over 1 year ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead cloud engineering work in cross-functional teams and make final decisions on difficult technical issues.
- Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available cloud architectures and resources.
- Use Terraform or CloudFormation to provision and manage infrastructure, containers, networking, security, and access controls.
- Develop automated provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and CI/CD processes for cloud resources and application deployments.
- Implement performance optimization, load balancing, caching, content delivery, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Provide high-tier client application and infrastructure support, including occasional on-call coverage.
- Consult with clients, promote cloud best practices, and contribute thought leadership to the Cloud Practice.
- Line manage and mentor junior colleagues and support their career development and performance.
- Maintain compliance standards, relevant certifications, and current knowledge of cloud technologies.
Requirements
- Significant prior experience in a cloud engineering leadership role and a strong foundation in building and deploying cloud services.
- Deep knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Hands-on experience delivering software in multiple programming languages and understanding modern software engineering practices.
- Deep experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerisation and orchestration tools.
- Experience architecting cloud infrastructure through deployment and ongoing support.
- Experience collaborating in multidisciplinary teams involving product, design, and technical disciplines.
- Understanding of DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering in modern digital organisations.
- Experience in a technology consultancy environment is desirable.
- Relevant cloud certifications, including AWS or Azure certifications, are desirable.
- Knowledge of AWS APN, Azure Partners, well-architected frameworks, UK public sector guidance, NCSC CAF, or TCoP is desirable.
- Familiarity with Python, Bash, JavaScript, Scrum, XP, Kanban, and Test Driven Development is desirable.
- Eligibility for SC security clearance requires five years of continuous UK residency and a five-year employment history, or history back to full-time education.
Benefits
- 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Flexible working hours.
- Flexible parental leave options.
- Part-time remote working for all staff.
- Paid counselling plus financial and legal advice.
- Flexible benefits platform with a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, health care cash plan, and pension plan.
- Optional social and wellbeing events calendar.
- Inclusive workplace with communities of practice and employee community groups.
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