Public Cloud Engineer – Job Description
Purpose of the role: To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
Responsibilities
* Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use.
* Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
* Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
* Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber‑attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
* Teamwork: Cross‑functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data‑driven approach.
* Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Qualifications
* Highly developed Python development capability, with practical experience in AWS as a primary cloud platform, including services such as IAM, CloudFormation and Service Catalog, alongside a well‑established understanding of Agile methodologies, working with Git, relational databases and RESTful APIs.
* Ability to design, build and run cloud services at scale, including networking, identity and access, monitoring, resource optimisation and security, as well as developing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
* Demonstrated experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab and Python, combined with the ability to support and guide team members, encourage collaboration, and promote engineering and delivery best practices.
* Experience working with AWS, Azure or GCP, along with in-depth knowledge of public cloud security best practices.
* Experience with multi‑cloud environments and Kubernetes orchestration, with a focus on security, availability and performance.
* Knowledge of automated testing approaches such as BDD, TDD or unit testing, and practical understanding of CI/CD concepts and Agile delivery.
Additional Skills
* Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.
Location
Knutsford.
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