Senior Cloud Engineer Job in Systems Plus Transformations Llp

As a Cloud Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional team that enables cloud engineering skills and capabilities across our customer business. Being an enthusiast in cloud engineering with a DevSecOps mindset, and thanks to your excellent collaboration skills, you will work to deliver the best answers to our customers needs. You will provide technical leadership within your team, shape engineering processes and practices, coach and develop other team members, promote quality-first ethos, champion continuous improvement and technical excellence. You will lead complex technical solution delivery and will work within a practice team to ensure the correct solution is engineered, addressing the technical needs and requirements of the business. You will achieve this by delivering changes across the IT stack in collaboration with Agile delivery teams, using cloud technologies and common automation, ensuring successful deliverables within agreed time and quality targets. You will diligently care about the quality of your work, including proper documentation and security aspects.

You will design and implement secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions and be responsible for driving architecture, design, development, security and operations. You will use your deep technical skills to work with your colleagues to improve expertise in cloud solution architectures, infrastructure-as-code approaches, cloud-focused DevSecOps capabilities, tooling, processes, ways of working and the continuous improvement of CI/CD and automation. To achieve this, you will be required to understand the coding standards defined, AWS software technologies and UI standards to create successful and quality deliverables. You will need to ensure that software development and delivery is consistent. You will take proactive corrective action where required, for example quality improvement of the software code and improving automation to enhance software delivery.

You have a proven track record in delivering cloud enablement services to customer teams, supporting them in their adoption of the AWS (or other) cloud platform, with a strong focus on platform provisioning and configuration, onboarding and consultation, well-architected, operational health, platform security, FinOps services and education & training.

You are able to verbalise your thoughts and ideas and take the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes. Together with the different teams in the IT Domains, relevant Practice teams as well as other teams you will research, evaluate and test new approaches, processes and tools and help teams to use them effectively. You perform a leading role in Communities of Practice, including collaboration in shared initiatives. You need little to no supervision to perform your work and regularly coach, guide and further develop more junior colleagues.

Requirements

Proven deep knowledge of working with highly available, distributed systems and services in a cloud environment

Advanced skill set for understanding and solving complex problems spanning one or more teams/areas with appropriate quality and quantity

Ability to fully own and lead complex problems and/or multi-faceted initiatives and outcomes panning across the domain.

Extensive hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and in designing and implementing scaled cloud systems with a focus on solution architecture, using a range of tools and services, infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps and security engineering practices

Expected to define and maintain standards, best practices for managing AWS resources and ensuring teams follow appropriate processes

Programming skills at a proficient level to work with multiple software development technologies, e.g. Python, GoLang, Java, Node.JS

Strong scripting language skills e.g. Terraform/Cloud Formation/Ansible

Good experience with CI/CD, preferably Gitlab CI or Circle CI

Excellent knowledge in networking like IP, DNS, firewalling, load-balancing and VPNs

Professional level AWS certification

Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, current best practices, threat modelling and risk mitigation techniques.

Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services

Demonstrating true engineering craftsmanship mindset

Be an advocate of the DevOps culture and principles.

Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams

Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills

Strong problem-solving skills for complex areas coupled with excellent communication skills

Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering (e.g. like described in the ACM Code of Ethics)

Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner

Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous

Benefits

• Work from home
  

We are an established company with a start-up mind-set and are looking for members to skip lunches over meetings, brainstorm on ideas on different aspects of business and roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty.

We want members who want to do something new and different and make a mark in whatever they do. We are not looking for time watching members. We are looking for a member who stays with us through the highs and lows of a dynamic and fast growing organisation.

You will have enough challenges to grow and enjoy your work.