Job Title: Public Cloud Architect
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Competitive depending on experience
Job type: Full time, Permanent
In January 2020, the Company became part of a larger Group, with colleagues and subsidiaries now located across UK, Ireland, and Netherlands.
The Company is a boutique UK cloud service provider, who specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity while driving better outcomes from their customers’ existing technology investments.
Their ability to deliver flexible infrastructures utilising both private and public cloud technologies coupled with our responsive, agile, and above-all hugely capable technical teams is why customers choose them above larger, slower-moving competitors and their innovative Transformation-as-a-Service approach separates them from other competitors.
Services range from traditional VMware-based infrastructure; Backup & DR, to public cloud management with AWS, Azure, and Google; as well as newer PaaS & Dev-Ops and Containerisation services.
Due to their continued expansion into 2021, they’re searching for a talented Public Cloud Architect to join the dynamic and growing technical team based in Edinburgh.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Customer Support
The company provides managed cloud and network services, and the ability to provide responsive, agile, and above-all intelligent support is why customers choose them above larger, slower-moving competitors. As a Cloud Architect one of your primary responsibilities is to respond to customer support enquiries, tickets, and change requests.
Automation and Orchestration
If the company have to carry out a menial task more than once, it’s best to automate it. They have no desire to expand to 100 desks of junior support staff carrying out basic server checks and password resets – far better to write microservices to poll the infrastructure, well-structured alerts with intelligent automated escalations, and CI pipelines to run periodic tests.
You will have automated deployment experience, including orchestration tools such as Puppet or Ansible, as well as CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab. Automation of alerting using Nagios or Solarwinds is also desirable.
Knowledge, Skills and Traits Required:
Essential
- Good technical knowledge and understanding of the public cloud landscape
- Public cloud certified (Azure / AWS) and relevant experience deploying and managing cloud based applications
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Experienced with container technologies and tooling such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Automation experience using Puppet and/or Ansible
- Configuring and managing CI/CD tools
- Configuration management
- Working using version control software
- High level of written and spoken English
- High standard of documentation
Desirable
- At least one scripting language (such as PowerShell or Python)
- VMware vSphere knowledge
- Linux Server Administration
Personal
- Confident self-starter. Able to learn quickly, use your own initiative and be motivated to get the job done effectively
- Use a consultative, positive, solution-focused mentality at all times with a proactive and can-do attitude
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail
- Hands-on, self-organised, innovative, accountable, versatile
- Copes well under pressure and with uncertainty
- Excellent team player
- Self-motivated to learn new technologies (evidence self-taught development)
Please click on the APPLY button to complete your application at the Company’s careers page.
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Cloud Management, Cloud Engineer, DevOps Administrator, Systems Developer, Cloud Automation Engineer, Systems Support, Systems Architect, Software Support, Lead Systems Support, Coder, Software Architect, Systems Manager, Coding, Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer may also be considered for this role.
