Our client has offices in Dundee & Aberdeen and will consider candidates working from either. They are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineers ti sit within the Cloud Engineering team and work closely with Technical Support, NetOps, CyberOps, Projects and Product Managers to provide outstanding
Responsibilities
- Technically lead from the front, as an AWS cloud engineer subject matter expert
- Work with leadership to identify, test and champion the adoption of emerging technologies
- Provide technical leadership and guidance through coaching and mentoring and provide specialist support to maintain the stability, functionality, and integrity of AWS platforms
- Ensure that security, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development and deployment of services
- Assist with the development of medium-to-long-term strategies for products and services
- Act on the principle that “what can be automated should be automated
- Assist in shaping career paths, recruiting the right talent and promoting best practice across knowledge share
- Work with the Head of Cloud Engineering and others to identify skills gaps within technical teams
- Act as a point of escalation for on-call engineers and participate in the engineering on-call rota as required Requirements
Essential Skills
- AWS Professional certifications (Solutions Architect and/or DevOps Engineer) and knowledge of AWS best practices
- Expert knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g. Python) and continuous integration / delivery approaches and tools (e.g. GitHub)
- In-depth knowledge of the design and development of applications on AWS
- Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery
- Effective communication skills to be able to gather and interpret requirements and communicate results
- Comfortable engaging with customers and prospects providing AWS service propositions
- Ability to breakdown and solve complex technical problems across multiple technology domains
Desired Skills
- AWS Specialty certifications
- Containerisation (Docker/Docker Compose)
- Monitoring platforms (Zabbix, Datadog)
- ITSM platforms (ServiceNow)
- Experience configuring and deploying multi-tenanted and dedicated private cloud infrastructures.
- Strong experience and knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems
- Experience in Disaster Recovery and backup technologies at scale e.g. Zerto, Veeam, etc.
- Experience working with Storage Array Networks and associated protocols,
- Expert knowledge of TCP/IP and network troubleshooting
- Identifying technical risk throughout the project delivery and into service delivery/ business as usual activity (BAU).
- Knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Prince II) and Service Management best practice.
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