Principal Cloud Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud and Infrastructure Projects:
  • Design and implement common deployment, security, operational and cost accounting frameworks for teams working in AWS across the organisation
  • Lead migration projects to the cloud
  • Overhaul and continuously improve infrastructure to ensure scalability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency
  • Develop automated deployment and maintenance methods in collaboration with development teams
  • Liaise effectively with stakeholders across the organisation to get buy-in to changes and improvements
• Security and Best Practices:
  • Advocate for and implement best security practices within the system engineering and development processes
  • Suggest and implement code or tool enhancements with a focus on security
• Monitoring and Operations
  • Build and maintain monitoring and alerting using Grafana Cloud
  • Ensure documentation is complete and up-to-date
• Change, Incident, and Problem Management
  • Investigate and resolve complex problems
  • Represent proposed changes at CAB meetings
  • Liaise with stakeholders to agree on appropriate courses of action
  • Handle escalated user tickets
• System Administration and Automation:
  • Manage Linux systems (Ubuntu) both on-premises and in the cloud, using automation wherever possible

What We’re Looking For:

• Essential Skills and Experience:
  • AWS architecture, design and implementation
  • Terraform for developing and managing complex infrastructure as code
  • Strong communication and organisational skills for coordinating with stakeholders, users, other internal teams and suppliers
  • Monitoring technologies (e.g. Grafana)
  • Comfortable working in both agile and ITIL environments
  • Experience with AWS networking and network interoperation between AWS and on-premises systems
  • Linux systems administration (Ubuntu primarily)
  • Strong scripting (e.g. Python, Bash)
  • Containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker & Kubernetes)
  • DevOps tools and application administration (GitLab, Jira & Confluence, Artifactory, Vault or similar tools)
  • Strong general IT skills in system administration, networking and security
• Preferred Skills and Experience
  • Ansible for automation and orchestration
  • VMware vSphere and vCenter
  • Experience supporting IT in varied environments such as manufacturing and logistics, software development and quality assurance