Senior Cloud Engineer (Aws & Azure)

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We are hiring 2 different types of Cloud Engineers:

• Senior Azure Engineer
• Senior AWS Engineer

What you’ll do as a Senior Cloud Engineer

• work with architects, engineers and security colleagues to help design AWS infrastructure and services that will run efficiently and securely. (AWS)
• be responsible for building and maintaining our AWS infrastructure, using Github and Terraform to deploy infrastructure as code. (AWS)
• be responsible for writing and maintaining documentation in relation to the AWS infrastructure, including change requests, design documents, configuration, user guidance and policy documents. (AWS)
• develop, provision and maintain Azure infrastructure and services in the cloud, using configuration-defined patterns so that standard pipelines can be used for deployment (Azure)
• improving the quality of deployment, monitoring, and security automation of Azure infrastructure and related services (Azure)
• provide technical support for existing and new technology used within the Azure environment (excluding Entra ID and Intune) and other technology areas as agreed, owning resolution of service issues (Azure)

What we’re looking for

• extensive experience building and running Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform core services such as, compute, networking, storage and security. (Azure)

• experience of automation; using scripting languages (eg powershell), Infrastructure-as-code (preferably Terraform) and version control systems such as Git and GitHub to deploy services in Azure. (Azure)
• experience with Microsoft Office 365 services and offerings (Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Teams) (Azure)
• experience with AWS Cloud Engineer and implementation experience with AWS Cloud Practitioner certification (AWS)
• experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3 (AWS)
• experience writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using Terraform. (AWS)