Role: Senior Engineer (Cloud Platform)

Location: London Paddington, Hybrid

Department/Practice:

Technology Delivery, Cloud Platform

Special working conditions (travel, on call etc.):

Might need to travel to London Paddington Office for 3 days a week

The Role

• Will be part of the Cloud Platform Engineering team and drive the solution/engineering practices. Will be leading the engineering forum within cloud portfolio.
• As you peruse the points below, remember that we place more emphasis on a positive and eager attitude than on existing expertise.
• Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions, focusing on compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security.
• Collaborate with Azure Platform engineers, architects, and other stakeholders in the implementation of an Enterprise Scale platform and Landing zones
• Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, encouraging best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
• Automate everything using Terraform, Shell, Powershell and Python
• Develop test for infrastructure using Terratest, integration test and end to end testing.
• To ensure knowledge articles of all supported systems are continually updated.
• To provide a high level of customer service, whilst working under pressure.
• To follow and adhere to established Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management procedures.
• Builds a strong performing team, sets clear expectations and goals based on OKRs and KPls, manages execution, stays within budget, proactively solves issues.
• Work alongside architects, developers, and other engineers to ensure efficient Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone platforms.
• Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance.
• Working autonomously and use the opportunity to create exemplars, frameworks, or other platform products to enhance the ability of others to work autonomously or in collaborative way to use cloud and tooling ecosystems.
• Apply DevOps principles in solving operational problems through extreme and innovative automations and solutions.
• Design and drive roadmaps, outcomes, and collaborative projects.
• Translate vision into strategy.
• Provide technical leadership for the team with limited guidance from management or senior teammates.
• Uses solid understanding of cloud, 6Rs of migration and emerging understanding of how that domain interacts with cloud products in the design of technical solutions.
• Explores industry best practices and influences application of the most relevant and effective solutions in the activities performed day to day.
• Monitor the environment by collecting data and providing analytics on customer behavior, performance, errors.
• Focused on Efficiency, Automation and reducing manual tasks in Operations for both Apps and Infra
• Improve the Reliability of system in production and fixing issues by digging into code, identify the issue and contribute a fix back to the code base.
• Be an Escalation point for severity incident.
• Update knowledge management procedures, handbooks, and Writing reports.
• Contributing to the tool chain and shared stack managed by orchestras and fellowships and more generally taking an active role in these engineering communities.

Your Profile

Key skills/knowledge/experience:

Experience:

• 10+ years of overall experience with a minimum of 6+ years of experience on Cloud Technologies

Technical Skills:

• Experience in designing, developing, and implementing single cloud, or hybrid Azure Platform solutions.
• Can demonstrate deep knowledge in setting up Azure Enterprise grade platform and hands on experience with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Experience with Azure cloud native components.
• Proficiency in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices.
• Experience in infrastructure as code (IaS) using tools like Terraform, and Github.
• Experience in writing programming in Python (MUST) and Go (Preferrable)
• Hands on experience with Windows/Linux Servers.
• Proactive incident management with Azure-based troubleshooting.
• Sound understanding of platform products in the market.
• Previous roles involving Azure administration, Azure development, and/or DevOps processes.
• Experience in creating APIs and Microservices.
• Experience in database tasks such as Creating Procedures, schemas, database, writing queries, tuning the queries and analyse workload reports.
• Experience in Linux, Kubernetes and Docker technologies.
• Experience in Azure Cloud compute, storage, network and other services.
• Experience in building the CiCD solution from scratch to automate all steps involved in the end-to-end path to production for Application
• Experience in Azure DevOps/Github Actions
• Experience in application, infrastructure, performance monitoring and alerting using tools.
• Deliver SOP to resolve incidents in production.
• Experience in implementing the security practices in the application stack.
• Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing tools

Good to have:

• Resourcefulness
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Logical thinking
• Good analytical skills
• Problem solving skills
• Collaboration Skills
• Good knowledge in ITIL process.
• Good automation skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and collaborative interpersonal communication skills