Cloud Platforms Engineer - Digital

Job Title: Cloud Platforms Engineer - Digital

Position Summary:

As a key member of the Compute Engineering & Architecture team you will be responsible for advancing the introduction and development of Cloud Platforms and environments in support of Digital team initiatives and providing ongoing maintenance support.

The role will suit an individual who enjoys working collaboratively with Engineers and Architects to create holistic solutions incorporating a wide range of systems and technologies, and who is able to bring creativity to the solutioning process.

You will work closely with other Engineers who have specialized skills while cross-training within ADMs core technologies. Both they and you, will be constantly learning from each other.

Role Responsibilities:

• Create innovative cloud solutions and designs within defined standards, or proposing new standards when required, ensuring that designs work holistically within larger solutions.
• In close collaboration with cross functional architecture teams, develop strategies and roadmaps which support the introduction and continuous improvement of Cloud Platforms.
• Actively assist in the development of a cloud automation model to support digital solutions and introduce infrastructure automation solutions across a variety of cloud environments, identifying where automation should be used, and working with operations teams to implement solutions.
• Work closely with the other Tech Ops teams to identify, test, and implement monitoring and automation tools across the cloud platforms and estate.
• Design roadmap implementation projects, communicating with stakeholders and operations teams to ensure delivery.
• Maintain a good awareness of Operations activities through regular communication with operations leads and by attending update meetings.
• Create build instructions for engineering designs and support operations teams during implementation.
• Undertake requirements analysis of incoming requests ensuring deliverables are clearly understood and agreed with stakeholders.
• Proactively seek out opportunities for continuous improvement of systems and processes and propose improvement activities.
• Incorporate security-by-design into all solutions, ensuring that security requirements are considered concurrently with technical requirements.
• Work closely with Teach Ops tower leads as an escalation point, providing SME support to operations teams assisting with P1/P2 incident resolution.
• Liaise with 3rd.party vendors when appropriate to create engineering solutions and continuous improvement proposals.
• Collaborate with Architects to propose, review and implement new standards and technologies.
• Carry out continuous personal development, ensuring technical skills are kept up to date and non-technical skills are gained and improved.
• Develop a base cross functional technical knowledge allowing holistic thinking during design processes.
• Carry out technical reviews of change requests and designs created by other teams.
• Work with Operations teams to analyze RCAs and design action plans.

Role Requirements:

Essential:

• 7+ years extensive and deep experience of implementing and developing cloud platforms and cloud automation in Microsoft Azure, including provisioning and administration activities and supporting IaC and CaC, using automation technologies (Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ignio) within cloud environments.
• A knowledge and experience of scripting and programming languages (PowerShell, Azure JSON and Bicep, Python)
• Experience of integrating cloud technologies with a broad range of monitoring tools, in particular CA UIM and DOI.
• A broad knowledge and understanding of Infrastructure systems and technologies
• IaaS Compute & Storage
• Networking & Security
• Databases
• Virtualization
• PaaS provisioning and configurations
• DR, BC, and HA technologies
• AD, AAD, Hybrid AAD and AAD DS
• DNS & Azure DNS
• Experience of holistic infrastructure engineering solutions comprising multiple elements including
• On premise private cloud and multiple public cloud environments
• Integrations between segregated network zones such as OT, iDMZ/DMZ, IT
• Incorporating cloud and middleware capabilities
• Experience of creating technology roadmaps based on strategy inputs
• Ability to carry out requirements analysis and create detailed engineering solution designs using Visio
• Experience in providing engineering expertise to Operations teams in support of incident and request resolution
• Ability to create low level implementation and build documentation

Advantageous:

A working knowledge and experience of implementing infrastructure automation within multiple cloud environments such as:

• AWS
• GCP
• IBM
• Oracle
• SAP