Company:
NatWest
Location: Manchester
Closing Date: 04/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Join us as an Infrastructure Analyst in Hardware Asset Management
Hone your analytical skills as you provide support to ensure the operational health of the platform, covering all aspects of service, risk, cost and people
You’ll be supporting the platforms’ operational stability and technology performance, including maintaining any system’s utilities and tools provided by the platform
This is an opportunity to learn a variety of new skills in a constantly evolving environment, working closely with feature teams to continuously enhance your development
What you'll do
As an Infrastructure Analyst, you’ll be providing input to and supporting the team’s activities to make sure that the platform integrity is maintained in line with technical roadmaps, while supporting change demands from domains or centres of excellence. You’ll be supporting the delivery of a robust production management service for relevant infrastructure platforms.
In addition, you’ll be contributing to the delivery of customer outcomes, innovation and early learning by contributing to test products and services to identify early on if they are viable and deliver the desired outcomes.
Your role will involve:
Contributing to the platform risk culture, making sure that risks are discussed and understood at every step, and effectively collaborating to mitigate risk
Contributing to the planning and execution of work within the platform and the timely servicing of feature development requests from cross platform initiatives, and supporting the delivery of regulatory reporting
Participating and seeking out opportunities to simplify the platform infrastructure, architecture, services and customer solutions, guarding against introducing new complexity
Supporting with planning and implementing the IT hardware asset life cycle strategy, advising purchasing, finance and platform teams in strategies for managing IT hardware assets
Regularly reviewing the hardware assets to ensure accuracy and data quality
Building relationships with platform, domain and relevant cross-domain stakeholders
Making sure that controls are applied and constantly reviewed, primarily against SOX, to ensure full compliance to all our policies and regulatory obligations
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be a very capable communicator with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to colleagues, including management level. You’ll need a solid background working in an Agile or DevOps environment with continuous delivery and continuous integration, along with the ability to analyse complex data using Microsoft Excel. Along with this, you’ll have ITIL foundation as a minimum.
We’ll also look to you to demonstrate:
Proven track record within a hardware asset management team
Experience with tools such as the ServiceNow platform
Knowledge of HAM or HAMPRO in ServiceNow
Knowledge of relevant industry standard toolsets and processes to drive up customer service within an IT environment
Experience of driving solutions from inception to implementation
Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills