Cloud Engineer

The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for creating AWS infrastructure, using a variety of technologies to define infrastructure code and automate workflows, ensuring fast and effective deployment to multiple environments. This will require a deep understanding of a range of cloud services, virtual machines and their metrics. The languages and tools used include: Terraform, Bash, C#, Python, Docker and containers.

You will be an excellent communicator; able to explain complex systems to experts and those less familiar with the technical details. You enjoy learning new skills and adopting technologies, as well as the challenge of troubleshooting, finding ingenious, reliable and secure solutions to issues, whilst helping prevent problems occurring in the future., * Demonstrable commercial experience as a cloud engineer including providing support within an operational environment. This should be evidenced working within the same company on multiple projects over a long time period.

• Good skills with AWS or other cloud provider, including some of the following: API management, serverless compute and databases, Docker and containerization, CI/CD. Additional experience engineering technology around on-prem servers would be beneficial.
• Engineering mindset to solving problems rather than only operational understanding.
• Good experience with Git and version control, plus experience of database administration and networking.
• Excellent communications skills and comfortable providing on-call support.
• Full existing rights to work in the UK, without time limit.

Company culture is important to the team, and they are looking to hire someone who wants to grow their career within them for the next few years. Further, due to offices being in Cambridge, their strong preference is for someone who resides locally. Applicants who would require to commute long distances to attend onsite meetings will not be considered. For the hired engineer, hybrid working options are available (2-3 days WFH) when projects allow. On offer is an excellent remuneration package is available, commensurate with skills and experience.

Keywords: Cloud Services, AWS, Terraform / IaC, API Management, CI/CD, Docker, Containers, Hybrid-working, Cambridge, Virtual Machines.