Cloud Engineer
Location: Wakefield UK
The Cloud Engineer will work collaboratively within Aptean's Cloud Teams, reporting directly to the International Tech Hub Manager. They will mentor other team members in the development, deployment, and ongoing monitoring and support of environments for our customers. They will have opportunities to be involved at all stages of a project - covering requirements, cloud services deployment, security and compliance, systems engineering and operational readiness. They will develop and test cloud infrastructure disaster recovery plans before handing off to the appropriate cloud department for annual scheduling. They will bring not only knowledge of core AWS and Azure services but experience performing systems engineering tasks as part of a project team.
Duties / Scope
Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, a Cloud Engineer uses their skills to contribute and develop company objectives and principles, aiming to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
A Cloud Engineer will exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Cloud Engineers should be able to act independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments, serves as a mentor to others.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
* The day-to-day management of the cloud infrastructures for Aptean's Business Systems, Applications, High Availability, and Business as Usual (BAU).
* Constant examination and re-evaluation of existing systems to provide efficiencies within the cloud infrastructures.
* Maintaining an efficient environment to keep BAU costs to a minimum.
* Working with other teams, R & D, Support, and Professional Services to identify areas of improvement.
* Supporting your associated product as a 3rd Line Product Expert, helping to meet SLA's.
You will be a key technical contact working within a product team of three and part of a wider European Team of 15+ engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who is ready to widen their skillset and knowledge within the cloud infrastructure model.
Prerequisites
You will need at least 2 years' experience with cloud infrastructures, their configuration, monitoring and maintenance.
Technical Essential
* Networking & Networking Administration
* Internal & External DNS
* Incident Management
* Windows Operating Systems (2016, 2019, 2022, 2025)
* Technical Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
* AZURE Cloud / Virtualisation Infrastructure Management
* Share Knowledge and Best Practice with Peers
Technical Optional
* Microsoft Web Server (IIS) Administration
* Microsoft SQL Server Administration and Scripting
* PowerShell scripting
* Load Balancer Configuration
* Server Monitoring
* Linux Operating Systems (RH9, CentOS, Debian)
* AWS Cloud / Virtualisation Infrastructure Management
Personal Essential
* You will need to be a good communicator as you will be liaising with a varied range of positions from the ground up to Senior Manager levels, and working as part of a large engineering team, you will require good interpersonal skills.
* Methodical approach to scheduling, and running meetings are essential to the role, along with a good understanding of both technical, and project documentation.
* Good Time Management skills
* Your documentation skills will need to be on point as you may be required to be involved in, and understand:
* Technical Schematics.
* Infrastructure Design.
* Native and bespoke cloud systems.
* Share Knowledge and Best Practice with Peers.
About Us
Aptean is a private equity backed software company that connects companies in specific industries with specialized software solutions. In today's fast-paced, highly competitive economy, organizations don't have time to waste forcing homegrown software, spreadsheets, and one-size-fits-all solutions to do things they were never designed to do. Aptean is on a mission to end those workarounds with streamlined industry-specific software solutions. That's why over 4,100+ highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 54 countries rely on us to simplify their everyday operations.
If you share our mindset, you can share in our success. To find out more about joining Aptean, get in touch today.
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