Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Possible remote/ hybrid working - Head Office midlands 

Nationwide Recruitment Service (NRS) are recruiting a self-motivated and inspirational Cloud engineer.

The role will pay up to £60,000 with excellent benefits e.g., EV scheme, Pension, Subsidized Gym Membership + more!

Nationwide Recruitment Service’s (NRS’s) client use a Continuous Delivery methodology that applies automation wherever possible to orchestrate and deploy software internally and externally. Due to growth, this practice of managing and transitioning software assets will benefit from new tooling for software orchestration, continuous integration, and automation. Hence recruit an innovative Cloud Engineer within this space to stay ahead of the market.

Cloud Engineer Responsibilities:

Support and Maintain Cloud infrastructure and architecture

Support and Maintain NRS clients AWS and Azure Cloud services

Liaise with NRS clients technical Architects to ensure quality of service is consistently provided to NRS clients cloud systems

Perform disaster recovery (DR) and failover testing on NRS clients cloud systems to test the build quality on service continuity

Provided End to end (From gathering Design requirements to Go live) assistance for the projects liaising with project Managers and technical Architects filling the technical gaps between them

Responsible for capacity planning and proposing the required resources to existing various (VMware and AWS, Azure) virtual infrastructure such as No. of CPUs, claiming back Unused drive space and RAM.

Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, both developers and non-developers

Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a Continuous Deployment environment.

Work with support teams to produce documentation sets 

Manage the configuration of all Cloud systems, both internal and external to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems at all times.

Manage the tools and infrastructure within our release and deployment pipelines to provide better analytics and fast feedback on all processes.

Automate procedures within the release and deployment pipeline, including testing and validation of releases, to enhance our validation of safe software delivery.

Cloud Engineer Requirements:

Experience and knowledge of MS Azure, AWS and Private Clouds to build, test, and support a range of applications and series

System administration and configuration management skills within an AWS and Azure environment

Cloud Engineer Experience and knowledge:

VMware

Windows Server and SQL Server

Security standards such as ISO 27001

Switching, routing, Cisco ASAv, VPNs, PWAN/MPLS

Cloud migrations & Integration

Proxy services

Infrastructure upgrades

An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Experience working on technical projects within a team

Unix-like operating systems such as Linux

Cloud infrastructure and applications, experience and expertise delivering, managing and maintaining client environments.

Automation of key release and delivery processes, such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible

Financial Services, building society or banking technology professionals, IT security best practice, and deep networking knowledge would be highly advantageous

Have you experience of AWS and Azure Cloud services

Have you experience of Switching, routing, Cisco ASAv, VPNs, PWAN/MPLS

Have you experience of Cloud migrations & Integration

Have you experience of Proxy services

Have you experience of Infrastructure upgrades

Have you experience of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux

Have you experience of Automation of key release and delivery processes, such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible

This role may consider hybrid some remote working so commutable from:

Aberdeen, Armagh, Bangor, Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Buckinghamshire Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Canterbury, Cardiff, Carlisle. Chelmsford Cheshire, Chester, Chichester,  Colchester Cornwall, County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Londonderry, Coventry, Cumbria, Denbighshire, Derby, Derbyshire, Devon, Doncaster, Dundee, Dunfermline, Durham, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Sussex, Edinburgh, Ely, Essex, Exeter, Fife, Glamorgan, Glasgow, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Gwynedd, Hampshire, Hereford, Hertfordshire, Highland, Inverness, Kent, Kingston upon Hull, Lancashire, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lichfield, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lisburn, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Merseyside, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newport City, Newport, Newry, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Norwich, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Pembrokeshire, Perth and Kinross, Perth, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston,  Ripon, Salford, Salisbury, Sheffield, Somerset, South Yorkshire, Southampton, Southend-on-Sea, St Albans, St Asaph (Llanelwy), St Davids, Staffordshire, Staffordshire, Solihull, Knowle, Tamworth, Birmingham Airport, Lichfield, Stratford upon Avon, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland , Swansea, Truro, Tyne and Wear, Wakefield. Wells West Midlands West Midlands West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster. Wiltshire, Winchester, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Worcestershire, Wrexham, York