Description:
You will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our clients’ cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and highly available. You will provide dedicated cloud and infrastructure expertise within your team and advise on best practice.
We expect our cloud engineers to have a background in and thorough understanding of software engineering. You will keep abreast of emerging technologies and be able to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary software delivery environment.
You will be expected to maintain a broad technical knowledge across all major cloud platforms and build credibility by pursuing relevant certifications.
Responsibilities
Delivery of high quality cloud-based technical solutions for our clients:
- Collaborate within cross-functional teams to design cloud architectures that meet the client’s requirements around scalability, performance, and security.
- Deploy and manage cloud resources, containers, and related services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Configure and maintain networking, security, and access control in the cloud environment.
- Implement and maintain robust security practices to protect data and resources in the cloud environment.
- Develop and maintain automated processes for provisioning, monitoring, and scaling cloud resources, including the use of CI/CD pipelines to streamline application deployments.
- Monitor cloud infrastructure for performance bottlenecks and proactively optimise resource usage.
- Implement load balancing, caching, and content delivery solutions to ensure high availability and performance.
- Design and maintain backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity in the event of system failures or data loss.
- Create and maintain runbooks including configuration management and standard operating procedures.
- Provide high tier support for client applications and infrastructure, including occasional on call cover.
Evangelising the adoption of cloud technology and adherence to prescribed best practices:
- Evaluate and recommend cloud services, tools, and solutions to meet common client scenarios..
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, and share knowledge with the team.
- Collaborate with other teams within Made Tech to ensure alignment with cloud best practices.
- Line manage and mentor more junior colleagues to support their development, pursuit of career goals and management of their overall performance.
Essential skills
- Significant prior experience in a cloud engineering role, with a strong foundation in successfully building and deploying services in the cloud.
- A deep knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
- Hands on experience delivering software using multiple programming languages and a thorough knowledge of modern software engineering best practices.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technical disciplines all successfully collaborating.
Desirable skills
- Experience working in a technology consultancy environment.
- Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer, DevOps Engineer, Security, Advanced Networking or Azure Developer, Security, DevOps, Network Engineer.
- Knowledge of cloud vendor partner programs, such as AWS APN and Azure Partners.
- Experience with well-architected frameworks.
- Knowledge of UK public sector technology guidance and frameworks, such as NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and the Technology Code of Practice (TCoP).
- Familiarity with python, bash and javascript.
- Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban.
- Experience using Test Driven Development (TDD).