Cloud Engineer

Description:

The National Situation Centre is looking for a cloud engineer to join our team who can bring a passion for technology to a fast paced, cutting edge crisis response department. In this role you will assist in the design, deployment and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure and services, ensuring the security and reliability of the platform at all times. This role works with a diverse array of cloud technologies and would suit someone who was early in their career or provide a challenge to someone looking to develop their infrastructure as code skills and contribute to the development of a modern, secure, cloud platform.

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members to design, develop and maintain our digital products and services.
• Undertake production system support, taking ownership of issues from monitoring support inboxes through to successful resolution.
• Be an active part of the wider external development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
• Apply relevant cloud engineering standards to ensure product quality and undertake code reviews.

As a Cloud Engineer, you should have the following technical skills:

• Practical experience of infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• An understanding of cloud computing fundamentals, such as networking, security, backups, logging, monitoring and alerting.
• An understanding of cloud computing services and tooling, including VPC’s, nat gateways, Lambda, S3 & EC2 and how they can be configured to work as part of a larger application.
• Demonstrate experience in languages or technologies including:
• A DevSecOps mindset.
• Experience with designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines