Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Senior – SC Cleared

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Assignment background:

Cloud and Enablement Cloud team- deal with requests for cloud engineers within multidisciplinary teams, delivering in sprints. Currently a 1 cloud shop on Azure, looking to use the cloud engineers for pad services on Azure through code and devops principals and practises

Technologies/systems used:

• Azure
• Azure integration stack- logic and function apps- API management- service bus - Azure static
• Testo
• Terraform
• Dynatrace
• VMWare Log Insight
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift

Core day to day duties:

• Working in a cross-functional delivery team to utilise cloud technologies effectively.

• Working collaboratively with other specialist engineers to accelerate delivery.

• Applying a continuous improvement mindset and exploring innovation opportunities in cloud technologies, using a fail-fast approach.

• Applying agreed security standards to all work and ensuring required security requirements are achieved.

• Sharing knowledge and expertise to enable all members of the team to work in an automated, repeatable fashion.

• Creating and encouraging infrastructure-as-code as part of project delivery.

• Designing and implementing cloud governance strategies to ensure our cloud estate is effectively managed.

• Supporting and continual improvement of deployed cloud technologies.

• Integration of cloud solutions with new or existing logging and monitoring technologies.

• Provide technical consultancy, expertise and advice to all managers and teams within IT.

• Drive your own self-development aligned with the organisations’ IT strategy

• Identify opportunities to develop more efficient business and IT solutions

• Pro-actively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF)

• Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values.

Key skills:

• Experience with cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code approaches to managing cloud resources specifically Terraform to a high standard

Experience of testing in powershark

• Experience of working within agile teams for rapid delivery

• Understanding of security in cloud

• Understanding of appropriate governance for rapid delivery and support on cloud

• Experience with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile

• Experience of monitoring and logging tools such as Dynatrace, VMWare Log Insight, ELK stack

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift

• Experience with Microsoft Azure

• Influencing, both inside an IT department, and across the organisation

• Understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in a DevOps environment

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins

• Experience of working in an ITIL environment, including knowledge of ITSM processes

• Strong Lynix skills

• Understanding of cloud networking and connectivity.