Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer (Remote)
Location: Remote, covering the UK
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full time, Permanent
About Ekco:
Founded in 2016 Ekco is now one of the fastest growing cloud solution providers in Europe!
We specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity, managing transformation and driving better outcomes from our customers’ existing technology investments.
In a few words, we take businesses to the cloud and back!
We have over 350 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in the UK, Benelux & Ireland.
This position is a remote role, open to be hired anywhere in the UK, ideally close to one of our offices in Richmond, Edinburgh, Reading, Bournemouth and/or Birmingham.
About the role:
Architecture and Orchestration
Our clients are looking for assistance navigating the vast array of services available within a public cloud, as well as expert setup and configuration in line with best-practice guidelines, complete with the requisite monitoring and alerting for the team to support ongoing.
Customer Support & Service Delivery
One of the key aspects of the role will be to assist new and existing customers on their journey to the public cloud from either on-prem or other private or public cloud services and to deploy new environments or services. We are also seeing a need to support customers with the more niche aspects of public cloud, utilising the myriad of ‘as a Service’ offerings within the stack and across the marketplace.
Our clients are looking for assistance navigating the vast array of services available within Azure, as well as expert setup and configuration in-line with best-practice guidelines, complete with the requisite monitoring and alerting for the team to support ongoing. The ideal candidate will grow into one of the ‘Product Champions’ for Azure or AWS services throughout the Ekco Group.
Also, Ekco provides a first-class service to customers, providing responsive, agile support. Another one of your responsibilities is to respond to customers’ needs including incident management, change management and work with our account managers to ensure the customers enjoy an awesome service.
Essential Skills / Experience:
- 3+ years public cloud environment design, deployment, and support experience
- Good working knowledge of core public cloud infrastructure components
- Deployment of Virtual Networks and Hybrid Cloud Networks
- Knowledge of cloud security-related services – Load Balancers, Secrets Management, Firewalls,
- Experienced with container technologies and tools such as Docker running on Kubernetes (EKS or AKS)
- Automation experience using Arm Templates, Bicep, PowerShell, or other similar tools
- Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to set up and support the platform
- Configuring Monitoring, Alerting and Dashboarding using Azure Monitor, Metrics Collection, and Log Management, or other tools
- Scripting experience in Powershell/Python or equivalent
- Confident in obtaining requirements and creating designs to meet technical challenges for our customers
- Microsoft 365, Endpoint Management, and Azure AD experience
- Translate general infrastructure concepts through a deep understanding of Public Cloud toolsets and be able to advise/recommend the appropriate solutions PaaS, IaaS, or other services to use for specific deployments
- Azure or AWS Certifications Associate level
Bonus points if you have experience with:
- Building and deploying IAC and Code Pipelines
- Building highly available scalable solutions
- Azure/AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment experience
- Knowledge of Rancher and Harbour
Why Ekco?
- Ranked as Ireland’s 4th fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards
- VMware & Veeam top partner status
- Ekco are committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
- We recognise the value of internal mobility and encourage opportunities for internal development & progression
- Flexible working with a family friendly focus are at the core of our company values
Employee perks
- Learning & development – Unlimited access to Udemy learning platform
- Time off – 25 days leave + public holidays
- x1 day Birthday leave per year
- Private Medical Healthcare with Bupa (post probation)
- A lot of responsibilities & opportunities to grow (also internationally)
- Company Pension Scheme (employer contribution 5%) + flexible salary sacrifice
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Solutions Architect, Cloud Solutions, Azure Architect, Cloud Solutions Specialist, DevOps Administrator, Systems Architect, Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer may also be considered for this role.
