Platform Engineer, TalkTalk
12 Month FTC
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Office located in Salford Quays, Manchester
Broadband, mobile & TV provider
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Broadband, mobile & TV provider
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
Office located in Salford Quays, Manchester
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring simple, affordable, reliable and fair connectivity to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Proven expertise with Microsoft Azure (networking, security, storage, compute)
- Strong proficiency in Databricks with hands-on Scala (Spark) and PySpark
- Deep experience with Terraform for Azure resource deployment and governance
- Hands-on with Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML, agents, service connections)
- Understanding of Azure Active Directory / Entra ID, RBAC, and service principals
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging in Azure (Log Analytics, Monitor, Application Insights)
- Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills
- Experience in large-scale enterprise environments and agile delivery
What the job involves
- This role is offered on a 12 month FTC
- As a Platform Engineer at TalkTalk, you’ll be at the heart of our Azure-based data platform, building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and automation that underpin our Databricks Lakehouse and data services. You’ll enable our engineers and analysts to deliver reliable, secure, and high-quality data products at scale
- The Data Engineering team is positioned in the Delivery business unit of the IT function within the Data & Automation department, sitting alongside the Report Engineering, Data Governance, Data Migrations and Automation teams
- Data Engineering is a perfect blend of Data Engineers and QA Engineers that are renowned for their forward thinking and trail blazing. Exceptionally talented, supportive and personable, it’s an area that’s challenging, provides excellent growth opportunities and rewarding
- Design, build, and maintain Azure infrastructure with Terraform (IaC) as the single source of truth
- Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate deployment of workspaces, Unity Catalog, networking, and security
- Work with Databricks (Spark/Scala, PySpark) to support ingestion frameworks, data processing, and platform-level libraries
- Implement secure connectivity (VNET injection, Private Link, firewall, DNS, RBAC)
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise platform reliability and performance
- Partner with architects, engineers, and product teams to enforce best practices in governance, security, and automation
- Document infrastructure, processes, and standards for wider engineering adoption
Our take
TalkTalk is a connectivity provider serving 4 million customers. Originally founded as a subsidiary of Carphone Warehouse, it was demerged as a standalone company in 2010. TalkTalk boasts a number of firsts in the industry; including launching free calls between its customers, providing a whole-home filtering service, and bringing WiFi 6 router technology to the UK.
In hopes of optimising the experience of its broadband customers, TalkTalk has partnered with DZS, which is a leader in access and optical edge infrastructure and cloud software solutions. TalkTalk will leverage the market-leading technologies of DZS, including DZS CloudCheck and Expresse Cloud EDGE, towards reducing call escalations, minimising equipment replacements and shortening call handling times.
In 2022, TalkTalk acquired rival SSE from Ovo Energy, in order to bolster its customer portfolio. Rumours of its own acquisition by Virgin Media O2 followed that same year, though the deal did not come to fruition. The company also agreed a partnership with Telecom Acquisitions, the manager of a number of broadband ISP brands and products, which includes TalkTalk securing the controlling stake in the company.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Company pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Income protection and life assurance
- We all lead different lives and like to work differently, so whether it's working from home or starting and finishing your day later, we’ll give you the flexibility you need to do your best work
- We offer all of our people free TalkTalk Fibre, TV and Phone (you’ll be helping us make them what they are, so it’s only fair that you get to enjoy them)
- We run lots of wellbeing initiatives throughout the year to support your financial, physical, mental and lifestyle wellbeing
- We offer 18 weeks’ fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks’ fully paid paternity leave when the big day arrives. The same applies for adoptive leave too. And, if you’re a grandparent, we’ll also give you a day off to spend time with your new grandchild
- You’ll get the chance to join one of our employee networks, such as Talk Pride, Women in Tech, Wellbeing or Neurodiversity communities. From arranging events like monthly coffee mornings to providing support, our communities are there for you
- We want to recognise the people that go above and beyond, and display our company values — we do that in a number of ways, from a simple thank you, to experience days
- Plus, you’ll have your birthday off, fully paid, every single year!
Company HQ
Salford, UK
Leadership
James Smith
(CEO)Previously CEO at PXC, CFO at Capricorn Energy, Director at Rothschild & Co and was the Vice President of Merrill Lynch International.
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