Public Cloud Product Engineer

Salary: £26,000 per year

SCC is a leading IT services provider across the UK and EMEA; spanning 45 years of heritage and helping thousands of commercial and public sector clients adopt and evolve their use of IT over this time. Today the business generates £2.3B revenue with over 1800 employees in the UK.

With the advent of public cloud services SCC were quick to realise the importance and disruptive impact this technology would bring; it was clear that our customers and many organisations across multiple sectors need the power of Public Cloud to realise their full potential. Many businesses either lack the capacity or capability to successfully architect, deploy, manage and secure their applications on cloud infrastructure or native cloud services, or would prefer to focus on their core business rather than invest in training and maintaining the internal talent required to benefit from automation and cloud tooling.

To tackle these challenges SCC launched its “born in the cloud” Hyperscale brand to demonstrate its commitment to this area of the market

Here, every day is a fresh challenge. We live and breathe cloud technology, nurturing the industry’s leading talent so we can offer the highest level of specialist expertise. Our culture is what binds us; everyone can contribute; everyone’s voice matters. Enjoying what we do is a serious business.

The Role

Our Cloud Product Architecture team are made up the most technically minded individuals in our industry. This team is about building the future for SCC Hyperscale within the Azure & AWS Platforms. The role of Product Engineer is to take the lead in building out the solutions designed by the Product Architects, before creating the templates and scripts to deploy at scale. This role is very hands on with all the latest technology within Public Cloud environment.

The perfect candidate

•Passion for cloud technologies with a willingness to learn

•You work best in an environment of rapid change

•Open Minded, Positive, Creative, and Collaborative approach to technical problem solving

•Strong technical background in Azure. Infrastructure and/or application tier.

•Start-up mentality

•Technology minded

•Technical achiever with strong team working skills

•Cloud Evangelist

Duties and Responsibilities

•Creation of templates and scripts to aid the deployment of our Reference Architecture, design standards, policies, and processes to improve working efficiencies 

•Input to the Azure and AWS product and services roadmaps

•Implementation of internal tooling to manage and automate cloud infrastructure

•Explorer, implement and test new technologies and solutions to bring to market

•Build out our automation platform, enabling repeatable solution implementation for our customers

•Contribute to the Oworx Cloud Adoption Framework processes, documentation, and tools

•Maintain knowledge of new Azure and AWS based solutions 

•Input in the requirement gathering exercises for new tools and solutions

•Work Internally with Product Architects and Product Managers on the blueprints and standard service offerings that underpin SCC client facing offerings

•Provide mentorship to other architects and principal engineers

Required Skills 

•Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer Certifications

•Azure – understanding of Azure architecture including

oAzure Kubernetes (AKS) and other containerisation platforms

oAzure Functions and Serverless architectures

oAzure Sentinel and Security technologies

oAzure Machine Learning and other AI technologies Terraform or other infrastructure as code 

•Network Skills – Understanding of networking design concepts and security. Ensuring the connectivity and security of our platform

•Security Skills – Knowledge of information assurance compliance and information security basics

•Development Skills – Programming/development experience including use of repositories (e.g. GitHub) and deployment in multi-tier environment

•Infrastructure Skills – Familiar with a variety of operating systems and understanding of virtual machines

•Database Technology · Familiarity with management and maintenance of database/persistence technologies 

•Experience with Cloud Native technologies (Rubrik / Jenkins etc)

•Understanding of the Cloud Adoption Framework

•Demonstrable Azure based cloud architecture and migration skills and experience covering Azure VPC, High availability and DR, Migration assessments and ASR, scalability and resilience patterns, landing zones and security design.

•Deep understanding and practical application of automation

•Understanding of programme and project management methodologies

•Current holder of or ability to obtain security clearance

•5+ years’ experience as a Technical Specialist or similar with focus on Azure, AWS, Cloud Computing, storage, and networking

•Experience with Terraform and/or 

Great to have

•Good understanding of one or more programming languages

•Exposure to monitoring solutions

•Linux O/S experience (RHEL, CentOS and Ubuntu)

•Azure Sentinel

Communication

•Ability to communicate with internal and customer stakeholders in professional manner

Personal Attitude

•Logical approach to problem solving.

•Able to identify when a problem may require escalation.

•Excellent time management and priority determination skills.

•Polite and constructive whist dealing with all customers.

•Maintain a high standard of work and professionalism.

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