Principal Cloud Engineer
Your responsibilities
Your experience and qualifications
Must have
- Design and implementation of a cloud solution (AWS).
- Work closely with Architecture to ensure Cloud strategy and vision are realised.
- Ensure design and engineering processes are adhering to existing engineering standards, and deliver a reporting model on compliance.
- As part of the Solution Engineering Guild – lead delivery of technical documentation, such as best practices, standards and processes.
- Provide expert services on contemporary engineering practices (micro services, continuous delivery, multi-cloud, data engineering, DevSecOps).
- Be part of a cross-functional team planning, designing, creating, enhancing, and documenting new and existing system features in order to deliver agreed value to stakeholders.
- Collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate such that features meet specified functional and non-functional requirements.
- Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to understand whether solutions meet their needs.
Your experience and qualifications
Must have
- Experience in delivering programs of work in a complex, agile environment
- Have lead end to end cloud implementation on a complex environment
- Demonstrated experience working in a Senior Cloud Engineering role in public, private and hybrid cloud environments.
- A strong understanding of cloud engineering principles underpinned by design and development experience with one or more cloud environments such GCP, AWS and VMware
- Experience with running multi cloud environments and a strong understanding of multitenancy and security implications
- Knowledge and experience with cloud concepts such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) , Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Understand enterprise networking and cloud native solutions
- Experience of cloud infrastructure automation
- Experience in Terraform
- Experienced in working with cloud deployment and orchestration technologies at scale with strong knowledge of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing. Knowledge of Containerisation
- Experienced with complex data structures and semi structured data (JSON, XML)
- Experienced with Design Governance, and can take responsibility for the end to end software design process across a large program of work, collaborating with Architecture, Engineering and Suppliers.
- Scripting Skills (Shell, Perl, Python)
- Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Architecture certifications on AWS or GCP
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GoCD, GitLab, Cloud Build, or Code Build.
- Experience building scalable systems and workloads on the cloud.
- Experience migrating workloads to the cloud.
- Proficient in Linux, Shell scripting, Gradle, Java 8+, and Spring Boot 2.7+
- Experience in building and working with Docker container-based services or other CRE.
- Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.
- AWS Well Architected Framework.