Job Title: Cloud / DevOps Engineer
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full time, Permanent
About Ekco:
Ekco is a global innovator in cloud solutions. 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 330 (and counting) colleagues across a number of regional offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Our team members enjoy collaboration in family-friendly working environments that support personal autonomy, development & goal-centred ambition, and an overall shared commitment to deliver market-leading cloud services.
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. The ideal candidate will act as one of the ‘Product Champions’ for Cloud services throughout the Ekco Group.
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.
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 Vnets/VPC’s
- Knowledge of cloud security-related services – Load Balancers, Secrets Management, Firewalls,
- Experienced with container technologies and tools such as Docker running on Fargate, ECS, and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Automation experience using Cloudformation, Ansible, Puppet, or other similar tools
- Experienced in using version control software (Gitlab/Github) for configuration management
- Configuring Monitoring, Alerting and Dashboarding using Cloudwatch, 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
- 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
Bonus points if you have experience with:
- Building and deploying IAC and Code Pipelines
- Building highly available scalable solutions
- Migrating systems from traditional Infrastructure to AWS
- Azure/AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Knowledge of Rancher and Harbour
Why Ekco?
- We are one of the fastest-growing cloud solution providers in Europe
- Our company culture is exceptional and comes from a shared vision of delivering marketing leading cloud services in an unbeatable work environment
- Flexible working with a family-friendly focus are at the core of our company values
- We have beautiful office locations across the UK, Benelux, and Ireland, with highly talented and supportive colleagues
- VMware & Veeam top partner status
- Feel like having some zen time? You’ll love our company subscription to Headspace
Please note: We do not offer VISA sponsorship.
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: DevOps Administrator, Systems Developer, 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.
