NWS are currently recruiting a Cloud Platform Engineer!
This role will provides the technical ability for designing, developing, and maintaining cloud computing infrastructure. The key responsibilities include deploying, scaling, and securing cloud-based applications and services.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and security.
- Design, implement and maintain the underlying cloud infrastructure, such as virtual machines, storage, and networking components.
- Cloud Architecture, Design and structure cloud-based systems, components, and services.
- Understand how to create effective data models to support reporting needs (e.g., using Power BI).
- Data Analytics and Visualisation
- Familiarize yourself with cloud-based data warehouses.
- visualization tools Power BI.
- Work on integrating cloud-based systems with existing on-premises infrastructure and ensuring seamless data transfer between the two environments.
- Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
- Identify, analyse, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements.
- Interact with clients, provide cloud support, and make recommendations based on client needs.
- Specialise in implementing security measures and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations in the cloud environment.
Experience Required
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Demonstratable experience in Cloud Operations (CloudOps) and DevOps.
- Knowledge and experience of building pipelines, git, and operating systems
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or equivalent public cloud IaC (Infrastructure as Code) technology.
- Network Knowledge, required to configure and troubleshoot network components, familarity with VPC, Subnets, firewalls, IP addressing, DNS.
- DevOps Practices, Cloud Engineers collaborate closely with DevOps teams. Skills in CI/CD pipelines, version control, and containerisation.
- Security Awareness, Cloud security is critical. Cloud Engineers should understand encryption, and best practices for securing cloud resource.
- Comfortable working in an agile delivery framework
- Able to work under your own initiative on large scale technical challenges.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage technical and business stakeholders at all levels, as well as strong technical documentation skills.
- Ability to hold a UK SC Clearance
What is in it for you
- On appointment to NWS you will receive 25.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and you can accrue up to 13 extra days leave
- Rewarding performance (annual bonus scheme)
- We offer a generous pension scheme through CNNP
- Learning and development support
- Payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial advice assistance
- Flexible working
- Extended family-friendly policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- We welcome flexible and agile working practices
- Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment
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