Janes, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Overview
Janes empowers military, government, and defence leaders to act with confidence in an increasingly complex world. Our trusted defence, security, and geopolitical information delivered through seamless digital platforms and system integrations turns overwhelming data into clear, actionable intelligence and insight. By filling critical information gaps, Janes helps customers analyse threats, accelerate decisions, and stay ahead of emerging challenges.
Job purpose: The primary purpose of the Cloud Engineer is to ensure that Janes remains safe and secure in the cloud through management and ongoing improvement of our multi-account AWS environment. The role sits in the Platform Team, comprising five engineers reporting to the Architecture Director, with a day-to-day focus on core services like network, backup, monitoring, security and governance. Where required, the role extends into each of our four Service Teams to ensure standards are adopted, appropriate resources are being used to deliver value to our customers, while being operationally resilient, secure and cost effective. The Cloud Engineer is primarily a hands-on role, but there are important design, documentation and communication expectations due to regular engagement with senior stakeholders, as well as day-to-day relationships with Service Teams.
How you will contribute at Janes:
* Design, build, operate and monitor our core cloud infrastructure
* Maintain IaC codebases for platform and common services to be used by service teams.
* Adopt an environment of continuous improvement for security, resilience and cost.
* Ensure services are appropriately patched and maintained to minimise vulnerabilities.
* Ensure standards are adopted across Service Teams.
* Mentor and support Service Teams on appropriate use of cloud resources.
* Contribute to service management processes covering change control, incident management and DR.
* Operate in a fast-paced agile environment, balancing an operational mindset with the need to deliver.
Ideal skills and experience:
* Extensive cloud experience, with 5+ years AWS and an appreciation of Azure services.
* Experience operating at an organisation-level in a complex multi-account architecture.
* In-depth infrastructure experience across network, backup, observability, security and governance.
* Experience managing security of systems in line with ISO27001, Cyber essentials or NIST standards.
* In-depth experience with Identity and Access Management, including Privileged Access
* In-depth experience with Terraform, IaC and associated pipeline management.
* Experience managing Windows and Linux servers and associated services, e.g. Directory Services.
* Experience with cloud native, serverless architectures.
* Experience with disaster recovery and service management principles and processes.
* Good understanding of agile and modern software engineering and development practices.
* Experience across a range of technologies including CloudFront, WAF, AWS Firewall, API Gateway, Transit Gateway; AWS VPN, Zscaler ZPA, AWS Identity Centre, Microsoft Entra; AWS Backup, AWS Systems Manager, Security Hub, Guard Duty, Microsoft Defender; Windows/Linux OS and Active Directory; Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, OpenSearch, Grafana, Kinesis; Lambda, EKS, ECS and EC2; DocumentDB, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, OpenSearch; EventBridge, Steps, Glue.
Location and working model: This position offers a hybrid working model, with a requirement to be based in either the Manchester or Croydon office and a minimum of 40% in-office presence.
* 27 days of annual leave
* Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
* Private medical insurance – BUPA
* Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)
* Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks)
* Life cover
* Access to LinkedIn Learning
* Access to an on-site gym (only in Croydon)
Benefits summary
See the list above for the benefits included with this role.
Our Mission and Technology at Janes
Creating trusted open-source intelligence has always been our focus. Janes foundational defence intelligence, across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, and defence industry, is verified and validated using our human-centric tradecraft to deliver the highest levels of assurance.
We excel at capturing and making sense of open-source information to regularly reveal new and timely insights. We provide clients with a definitive source of the ‘what’, the context to understand the ‘why’ and, particularly within our dedicated forecasting products, a prediction of what will happen in the future.
Our technology group is cross-functional and multi-disciplinary, located across Croydon and Manchester, and led by our technology leadership team. We use a broad range of specialist technologies and approaches including AI, ML, graph and document databases, search platforms, serverless technologies and event processing platforms, customer portals, visualisation platforms, Geospatial systems as well as general-purpose AWS capabilities.
We operate in an empowered, disciplined development environment with agile methodologies and a culture focused on delivering complex solutions that require genuine problem solving and innovation.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
Industries
* Information Services
* Defense and Space Manufacturing
* Technology, Information and Media
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