Principle Cloud Engineer

Job Description

About UsWere on a mission to change the future of clinical research. At Calyx, we help the biopharmaceutical industry bring medical treatments to the market, faster.Our mission is to change the world - but to do this, we need people like you.What can we offer youApart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:YOURSELF

• Flexible working
• 25 days holiday (with the option to buy more)

HEALTH

• Simplyhealth Health Cash Plan
• Optional private health and dental insurance, and health screens
• Cycle to work scheme (Applies to all employees)

WEALTH

• Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution
• Life assurance
• Season ticket loan

As a Principal Cloud Engineer, youll lead and provide guidance on the build of solutions to enhance availability, performance and stability of our cloud services, along with the enabling platform automation and technical services for solution delivery inline with regulatory compliance. You will respond to alerts & notifications to investigate issues in our products, working primarily on non-production environments and supporting the release of products into production environments. You will be responsible for monitoring, data collection andconfiguration management, as well as disaster recovery planning, capacity engineering, reliability improvement initiatives and platform automation. This may require you to work outside of normal business hours providing support to the development and supportfunctions. You will be seen as a Subject Matter Expert within the role and will be expected to evidence the collaborative and leadership behaviours that support working in a team with architects, developers, support staff, infrastructure engineers and testers as wellas evolving and implementing the standards defined within the DevOps competency. As a Principle DevOps / Cloud Engineer you will show creative and innovative problem-solving skills with a willingness to take responsibility and support the wider DevOps competency for complex issues as they arise. You will understand and set the examplesof best practice and standards to develop and implement solutions that operate at scale - seeing your own technology efforts directly improve the reliability and availability of products and achieve the aspiration of "Release on Demand". You will own and coachothers in the development efforts in each sprint from planning to delivery to realise this goal and collaborate with different teams to review, design and implement solutions. As a Principle DevOps Engineer you will be expected to take on more complex activities either as part of a team of other DevOps Engineers or independently. Where in a team you will be expected to promote the behaviours and coach the skills and standards thatothers aspire to achieve.The role can be fully remote or a hybrid office/remote based. They will be a requirement to travel to the office for a few days every 3 months. The candidate must be UK based.Experience:

• AzurePaaS & IaaS engineering & development experience
• Microsoft Office365 & PowerApps engineering experience
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline build, improvement and management
• Hands on & demonstrable experience with cloud infrastructure: Azure PaaS & IaaS, PowerShell & ARM Template Automation, Software Defined Networking, Virtual machine automation for Windows Server, Linux and associated infrastructure management layer automation.
• Exposure to and maintenance of configuration management and orchestration tools
• Diagnosing and troubleshooting, at expert level, incidents, problems and service-outages in high-throughput/complex web applications and network services
• Exposure to system and application level telemetry for large distributed & micro services cloud architectures
• Understanding in building cloud services within regulated environments
• Experience with the following products: Azure Devops, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Jenkins, Puppet, Mercurial, BitBucket, Git, Specflow, nUnit, jUnit. Knowledge of similar products will also be useful.
• Experience of robust and repeatable automation of non-cloud native products into cloud IaaS typically with Java applications, Oracle and web tiers.

Personal behaviours and attributes:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with team communication and positive stakeholder management
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritise workload with attention to detail.
• A collaborative attitude to working with colleagues across cultures and time-zones.
• Takes responsibility and shows Initiative and self-confidence; be adaptable and able to cope with changing and evolving priorities. Be aware of the value and perception of your activities on your peers and wider team.
• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific specialism in the field and provides expert advice regarding their application showing leadership when researching and implementing new solutions.
• Ability to present to small - medium sized audiences
• Experience of coaching others resulting in demonstrable improvements in technology skills.

Education

• Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science field, or equivalent or Proven experience Systems Engineer or DevOps Engineer years
• Microsoft Azure Certifications are desirable
• Excellent knowledge of ITIL V3, Foundation certification is desirable
• Fluent in English both written and oral.