Technical Expert

**The role**:
As a hybrid cloud engineering you will enable academic endeavours by delivering high-level professional expertise and carrying out sophisticated techniques. Interpret, evaluate and present data from outputs based on expert knowledge in area of practice.

**What will you be doing?**:
You will provision of specialist solutions within hybrid cloud computing including both public cloud providers and on-premises clouds; typical duties might include:

- Using high-level expertise, collaborate with key stakeholders including Principal Investigators, researchers, external customers, or other service users to deliver specialist technical services.
- Develop creative and innovative solutions in area of expertise, to advance research methods and practices.
- Operate, service, maintain and develop JOINER hybrid cloud environment to support experimental research; diagnose and rectify complex problems to find short and long-term solutions.
- Evaluate, interpret, analyse, and present complex data from outputs
- Contribute to wider developments and changes in the JOINER hybrid cloud environment.
- Design, build and/or adapt specialist architectures and functions to provide innovative solutions.
- Expert technical input into specialist purchases, liaise with relevant contacts and suppliers to ensure fit for purpose solutions and cost effectiveness.
- Write risk assessments and method statements/standard operating procedures (SOPs), or provide guidance to service users, ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines.
- Share professional expertise and contribute to knowledge exchange in specialist field.
- If you have extensive experience in the specific area of practice including:

- Multitenancy concepts in both On-prem and public cloud
- Virtualization & On-Prem Cloud (VMware) including:

- vSphere/ESXi, vCenter Server, NSX, vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation, TCA, vCloud Director, VMware Load Balancers, VMware Tanzu.
- Public Cloud (AWS) including:

- Core AWS Services: Landing zone and Control tower, VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS, etc.
- Networking: VPC peering, VPNs, Direct Connect, Route Tables, NAT Gateway, Security Groups.
- Security & Identity: IAM policies, roles, federation, AWS Organizations, KMS.
- Automation: CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform (if using infrastructure-as-code).
- Cost Management: Budgets, Cost Explorer, Reserved Instances, tagging strategy.
- Strong skills in creating and maintaining design documentation.

Please evidence the above in your cover letter.

**Additional information**:
**To find out more about what it's like to work in the Faculty of Engineering, and how the Faculty supports people to achieve their potential, please see our staff blog**:
**Contract type: Open ended with fixed funding until 30/06/2026**

**Work pattern: Full time**

**Grade: K**

**Salary: £49,559 - £55,755 per annum**

**School/Unit: School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering**

**This advert will close**at**23:59 UK time**on**Thursday 31st July.**

**Interviews are expected to take place on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th August.**

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JOB NUMBER**

**SUPP112396**:

CONTRACT TYPE/WORK PATTERN**

**Open ended / Full time**:

POSTING END DATE**

**31 Jul 2025**:

FACULTY/DIVISION**

**Faculty of Engineering**:

SALARY**

**£49,559 - £55,755 per annum**: