Senior Cloud Engineer

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Made Tech

Senior Cloud Engineer

£45k

£63k

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Description

Hybrid requirements: 2 days per month in the office.

Based within the Cloud & Engineering Practice, our Senior Cloud Engineers help public sector organisations to deliver digital services that are highly available, reliable, resilient and secure. They are software engineers who tend to focus more on the successful deployment and operations of services than on functional development. They are adaptable and comfortable covering a range of disciplines such as DevOps, SRE and infrastructure architecture.

Role Profile

You will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our clients’ cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and highly available. You will provide dedicated cloud and infrastructure expertise within your team and advise on best practice. We expect our cloud engineers to have a background in and thorough understanding of software engineering. You will keep abreast of emerging technologies and be able to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary software delivery environment. You will be expected to maintain a broad technical knowledge across all major cloud platforms and build credibility by pursuing relevant certifications.

Requirements

Responsibilities

Delivery of high quality cloud-based technical solutions for our clients:

Collaborate within cross-functional teams to design cloud architectures that meet the client’s requirements around scalability, performance, and security. Deploy and manage cloud resources, containers, and related services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation. Configure and maintain networking, security, and access control in the cloud environment. Implement and maintain robust security practices to protect data and resources in the cloud environment. Develop and maintain automated processes for provisioning, monitoring, and scaling cloud resources, including the use of CI/CD pipelines to streamline application deployments. Monitor cloud infrastructure for performance bottlenecks and proactively optimise resource usage. Implement load balancing, caching, and content delivery solutions to ensure high availability and performance. Design and maintain backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity in the event of system failures or data loss. Create and maintain runbooks including configuration management and standard operating procedures. Provide high tier support for client applications and infrastructure, including occasional on call cover.

Evangelising the adoption of cloud technology and adherence to prescribed best practices:

Evaluate and recommend cloud services, tools, and solutions to meet common client scenarios… Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, and share knowledge with the team. Collaborate with other teams within Made Tech to ensure alignment with cloud best practices. Line manage and mentor more junior colleagues to support their development, pursuit of career goals and management of their overall performance.

Essential skills

Significant prior experience in a cloud engineering role, with a strong foundation in successfully building and deploying services in the cloud. A deep knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP. Hands on experience delivering software using multiple programming languages and a thorough knowledge of modern software engineering best practices. Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes). Experience working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technical disciplines all successfully collaborating.

Desirable skills

Experience working in a technology consultancy environment. Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer, DevOps Engineer, Security, Advanced Networking or Azure Developer, Security, DevOps, Network Engineer. Knowledge of cloud vendor partner programs, such as AWS APN and Azure Partners. Experience with well-architected frameworks. Knowledge of UK public sector technology guidance and frameworks, such as NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and the Technology Code of Practice (TCoP). Familiarity with python, bash and javascript. Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban. Experience using Test Driven Development (TDD).

Role tech stack

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

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Culture overview

We are Transparent We're building an open and transparent company across the UK, full of people who are passionate about their work, who always strive to be better, who love to help others grow and who care about using digital and technology to create a better, fairer society. We Make a Difference We focus our efforts on building meaningful, open source services that can help improve citizens' lives. We find this type of work more challenging and more rewarding. Less short-lived, throwaway projects, more mission-critical systems and services. We Continuously Improve We see the importance and value in self-improvement. We have regular code dojos, show and tells, reviews and other reflective practices we aim to encourage growth. One of the biggest ways we have committed to developing our skills is Learn Tech Fridays. We Learn Learn Tech consists of a number of tracks, where every Friday afternoon the whole company comes together to focus on learning new or developing existing skills. This is a constantly evolving programme and we are working with our team's feedback to keep improving it going forward. We support individuals with 12 days' paid learning each year, plus an individual learning budget. We are here to stay We are building a lasting organisation in which our people can grow with the business. We try to think hard about how to best approach every aspect of what we do to create the most enjoyable and productive environment. We are Inclusive We want to foster a diverse, happy and well-supported team. D&I isn't just something we pay lip service to. The services we help build will be used by people around the country. So it’s important to us that the teams that build them reflect this diversity too. Wherever you are on your career path. Whatever your background and experience. If you’re passionate about using technology to make life better for everyone, we absolutely want to hear from you. Certifications We see workplace engagement as a vital part of our continued success in empowering our employees to have a positive impact on the public sector. We are extremely proud to have received certifications from Best Companies for our continued commitment to making Made Tech a great place to work. Technology’s 50 Best Companies to Work For in London for 2021 Technology’s 50 Best Companies to Work For in the South West for 2021 Outstanding to Work for 2-Star Accreditation for 2021

Employee benefits

Cycle To Work

Flexible Hours

Flexible Working

Laptop

Learning Allowance

Life Insurance

Pension

Season Ticket Loan

Unlimited Holidays

Office vibe

Beer Fridge

City Centre

Friday Drinks

Office Dog

Open Plan

Social Events

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Leadership

Ben Collier

Head of Cloud and Engineering

Tech overview

We want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society, for everyone. We work with public sector organisations to modernise technology and working practices, and accelerate digital delivery so that citizens can benefit from better public services. We're transparent about what we do and how we do it, which is why we publish everything about us here: https://github.com/madetech/handbook We grow a team of polyglot programmers, comfortable using several programming languages. Our teams can work across a variety of technologies and you will need to be comfortable doing so too. Our teams have used Ruby with Rails and Sinatra, ES6 with React and Angular, C# with .NET Core, Java with Spring, Python with Django, and plenty more stacks. We don’t limit ourselves as a company to particular technologies and we expect all our engineers to be keen on learning new skills. You will need to be comfortable sharing your knowledge and skills with others. We’d love to hear some examples of mentoring, coaching and growing team members. Maybe you will have written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two. High performing software delivery teams need to be empowered to deliver changes all the way through to production. To do this we combine our extensive cloud automation knowledge with DevOps culture. We've been using AWS from the start and as Advanced Partners are go to experts within the public sector. We use a range of IaaS, PaaS and FaaS depending on the needs of our users, in this case software teams, such as EC2, Lambda, ECS, Kubernetes, Heroku, CloudFoundry, Azure App Services, and more. We use VPC and PrivateLink for connecting to on-premise, legacy systems. We also use API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, SES, RDS, and many other services provided by AWS. You will have the opportunity to use and learn these technologies and we offer official AWS and other cloud training. We ensure we document our architecture and infrastructure as code, using technologies such as Terraform and OpenAPI. Containerisation is a big part of empowering our teams to develop, deploy and scale their applications, but so too is using AWS Lambda and avoiding the complexity of stateful services altogether. Right tool for the job. For us, DevOps is about culture rather than roles and titles. Even though this role is for someone with strong DevOps experience, the biggest impact you will have is coaching and helping teams use the platforms you build. You won't be building infrastructure in isolation or charged with deploying other peoples work into production. You'll empower teams with the mantra: you build it, you run it!