Job Description

Cloud Engineer
Location: London
Employment Type: Contractor
Salary: 6-month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £580 per day
PCD290121

Role Overview
London based - hybrid working - 3 days office based

Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for technical delivery of managed services across customer account base. Working as part of a team providing a Shared Managed Service.
• The following is a list of expected responsibilities:
• To manage and support a customer's cloud platform and Data platform.
• To be technical hands-on.
• Provide Incident and problem management on the cloud platform IaaS and PaaS Platform.
• Monitoring and observability of system and platform performance.
• Collaboration with development and build teams on application and platform deployments and changes.
• Involvement in the resolution of Incidents and problems in an efficient and timely manner.
• Actively monitor an cloud platform platform and components for technical issues.
• Implement and improve on existing monitoring and observability solution.
• To be involved in the resolution of technical incidents tickets.
• Assist in the root cause analysis of incidents.
• Assist with improving efficiency and processes within the team.
• Examining traces and logs.
• Escalate incidents and problems to the appropriate teams.
• Working with third party suppliers and cloud platform to jointly resolve incidents.
Experience and Skills Requirements:
Essential
• Technical troubleshooting and problem solving.
• cloud platform management of large-scale IaaS PaaS solutions.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting servers, networks, and applications.
• Cloud networking and security fundamentals.
• Collaboration and communication skills.
• Highly adaptable to changes in a technical environment.

Desirable Skills
• Experience using monitoring and observer ability toolsets inc. security monitoring platform, Datadog.
• Experience using source-control platform Actions.
• Experience using cloud platform RDS/SQL based solutions.
• Experience using containerization in cloud platform.
• Working data warehouse knowledge cloud data warehouse and cloud data warehouse preferred.
• Working with IaC - infrastructure automation tooling and Cloud Formation.
• Working understanding of scripting languages including Python and Shell.
• Experience working with streaming technologies inc. event-streaming platform, Apache stream-processing framework.
• Experience working with a ETL environments.
• Experience working with a event-streaming platform cloud platform.