Cloud Engineer

Description:

The successful candidate will become part of a diverse team of systems engineers, astronomers, and computer scientists developing advanced solutions to support world class science and deliver service for processing data from the world's largest radio telescope running on a Kubernetes platform. You'll be working in a team of Cloud engineers, in collaboration with National and International colleagues to help deliver, operate and support the UKSRC and international cloud infrastructure and HPC resources as part of the development of the SKAO project.

What you will have

• Hands on experience in deploying and administering Linux operating systems.

• Familiarity of Ansible & Terraform for configuration management & IAC.

• Experience of virtualization technologies and cloud architecture, preferably but not limited to OpenStack.

• Basic knowledge of scripting languages primarily with Python & Bash.

• Experience of CI/CD principles, ideally but not essentially using a GitOps approach, using Helm & Kustomize.

• Development lifecycle tools, such as Git.

• Working with Agile methodologies & Jira.

Some desirable, but not essential, skills we are looking for

• Use of monitoring and reporting tools, such as Prometheus and Grafana.

• Experience of GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or FluxCD.

• Knowledge of containerization technologies using Kubernetes & Docker.

• Experience working with HPC clusters and parallel file systems.

• Proven ability to work effectively within a team and individually.

• Experience in working in a scientific environment and/or providing support to researchers.

More information about the role is attached in the 'Further Particulars' document.