Cloud Engineer

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

Person specification

Candidate Profile (“soft skills”)

• Demonstrable interest in technology, in the form of personal projects or hackathons is preferred.
• Highly motivated and able to work independently or as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Fast learner with the ability to integrate information and make judgements.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Good organisational skills coupled with the ability to work to a high degree of accuracy.