Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary :
This is an exciting opportunity to join our global consultancy client as an Associate Infrastructure/Cloud Engineer to become part of their talented cloud operations and delivery team based out of the UK. In addition to intermediate infrastructure and basic cloud experience we are looking for candidates looking to develop further expertise in cloud and automation.
Duties/Responsibilities
* The position involves an 80/20 split between production support and project delivery:
* 80% 2nd and 3rd level production support of Linux and Windows based cloud hosted enterprise application platforms across the OCI, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud platforms.
The individual will work closely with the rest of the operations team in managing medium to large scale cloud environments.
* 20% project delivery of new client projects. The project delivery part of the role involves working with the delivery team engineers, DBAs and architects in taking projects from presales stage through delivery to handover into production.
* The role will involve a degree of autonomy, and it is expected the individual will take ownership of problems and solutions whilst working collaboratively with the rest of the engineering team.
* Technically the individual will provide support and engineering across cloud platforms, networking as well as Linux and Windows ecosystems, with an emphasis on developing and utilising scripting and automation skills.
* The individual filling this position is expected to provide production support ownership, tracking and resolving cloud and platform infrastructure related tasks.
* The individual will also be responsible for initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes to the senior team.
Skills Requirements
* 3 to 5 years' experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, ideally with cloud exposure.
* Robust experience with Linux distributions (Redhat, Oracle Linux, Debian, Ubuntu etc.).
* Intermediate working experience with Windows O/S platform and Active Directory.
* Networking skills covering DNS, VPNs, WANs, LANs, switching, load balancers and firewalls in on premise and cloud environments.
* Systems monitoring with vendor provided and open-source monitoring platforms.
* Exposure to system automation through tools like:
* Linux shell, Bash, Perl, Python.
* Windows scripting using PowerShell, VBS, VBA.
* Ansible.
* Terraform.
* CloudFormation
* Exposure to virtualization platforms, such as: VMware, XEN, OVM/KVM.
* Basic understanding of version control, preferably Git & BitBucket, would be advantageous
More Information
- Address Glasgow, Glasgow City
