Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer
Location: London
Salary: Competitive depending on experience
Job type: Full time, Permanent
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 Hybrid role based in London or close to one of our offices in Edinburgh, Reading, Bournemouth and/or Birmingham.
The Role:
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 alerts. As a Cloud specialist, one of your primary responsibilities is to respond to customer requests, incident tickets, and change requests and record those appropriately in our service desk system and deal with them to ensure the customers enjoy an awesome service!
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.
You will also support our clients with navigating the vast array of services available within Azure, as well as expert setup and configuration.
Essential Skills / Experience:
- 3+ years public cloud environment design, deployment, and support experience
- 3+ years VMware experience, within a large-scale environment, with a high standard of vSphere knowledge (ideally including 6.7)
- 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,
- Backup & Disaster Recovery (ideally Veeam and/or Zerto)
- Monitoring – e.g. Nagios / Zabbix / Solarwinds / PRTG
- SAN storage arrays (ideally at least one of Pure, Dell EMC or Dell EqualLogic)
- Confident in obtaining requirements and creating designs to meet technical challenges for our customers
- Microsoft 365, Endpoint Management, and Azure AD experience
- Azure or AWS Certifications Associate level
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
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
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.
