Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer
Location: City of London
Sector: Financial Services

Essential: Deep and broad experience of automation, Cloud platform and services,
Mixed Platform
Containerisation technologies
AWS

The Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer will be leading the development and adoption of automated software delivery platforms and Infrastructure. The role requires a business minded, highly collaborative, team-focussed engineer with exceptional communication skills to work with developers in DevOps principles.

Essential Experience:
– Deep and broad experience of automation, Cloud platform and services and DevOps principles in general
– Platforms; Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu
– Proficiency in at least one of the following scripting languages; Python, PowerShell, Bash
– Developer tooling; Full stack CI/CD, GitLab, TFS, SVN ,GitHub, Jenkins, CloudBees, TeamCity, Nexus, Jira, AWS pipelines with Repo, Build, Deploy.
– Containerisation technologies -AWS, Fargate, ECS and EKS. / Openshift or Docker EE
– Serverless technologies such as Lambda and Functions
– Deep knowledge of CloudFormation with the ability to write templates from scratch for complex setups like auto scaling groups and launch configurations
– IAM roles and managing cloud security principles, ability to architect application level security. SAML federation specifically Okta
– Ansible playbooks, Ansible Tower, Octopus Deploy
– Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, CloudWatch
– Experience with messaging and streaming platforms