Cloud Engineer / Analyst – based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent (currently fully remote, then 40% remote from around June time)
Salary: Up to £60,000 + benefits

This is an opportunity to join a very innovative company, whose appetite for growth and opportunity keeps growing. As a Cloud Engineer / Analyst, you will help the company with their digital transformation to a cloud first strategy, supporting the infrastructure requirements at a 3rd line level, and involved in both project and BAU work.

The underlying objectives are to deliver a stable, resilient and scalable fit for purpose platform that empowers the group to deliver business applications when and where they are required. You will be expected to use your skill set as a Cloud Engineer / Analyst to move the company towards their goal of application and infrastructure modernisation through transformation. You will be joining a highly skilled, motivated group of SME’s who are all happy to both share knowledge and learn from others. The company is very much technology focused, and is looking to expand through acquisition and currently undergoing a period of digital transformation that is being led by IT, so this is a very exciting time to join.

Key Responsibilities

Accountable for the support and development of a hybrid cloud infrastructure

Accountable for the support of the infrastructure across the company

Work with the Architecture team to deliver strategic roadmaps

Ensure that Security considerations are embedded in all work undertaken

To work with 3rd party support services as required

To deliver technical designs to remediate against identified problems

Provide design authority expertise to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose and delivered to an agreed standard

To work with NOC to ensure all aspects of the infrastructure and are actively monitored

To ensure regular health checks and appropriate patching is carried out

To ensure right level of documentation is created, available and maintained for the environment

To ensure that that all backup services for the group are appropriate and maintained accordingly

To continue to develop the groups technical capabilities through the use of existing and emerging technologies

The ability to learn new technology and to also share that knowledge with others

Excellent understanding of the commercial and business impact of IT outages with the business

Carry out performance/capacity planning for the IT Infrastructure

Key Skills and Knowledge

Essential:

Cloud Engineering experience including Azure

Use of Azure services including ARM templates, JSON and Powershell DSC

Exposure to and use of containerization technology

Use of Dev Ops tools including team City, Octopus deploy, GIT, Azure Dev ops (VSTS)

Windows AD including Powershell

Office 365 and Azure AD

MS Windows Server (Apply online only)

Desirable:

Other cloud platform experience e.g. AWS, Google

Experience with Terraform, Docker or Kubernetes

Experience of Microsoft Service Fabric in Azure

Cisco Networking , Nexus, Switching, routing VLAN config, BGP, OSPF

Backup technologies including Rubrik, Veeam

Hyper Converged Data centre experience

Citrix Netscaler Gateways

Storage Area Networks

Modern monitoring platform knowledge

Professional qualifications that support your experience

Excellent knowledge of the ITIL framework

If you are an experienced Cloud Analyst / Engineer with the required listed skills and experience then please apply now to find out more