Senior Technology Analyst (Elastic Stack)
Location: Glasgow – hybrid working
Salary: Starting from £48,400 (On Call Allowance)
Permanent, Full Time
Help us create a better future, quicker
Our Corporate function is responsible for providing support services for all other ScottishPower businesses. We know people are central to building a better future, quicker and we are seeking new talent to join our team.
The daily operation of IT Systems is critical for all ScottishPower business systems and services. This role requires a deep understanding of Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats), BMC Product suite, and NetScout. The responsibilities include designing, implementing, and managing tools to ensure supporting infrastructure and networking to applications are proactively monitored.
What you’ll be doing
Working with user communities and business stakeholders across our business, you’ll establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues across UK & Global departments and suppliers. Working with monitoring tools to ensure supporting infrastructure, networking and applications are proactively monitored enabling any potential service impacting issues to be highlighted at the earliest opportunity with remedial actions identified and implemented with automation where possible for self-healing.
This ensures our Operational Support services remain high quality and are delivered in line with our standard methodologies and frameworks.
You’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the health and performance of IT systems. Here are some of their key tasks:
Develop and Implement Observability Frameworks: Design and deploy strategies to monitor system performance and reliability
Integrate Monitoring Tools: Set up and manage logging, monitoring, and tracing tools to provide visibility into applications and infrastructure
Data Analysis: Analyze logs, metrics, and traces to identify trends, anomalies, and performance bottlenecks
Optimize System Performance: Continuously monitor and optimize system performance to ensure high availability and reliability
Telemetry Data Management: Collect, process, and visualize telemetry data to gain insights into system behaviour
Proactive Issue Resolution: Identify and address potential issues before they impact users
Documentation and Reporting: Maintain detailed documentation and generate reports on system health and performance
What you’ll bring
Proficiency in Observability Tools with deep working knowledge of Elastic.
Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud-native applications and platforms.
Scripting Languages: Knowledge of scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation.
Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Data Analysis: Ability to analyze logs, metrics, and traces to troubleshoot and optimize system performance.
Experience of ITIL processes (ITIL V3/ V4 Foundation Certified as a minimum)
Experience of ServiceNow
What’s in it for you
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
36 days annual leave
Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
Payroll giving and charity matched funding
Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
Life Assurance (4x salary)
Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
Why ScottishPower
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.
ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].
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Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
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What We Do
With more than 180 years of history, Iberdrola is today a global energy leader, the leading wind power producer and one of the largest electricity companies in the world in terms of stock market capitalisation.
We have been committed to clean energy for more than 20 years with the objective of exceeding 52,000 MW of renewable capacity by 2025.
The group supplies energy to nearly 100 million people in dozens of countries, has more than 600,000 shareholders, a workforce of more than 42,300 employees.
We are leading the energy transition to a sustainable model through our investments in renewables, smart grids, large-scale energy storage and digital transformation to deliver the most advanced products and services to our customers.
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