Senior Cloud Engineer

October 17

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Description

• Reporting to the Cloud Platform Lead you’ll be responsible for improving the both the operational and cost efficiency of our AWS estate. • You’ll be working on all aspects of modernisation of our cloud systems, converting legacy infrastructure to modern vendor-neutral Terraform IaC and removing waste along the way. • Working under the direction of your Tech Lead, you’re focus will be providing resilient and efficient cloud infrastructure. • You’ll perform and teach in activities, providing a structured environment for Junior and Mid-level colleagues. • You will refine, plan and help create tickets in our work management system. • You will help to plan and report on your squads work. • You’ll participate in and lead design sessions with the team to help generate and select appropriate ideas and solutions. • You are an excellent written and oral communicator who is proactive and polite in their approach to others right across the business. • You’ll solve problems unassisted, and help others to resolve the problems they encounter. You will identify and escalate blockers to your Tech Lead.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of AWS as a cloud platform with an emphasis on the difficulties around running containerised services • Strong understanding of Kubernetes, as a managed service from AWS as well as running it for yourself on your own provisioned metal • Strong understanding of everything required to run traditional and containerised workloads on AWS • Strong understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, Mongo) • Strong ability with Terraform and the principles of best practice with IaC • Strong experience with all aspects of networking required to securely run cloud infrastructure • Good experience with Keycloak and OIDC • Good experience with Kong or similar REST API gateway technology • A history of software development (as well as infrastructure management) • A willingness to get “stuck in to the code” rather than needing to wait for a developer to explain how it works

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 days Bank Holiday • An additional day off for a ‘celebration day’ including, but not limited to, birthdays, weddings, religious holidays, graduations etc • Buy or sell up to 5 days holiday a year • Healthcare cash plan through Westfield Health worth a minimum of £750 per year • Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme • Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme and a free helmet • Salary sacrifice Pension contribution, 4% employee contributions matched with 4% Tandem contribution (*Subject to salary eligibility) • Smart Tech scheme (buy goods with 0% interest) • 10% discount on solar panels • Tandem Hub for treats, cash back and discounts on UK retailers • 2 days per year paid volunteering • Free cereal, snacks and drinks in all offices • Quarterly team social budgets