Cloud Engineer

Use infrastructure as code to create secure, reliable cloud-based products
A market-leading portfolio software management services provider seeks a dedicated Cloud Engineer to join their friendly team of developers, product owners and testers. They take great pride in creating secure and reliable cloud–based products, providing 24/7 access to their clients.
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.
Requirements:

• 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.
  
• Good experience with Git and version control, plus experience of database administration.
  
• 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.
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