Research & Development · IT & InfoSec
As our next IT Systems and Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a key role in helping us build the UK's go-to home improvement marketplace. You'll own the foundations that keep Checkatrade running - our hybrid cloud and on-prem environments, our core platforms, and the automation that takes manual effort off the plate of teams across the business. This is a role for someone who wants to build things properly: scalable, secure, and increasingly automated, with AI doing the heavy lifting wherever it can.
Forget long lists, here's what you'll actually spend your time on:
- Administering and evolving our core platforms (Okta, Google Workspace, AI tools, Jira Service Management and Slack) as the backbone of how Checkatrade operates day to day.
- Building and maintaining secure, reliable infrastructure that keeps our teams and systems running smoothly, and stays easy for people across the business to use.
- Taking ownership of Windows Server, Active Directory and Office 365, alongside our cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or Google Cloud), managing identity, access and collaboration tools that empower our teams.
- Developing automation scripts in PowerShell, Python or Bash, and building workflow automation using tools like Okta Workflow and Zapier, to improve system efficiency.
- Bringing an AI-first mindset to how we manage and automate IT: spotting where AI tooling and agentic workflows can replace manual effort, not just scripting the same process faster.
- Delivering improvements through a proper project lifecycle: scoping, planning, stakeholder sign-off, delivery and