Senior Cloud Engineer – Oworx Public Cloud

Salary: £72,000 – £96,000 per year

At Oworx, every day is a fresh challenge. We live and breathe cloud technology, providing the industry’s leading Public Cloud talent to offer the highest level of specialist expertise and deliver meaningful outcomes for our customers.

Our culture is what binds us; everyone contributes; everyone’s voice matters.

At Oworx, enjoying what we do is a serious business.

You enjoy using new technologies to help our clients increase the pace and efficiency of solution delivery. Driven by curiosity, you constantly explore ways of improving and enhancing the components you develop and are constantly building new skills.

You thrive in a collaborative, creative and productive team environment where ideas are freely exchanged, and innovative concepts evolve into practical solutions.

You can take a primary On-Call shifts and you will work closely with your teammates to work through our Kanban board.

What you bring:
• Cloud Skills – Understanding of cloud terminology, architecture, and tools including provisioning and monitoring
• Network Skills – Understanding of basic networking design concepts and TCP/IP
• Infrastructure Skills – Familiar with a variety of operating systems and understanding of virtual machines
• Flexibility—comfortable with evolving solutions and finding the most effective path to implementation
• 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
• Comfortable in an iterative environment, experience with Agile/Scrum based initiatives
• Collaboration- Strong communication and collaborative skills in providing technical direction and hands-on software deployment.
• You’re a self-starter – given a problem, you’ll dig to find possible solutions, and work with your team when needed
• Experience with one or more non-shell scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Go)
• Linux/Unix CLI experience
• Interest in automating infrastructure in one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Interest in learning about configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Packer)
• Familiarity with containers and Docker, Kubernetes
• Familiarity with management and maintenance of database/persistence technologies (Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Strong documentation, both inside the code, and written word for general consumption
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and debugging in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

Duties and Responsibilities

• Creation and maintenance of full suite of AWS Terraform modules
• Design of customer facing and internal tooling to manage and automate cloud infrastructure
• Run tooling design workshops with offshore developers to move designs through development cycle and into production
• Enable the offshore build and support of customer solutions, leveraging automation and delivery mechanisms for efficiency and scalability
• Enable offshore teams to provide transition support for AWS Cloud environments
• AWS/Azure/GCP platform changes of high complexity
• Troubleshooting issues of the highest complexity
• Drive strong customer satisfaction (NPS) through Exceptional Support
• Effective prioritisation of workload
• Support the success and development of others in the team
• Participate in technical solution and design discussions
• Perform proofs of concept and comprehensive solutions throughout the development lifecycle
• Utilize open-source tools, automation, and cloud services to implement enterprise DevOps solutions
• Add new features while improving efficiency, reliability, and scalability to address client needs
• Gather information to deliver weekly reports to clients
• Work closely with senior engineers, other team members and application owners to solve technical problems at the network, system and application levels.
• Programming/development experience including use of repositories (e.g., GitHub) and deployment in multi-tier environment
• Comfortable in an iterative environment, experience with Agile/Scrum based initiatives
• Provide technical direction and hands-on software deployment.

Nice if you have:

• Hands-on experience scaling and managing production systems and software delivery infrastructure.
• You know how to ensure that we are compliant with various security-related standards, such as SOC2
• Can build new infrastructure, maintain existing infrastructure, and ensure that feature teams have everything that they need to write, test, and continuously deploy their code to production.

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