Proven technical management experience with a practical knowledge of IT technologies and working practices.
  • Experience in an agile IT development environment working with architecture, development and testing teams with sound understanding of SDLC.
  • Define and maintain the roadmap for assigned applications, products and technology partnering with other IT, business and supplier stakeholders.

BENEFITS

  • Competitive base salary
  • Up to 20% bonus
  • 25 days holiday
  • BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
  • 7% pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Flexible benefits package
  • Excellent staff travel benefits

We’re Europe’s leading airline flying more than 82 million passengers to more than 33 countries! But we’re not just known for our size and innovation, we’re known around the world for our incredible staff who are at the heart of everything we do.

Aerospace & Defence
Luton
8,000 employees