Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Would you like to be a part of a digital transformation journey and be part of a team that is constantly evolving? Do you want to be involved in work that has a meaningful purpose? If yes, then this could be the role for you!

You'll be instrumental in shaping the future of our technical landscape, focusing on vital infrastructure evolution, optimising environments, and refining CI/CD processes. Part of a dedicated platform sub-team, you'll be building the foundations on which our core systems operate, offering crucial technical guidance to colleagues and internal customers, and actively developing individuals to foster their growth.

The post sits within Digital and Data Services (DDS) Technical Operations, a growing team who are responsible for the ongoing development, delivery and support of over 20 digital services to internal users and our customers and suppliers, attaining a system uptime across these services of over 99.9%. The post reports to the Lead Cloud Engineer and will have line management responsibility for at least one Cloud Engineer.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead and guide team members, manage performance to ensure a high-performing team, and support staff development through regular feedback
• Guide the platform team's workstreams, delivering impactful infrastructure projects, including migrating and rebuilding existing infrastructure from legacy architecture to a Platform Engineering approach.
• Standardise and manage CI/CD processes, promoting automation at every stage
• Continuously review and recommend enhancements for the existing AWS estate, identifying areas for optimisation and increased efficiency
• Develop self-service tooling through Internal Developer Portals (IDP), working with Development, QA, and TechOps to deliver products (platforms) that meet their requirements.
• Harmonise lower environments with Production and embed environment management processes
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
• Create comprehensive documentation for platform tooling, CI/CD, and IaC.

Essential Criteria (to be assessed at application stage):

• Cloud & Production Expertise: Extensive experience with production-grade infrastructure, particularly AWS (VPC, EC2, Load Balancers, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, CloudFront).
• Infrastructure as Code: Deep expertise with Terraform, Ansible would be a plus
• CI/CD Migration Experience: Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Travis CI), especially within migration projects (e.g., from TravisCI, AWS CodePipeline to Jenkins).
• Containerisation: Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes, in particular AWS ECS and EKS.
• Proficient in Bash, Python, or Go.

Success Profiles (to be assessed at interview):

Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving

Experience:

Technical:

• AWS and Terraform

What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:

• Competitive salary
• Generous pension scheme
• A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
• Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
• Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
• Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

Selection Process

Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift and interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)

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