Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer, 3 days a week in office 2 work from home.

Location: Bristol (Hybrid)

Our client a Global FinTech with offices around the world inc Bristol and London in the UK, USA, Europe and India though this role is based in Bristol, at the junction of the M4/M5 at Aztec West, are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer but expectation is 3 days a week in office rest from home as this is a hybrid role .

They are a Global Fintech leader who are looking to invest in its Cloud Engineering teams, that will further enable a rapidly growing Cloud hosted client base. To continue to service and support the world's top investment banks and asset managers, we are constantly innovating to cement our industry leading position for the next decade.

You will be working alongside a global team of engineering and operations professionals, who are based in the UK, US, and India.

The position requires little to no travel, offers excellent growth potential, and is a great opportunity to further develop Cloud engineering knowledge. Applicants should have an excellent technical background, a good work ethic, and strong communication skills. The role will involve participation in new initiatives across the product suite, enhancing their Cloud provision strategy.

As the company is successfully growing its Managed Services and Solution Delivery business with changes to both on premise and cloud architectures, you will be someone who embraces this challenge and the ability to support and develop each.

You will be working alongside a global team of engineering and operations professionals, who are based in the UK, US, and India.

The position requires little to no regular travel, offers excellent growth potential, and is a great opportunity to further develop Cloud engineering knowledge. Applicants should have an excellent technical background, a good work ethic, and strong communication skills. The role will involve participation in new initiatives across the product suite, enhancing our Cloud provision strategy.

As the company is successfully growing its Managed Services and Solution Delivery business with changes to both on premise and cloud architectures, you will be someone who embraces this challenge and the ability to support and develop each.

Job Responsibilities

The purpose of the role will be to create, manage and improve our OnDemand solutions in the cloud.

Key Skills

In-depth knowledge of cloud technologies with commercial experience of managing enterprise infrastructure environments

Technical experience in infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security, and storage

Configuration of Firewalls, load balancers and other network equipment

Experience with deploying and managing infrastructure for databases such as Oracle

Provide demonstrable experience of your ability to work independently, working on your own initiative as a self-starter

Desirable Skills

Understanding of how to build resilient multi-site architectures

Experience and knowledge of cloud security and relevant ISO and PCI compliance requirements

Knowledge of Azure and other cloud providers

Experience of Windows and Linux operating systems

Experience of using Terraform to build, change and version infrastructure.

Experience of container technologies, for example Docker, Kubernetes, Azure AKS and AWS EKS

Working knowledge of AGILE development, using methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban or Extreme Programming

Configuration of Firewalls, load balancers and other network equipment

Key duties and accountabilities of the role will include:

Building and supporting cloud infrastructure in production environments

Evolving our best practices for deploying our solutions into AWS

Provide AWS expertise and consultancy to the rest of the business

Automating software integration and deployment in cloud platforms

Assisting with the containerisation of our existing product suite and its deployment

Managing and resolving client issues relating to hosted infrastructure.

Qualifications

The following certifications would be an advantage:

AWS Certified Solution Architect

AWS Certified Cloud practitioner

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

MCSA Cloud Platform Solutions Associate

MCSA Linux on Azure Solutions Associate

Experience

AWS Cloud infrastructure as part of responsibilities

Benefits

25 days annual leave rising to 28 with length of service

Supportive holiday package - Includes 25 days annual leave rising to 28 (with length of service) Plus ability to carry over up to 10 days into the next holiday year

Company pension scheme matching up to 5% of salary - Additionally, you can choose to make your contributions via Salary Sacrifice

Group Life Assurance - Up to 9 times your annual basic salary

Group Income Protection - Up to 75% of salary

Private Medical Insurance - Which can include family cover

Free onsite parking