Cardiff - up to £80,000 + benefits - Hybrid working or Fully remote - Perm role
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our client's Cloud Platform Team, working closely with other delivery teams to realise the company's ambitious cloud transformation. You should be highly proficient in infrastructure as code and using automation techniques and tools. You'll be responsible for designing, planning, building, and running secure cloud infrastructure.
Role Overview:
- Design, develop, and maintain secure scalable and automated services
- Collaborate to define best practices and standards around DevOps and service resilience
- Create reusable automation libraries that can be applied across the company
- Deliver on HA/DR, security, capacity, and compliance strategies for existing and new applications
- Develop usage standards, user self-service designs, and reporting on application KPIs
- Optimize and support our existing public cloud-based solutions and workloads
- Work with architecture team to ensure effective designs and application of the cloud and hosting services
- Collaborate with and provide expertise/guidance to other teams inside and outside of IT
- Collaborate with Information Security to ensure infrastructure is deployed in accordance with security standards and policies
Key skills:
- Experience of design and implementation of Azure infrastructure, applications and cloud solutions at enterprise level and scale
- Strong hands-on experience of Azure PaaS and SaaS solutions, particularly AKS, Application Gateway and API Management
- Deploying automation and configuration using pipeline Azure DevOps
- Strong experience deploying secure infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Experience with secure configuration best practices and the hardening of critical systems
- Has demonstrable knowledge of DevOps in an Enterprise setting, both on public cloud (Azure) and on-premises
- 3+ years' experience as an IT Infrastructure Engineer, with focus on cloud, server, storage, and networking
- Current experience of Azure platform
- Strong understanding of cloud services & APIs and with experience in designing and moving workloads to public clouds. Good knowledge on secure cloud services.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing technologies, security, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
- Experience in using automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Used to working in a financial services or highly regulated environment.