Cloud/Devops Engineer Mid/Senior/Lead

Job Description

At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society. We work with public sector organisations to modernise technology and accelerate digital delivery so that citizens can benefit from better publicservices. Were building an open and transparent company across the UK, full of people who are passionate about their work, who always strive to be better, who love to help others grow and who care about using digital and technology to create a better, fairersociety.We focus our efforts on building meaningful, open source services that can help improve citizens lives. We find this type of work more challenging and more rewarding. Less short-lived, throwaway projects, more mission-critical systems and services.We see the importance and value in self-improvement. We have regular code dojos, show and tells, reviews and other reflective practices we aim to encourage growth. One of the biggest ways we have committed to developing our skills is Learn Tech Fridays.LearnTech consists of a number of tracks, where every Friday afternoon the whole company comes together to focus on learning new or developing existing skills. This is a constantly evolving programme and we are working with our teams feedback to keep improvingit going forward. We are building a lasting organisation in which our people can grow with the business. We try to think hard about how to best approach every aspect of what we do to create the most enjoyable and productive environment.*About the role:*OurCloud Engineers deliver digital, data and technology outcomes that improve society. They do this by architecting and delivering cloud solutions, and coaching others to do so both within Made Tech and in public sector organisations.We are looking for CloudEngineers with a love for cloud, automation, slick tooling, and empowering software delivery through coaching teams. While we are looking for Cloud Engineers that are able to demonstrate significant expertise in the design and execution of cloud-based solutions,we expect all of our engineers to have a solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals.*Responsibilities:*At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society. We help public sector organisations deliverquality software to help citizens get more from public services. To do this we work alongside brilliant public servants to modernise technology and accelerate digital delivery.As a Cloud Engineer you will combine your technical excellence, drive to deliverand coaching skills to achieve outcomes for our customers and their users, and to establish strong engineering cultures within our customers organisations.High performing software delivery teams need to be empowered to iteratively and rapidly deliver changesall the way through to production. To do this we combine our extensive software engineering and cloud automation knowledge with DevOps culture.For us, DevOps is about culture rather than roles and titles. Even though this role is for someone with strong DevOpsexperience, the biggest impact you will have is coaching and helping teams use the platforms you build. You wont be building infrastructure in isolation or charged with deploying other peoples work into production. Youll empower teams with the mantra: youbuild it, you run it!You will have the opportunity to work across a variety of cloud technologies and client engagements and will need to be comfortable doing so. Youll be equally happy providing cloud consultancy to an engineering team as you will workingwithin a team of other cloud engineers helping to build and maintain the infrastructure required to deliver services at scale in the public sector. Your role will be to provide cloud and DevOps expertise in varied situations and youll relish the chance tocoach others towards best practices while being empathetic to their environmental constraints.You will need to be comfortable sharing your knowledge and skills with others. Wed love to hear some examples of mentoring, coaching and growing team members. Maybeyou will have written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two.*Our Tech Stack:*Weve been using AWS and other cloud platforms from the start and, as AWS Partners, are go to experts within the public sector. We use a rangeof IaaS, PaaS and FaaS depending on the needs of our users such as EC2, Lambda, ECS, Kubernetes, Heroku, CloudFoundry, Azure App Services, and more. We use AWS VPC and PrivateLink or Azure VNet for connecting to on-premise, legacy systems.. You will have theopportunity to use and learn these technologies and we offer official AWS and other cloud training.We ensure we document our architecture and infrastructure as code, using technologies such as Terraform. Containerisation is a big part of empowering our teamsto develop, deploy and scale their applications, but so too is using serverless technologies to avoid the complexity of stateful services altogether. We believe in pragmatic selection of the right tool for the job.*Requirements:*While we will look for youto have experience in these things, if you dont have some of these dont let that stop you applying.* Deep working knowledge of developing and maintaining AWS or Azure infrastructure* Infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform and Cloud Formation*Configuration management and server provisioning tooling and scripting* Debugging infrastructure* Building out and maintaining CI/CD pipelines* Delivered in an agile environment* Worked within a strong DevOps culture* Worked extensively with Cloud Native containerisedinfrastructure* Worked with more than one programming/scripting language* Worked with relational and non-relational databases* Worked with APIs* Written code with tests* Security first mindset* Data driven decision making* Evidence of self-developmentwevalue keen learners* Drive to deliver outcomes for users* Desire to mentor others* Empathy and people skills*Optional experience:*Dont forget to mention any of the experience listed below. While its optional, its all highly desired!* AWS DevOps EngineerProfessional, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert or GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer level qualification* Experience using a wide-breadth of AWS services including EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, SES, RDS, or equivalent servicesin Azure or GCP* Networking knowledge* Consultancy* Working directly with customers and users* Writing blog posts and giving talks* Working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technology working within the same cycles* Showcasing and presentationskills* Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban* Pair programmingwe pair around 50% of the time* We are passionate about testing, experience of TDD, BDD and implementation of automated testing frameworks within CI/CD pipelines* Familiarity with