Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will be at the forefront of cloud technology using your skills for a variety of undertakings. You will meet with customers, potentially at the early sales stage, assessing and understanding their technical requirements.This is a real end to end role. You will be expected to take a project from the information and discovery stages through initial concept and design to implementation, build and support.Exposure to a wide variety of technologies and software is a given and you will be expected to investigate the use of new technologies as they become available.Responsibilities:

• Work with customers to translate requirements into technical designs and follow this through to delivery of the solution
• Design, plan and build highly available, global and Cloud native platforms
• Advise customers on modern software and architecture techniques such as 12 factor, microservices and serverless
• Identify optimisation opportunities across customer environments and lead their design and implementation
• Develop internal tooling for the wider Platform Team
• Assisting customers in understanding how cloud technology can help them grow and the benefits it offers
• Mentoring junior members of the team and helping to drive their developmentOn-call duties (roughly 1 week in 5) with a generous rate paid above salary

Key Skills:

• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Great communication (in person and written) skills
• Youre proactive and you like to solve problems. You want to get involved and make things happen, ensuring the best outcomes for your team, the business and our customers
• Previous experience in a consultancy or professional services role
• Ability to write tooling in at least one programming language
• A thorough understanding of Terraform and deployment methodologies associated with the tool
• Solid knowledge of cloud architecture principles and highly available systems
• Understanding of application development, delivery and infrastructure automationCommercial Kubernetes operational experienceExperience with some of the following:

Containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker) Configuration management tooling (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt) Excellent understanding of the Linux operating system (e.g. Debian, CentOS) Continuous integration and deployment tool sets (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD, GoCD) Common DevOps technology stacks (e.g. ELK, NGINX, Apache, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Redis, Consul) Site Reliability Engineering Database technologies including MySQL and PostgreSQLServerless and microservice architecturesDesirable Skills:

• GCP/AWS professional certifications
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Previous experience in a SRE or DevOps role

LocationThis role can be based from our office in Manchester, Edinburgh, Utrecht, or remote based.Benefits:Contractual

• Competitive Salary
• Private healthcare scheme
• Company contributed pension (matched up to 5%)
• Death in Service - 4x Annual Salary

Cultural

• Flexible working culture
• Unlimited paid holidays - We dont restrict you to your annual quota
• Bi-annual company events, an opportunity to meet colleagues you dont see every day (post-covid)
• Regular opportunities to attain industry recognised training and certifications
• Opportunity to develop within a fast growing tech business with ambitious year on year growth trajectory

Support

• Market leading parental leave policies
• Various wellbeing initiatives, including external financial advisory service, remote yoga sessions and mental health support services.
• Exclusive access to discounts & rewards programme, including Gym membership
• Childcare vouchers
• High spec equipment (laptops, phones, etc.)

Keyskills :
GCPTechnical EngineeringAzureAWSGoogle Cloud