Senior Cloud Engineer

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Cloud Engineer with experience provisioning, maintaining and supporting cloud infrastructure, to join our excellent software development team based in central Cambridge.
 
The role
 
Cloud Engineers at GMSL are responsible for creating secure and highly available AWS infrastructure for our cloud-based products.
 
Cloud Engineers are key to the design, provisioning, maintenance and support of the cloud infrastructure, which requires a deep understanding of cloud services. Excellent training and support is provided through relevant training courses and working alongside our experienced Senior Cloud Engineers.
 
They use a range of technologies to define infrastructure as code and automate workflows to ensure we are able to deploy quickly and effectively into multiple environments.
 
Responsibilities
 
Once your knowledge of our current architecture and AWS services has been established, your key responsibilities will be:
 
• Pro-actively maintaining & improving existing architectural patterns whilst introducing new patterns to benefit from changes to technology/services.
• Ensuring the availability, reliability, and security of our cloud systems and services.
• Collaborating alongside product owners, developers and testers to help develop and implement new services and features.
• Using infrastructure as code and automation to provide cloud services in multiple environments, from testing through to production.
• Ensuring we have effective logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Facilitating the sharing of knowledge within the team through discussions and clear documentation.
• Coaching other members of the team.
• Supporting & improving the CI/CD infrastructure.
 
Your experience
 
We are looking for someone who:
 
• Has 5+ years’ experience as a Cloud Engineer or in a similar role.
• Enjoys working within a small team but is also able to work independently when required.
• Is able to communicate effectively, with both technical and non-technical people.
• Is curious about how technology works and can adapt to new challenges.
• Enjoys troubleshooting and thinking logically to diagnose issues and identify root causes.
• Is comfortable providing on-call support.
 
Technologies
 
Experience with AWS would be ideal, or equivalent Enterprise Clouds as well as experience in the areas listed below.
 
• Networking and DNS (VPC, subnets, security groups)
• Cloud services/APIs (S3, SQS, Cognito etc. etc.)
• Serverless compute and containerization (Lambda, ECR, docker, docker-compose)
• Database management and administration (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)
• Logging, monitoring and alarms (Cloudwatch, AWS Health Dashboard)
• User identity and access management (IAM, STS)
• Scripting and automation (Bash, JavaScript, Python)
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Github Actions)
 
We offer hybrid and homeworking options, depending on the requirements of the role and the needs of your team.
 
All our teams spend at least one day a week in our offices in Cambridge, this role requires 2-3 days a week in office, so you need to be based within easy travel to Cambridge.
 
We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements.
 
Our benefits include:

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme (6% employer contribution)
• 25 days’ holiday
• Private health care
• Flexible working hours and remote working
• Casual dress and a relaxed environment
• Employee assistance program
• Loyal service award
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Fresh fruit and great coffee
• Free access to Cambridge University Botanic Gardens
• Monthly team pub lunches
 
GMSL have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK, proof of right to work in the UK will be requested prior to employment.

About GMSL
 
GMSL is the market-leading provider of 24/7 energy portfolio management services and software in Europe and plays a vital role in the energy business. We have unparalleled expertise in the industry, built up over 25 years of operating in energy markets throughout Europe.

Our software is used by some of the largest energy companies in the world and is developed using our unique operations experience, giving us clear insight into our customers’ needs. For more background on GMSL see GmslGMSL - Your Partner for Energy Nominations
 
Recruitment Agencies
 
We are not currently accepting recruitment agency applications. We’ll be in touch if we need you to help us. Thanks for your understanding.
 
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid
Salary: Salary will be reflective of your level of experience.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
 
You may also have experience in the following: Cloud Engineer, AWS Cloud Engineer, Senior Cloud Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, AWS Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Cloud Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud), Cloud Operations Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Cloud Automation Engineer

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