Cloud Engineer

OverviewEnd dateFriday 24 May 2024Salary range£78,849 - £87,610We support agile workingClick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working OptionsJob Share; Hybrid WorkingJOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer - Personalised Experiences & Communications PlatformSALARY: £78,849 - £87,610LOCATION(S): LondonHOURS: [Full-time]WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London OfficeAbout this opportunity...This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Cloud Engineer. As the Cloud Engineer you\'ll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You\'ll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.What you’ll do:This is a key role in the team so you will have the opportunity work with all our feature teams to establish the cloud patterns and principles of the team in line with the Group’s methodologies.You’ll focus on the cloud elements of the solutions, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly while continuously improving and developing our processes.You will be responsible for the build & support for shared hosting services such as Kubernetes, Ingress/Egress, Networking patterns, Certificates & data resourcesYou’ll focus on the cloud engineering elements of the software engineering role, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly in the cloud while continuously improving and developing our processes.You’ll help us to learn and implement the best use of DevOps tools & cloud resources, like Jenkins, Kubernetes, Harness and help us maintain our hosting platform.Creating and improving routes to live with automation including blue/green & canary strategies.Configure and improve observability controls.Proving scalability/resilience and security controls.Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering teams.About us...Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too...What we are looking forAn ideal Cloud Engineer will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence. We are looking for a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You\'ll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.We would be looking for the following...We are looking for someone who comes from a DevOps, Cloud or Software engineering background that has a solid understanding of Cloud delivery, best practices, processes and supporting tools.We would also look for -Strong Cloud Engineering and DevOps exposure preferably GCPProven experience and understanding of cloud native solutionsProven experience configuring & running production workloads in KubernetesCI/CD & IaC tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Sonar, Nexus, Git, Spinnaker, HarnessStrong understanding & experience of Observability, SRE, DevSecOps & FinOpsGood understanding of cloud networking & connectivity patternsGood understanding of key data tooling such as Kafka, BigTable, DataProc, BigQuery etc..It would be great if you also had...Network protocols & securityChaos TestingContract TestingAPIGEEJava Spring BootKafkaMicroservicesOur focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%• An annual performance-related bonus• Share schemes including free shares.• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policiesReady for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.Join our journey. #J-18808-Ljbffr