Cloud Engineer

Cloud EngineerPermanent | Up to £50,000 + Bonus + Excellent benefits + Overtime and Oncall availableHybrid working - 1-2 days per week in Billericay
High growth business is looking to expand the infrastructure team to help during period of cloud transformation. You will be required to be onsite 1-2 days per week, which can be agreed with the team, so quite a bit of flexibility.
You will be joining a small and friendly team who are busy with a number of projects, a small back log and a significant cloud transformation agenda for the next 12-18 months (Azure). When through the small backlog, you can expect a 70/30 Project/BAU split, across a wide range of technologies.
This role is responsible for the technical implementation and maintenance of services and infrastructure, encompassing both on-premise and Azure cloud environments where you will be involved in provisioning, deploying, and sustaining systems to align with business needs.
Specifically:

• Design, build and management of the on-premise servers (Windows), virtualisation (Hyper-V) and our cloud infrastructure (Azure / IaC / Terraform).
• Ensuring scalability, reliability and security of infrastructure.
• Monitoring and maintaining the performance and availability of infrastructure including regular maintenance such as patching and updates.
• Implementing and maintaining security measures to protect infrastructure environment.
• Leading infrastructure projects from initiation to completion. On the horizon includes migration of end of life servers to the cloud, selecting and implementing a new DR solution and enhancing security posture.
• Reporting on infrastructure performance, incident and improvements

About you

• Wide Infrastructure Engineering experience with demonstrable experience in physical Servers 2012-2019 (Windows), Virtualisation (Hyper-V) and Cloud (Azure).
• IaC experience is essential given the planned migration to Azure over the coming 6-12 months (Terraform ideally, ARM, Bicep, others)
• Demonstrable experience with implementation of and backup maintenance (Veeam)
• Experience with on prem data centre maintenance and management - long term will be majority in the cloud, but with some on-prem).
• Demonstrable Azure Management (VMs, NSG rules, Storage accounts etc) to be able to effectively contribute to the gradual migration of our environments to the cloud.
• The ability to create and maintain technical documentation with a good attention to detail.
• Hardware and software patching/firmware upgrades
• Some Networking experience desirable in configuring and maintaining network devices such as Firewalls (Palo alto/Cicso ASA), Switches, WiFi and Routers
• Able to work end to end on projects, with initiative and willingness to learn, but also able to work as part of a small team.

Please submit your CV today for immediate CV review.
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Location: Billericay, GB

Posted Date: 11/21/2024