Principal Cloud Engineer

Open 30d

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