Senior Systems Engineer

About Homeprotect

We founded Homeprotect on a simple principle – to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry.

We’re experts at insuring people who want to build or buy a unique property, renovate, rent a home or leave it unoccupied. We can cover people who travel a lot, run a business from home or even collect rare treasures. We protect people who love living in a listed building, having a view of a river or sunbathing on a flat roof.

We can do this because our smart tech enables our customers to get an instant, online quote to cover a huge range of complex needs and our UK customer support teams are on hand to provide information and support when only a real person will do.

Our insurance has already empowered hundreds of thousands of people to protect their homes and the things they love. But we’re not content with being the leading provider of what’s called ‘non-standard’ insurance. We believe there’s no such thing as ‘standard’. We’re all unique and we all deserve home insurance designed with our individual needs in mind – something our combination of real people and smart tech enables us to do.

Our simple promise? Whoever you are and wherever you live, with Homeprotect we’ve got you covered.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our people. We’re a small but perfectly formed team, made up of insurance industry specialists alongside a diverse mix of technologists, data scientists and customer and marketing champions from all sorts of industries and backgrounds. We all bring our individual expertise, an appetite for innovation and a shared ambition to empower people to protect their homes and the things that they love.

Working in a fast-paced environment where change happens regularly is how we do things. But we also recognise that you’ll do your best work when you have the right balance, and that’s why we have fully embraced hybrid working, and in some cases, fully remote working, giving our teams the flexibility to choose the right location and working hours for them.

We prefer to focus on the outputs of their work, not where they complete it. That said, there will be times when getting together in one location makes sense, but day‑to‑day, our teams have the freedom to decide where to work and we trust that they’ll make the right decision balancing the business needs and their own preferences.

Most companies think their culture is great, however at Homeprotect, we have the proof to back this up. We have been recognised externally as a Great Place to Work for the last six consecutive years

Sound good? Read on to find out more about joining our team…

We’re looking for a high‑performance Senior Systems Engineer to join a small, high‑impact team and play a key role in our IT infrastructure. Working alongside the Lead Systems Engineer, you’ll monitor, maintain, and develop our environments across on‑premises and cloud. You’ll drive change and champion continuous improvement across all aspects of our infrastructure.

The majority of your day will be spent safeguarding our production environments and handling third‑line incidents and requests. You will also deliver project work to improve the platform and add new capabilities. On occasion, you may provide user support on an as‑needed basis.

You’ll ensure all work is carried out in line with our information security and governance processes.

You’ll work with Dev Ops and automation technologies, applying these principles to all new infrastructure projects.

Given the nature of the role, occasional travel to our local data centre will be required.

We would love to hear from people with the following skills and experience:

• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure at medium to enterprise scale
• Strong Windows Server and Microsoft identity experience (Domain Controllers, on premises Active Directory, Entra , SSO, Exchange, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP)
• Strong virtualisation experience (VMware vSphere/Hyper V)
• Strong practical experience with Power Shell or shell scripting
• Experience with GCP and/or other major cloud providers
• Good Linux administration experience…