Register Your Interest - Cloud Engineering Specialist (Cheltenham, Cheltenham, United Kingdom)
Recruiter: Krystle James
Career Grade: D
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Due to the sensitive nature of this role, you will be required to undergo DV (Developed Vetting) level Security Clearance (. An allowance of £5k per annum may be payable monthly while you hold this DV and continue to work in a role that requires that level of security clearance. The terms of this allowance will be made available if you are successful in being recruited into this role.
Why this job matters
The Cloud Engineering Specialist independently implements core infrastructure and security services in Amazon Web Services to deliver highly available and scalable services, automating time intensive processes whilst and meeting security and compliance objectives in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem.
This job role can be based in London, Cheltenham or Ipswich. Onsite (5 days office based). Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. DV Security Clearance is required. Must have lived in UK for 10+ years to obtain clearance.
What you’ll be doing
* Be hands on in the build and development of world class secure cloud-based solutions as part of an agile delivery team.
* Lead the design of cloud solutions.
* Work directly with our customers to understand their requirements.
* Working with support teams to enable management and monitoring of cloud-based systems, and their ongoing support.
* Provide some third line support to deployed cloud-based solutions.
* Line manage several more junior members of the team, assisting them in their professional development.
Essential Skills
* Cloud Architecture/Design
* Cloud Migration
* Cloud Deployment
* Software Development for Cloud
* Agile Methodologies
You'll definitely
* Have experience utilising AWS cloud services, both compute and appropriate managed services.
* Have expertise in developing for cloud, with experience in iterative full-stack development in appropriate languages (for example node.js or Python).
* Have experience in delivering Kubernetes or AWS EKS solutions.
* Have experience managing infrastructure-as-code, for example using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
* Have experience managing or mentoring more junior colleagues.
You might even
1. Have some experience with CI/CD pipelines, and tools such as Jenkins.
2. Have experience automating specific management and maintenance activities, to support BAU tasks in complex systems environments. (e.g. new cloud