Cloud Engineer

Role Purpose

CIVICA Election Services is seeking a creative and self-motivated Cloud Engineer who can assist the Cloud Team in the design, implementation and support of cloud solutions. Ensuring requirements are understood and communicated, implementation quality is high and deadlines are met with considerable exposure to multiple technologies and platforms.

Providing technical specialism in Azure Public Cloud within the Democracy Divisions Cloud Team.

Help engineers and developers in the design, development, planning, implementation and support of a range of cloud focussed projects on both public and private cloud infrastructure.

Pushing innovation and developing leading edge solutions that deliver the business needs of the Division and our Customers.

Principal Accountabilities

• Working experience on Azure cloud-based applications

• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases and SQL, should be able to troubleshoot single handily

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and its implementation

• Supporting designing architectures and upholding good architecture principles.

• Assist the lead/architect in planning and design of specific components/tasks

• Assist/Produce High Level and Low Level Designs and provide technical assistance to the development team

• Develop solutions that consider security, future proofing, maintainability and cost effectiveness

• Provide support to the Projects and other Cloud Engineers

• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

Essential Competencies

• Technical knowledge of private, hybrid and public cloud designs, environments and infrastructure especially Microsoft Azure

• Demonstrable experience of working on small/large infrastructure transformation projects and programmes

• Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure solution design and implementation

• VMware and/or Hyper-V Infrastructure solution design and implementation

• Active Directory and Cloud Active Directory including hybrid integration

• Design of service management and monitoring infrastructure

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Self-starter approach, highly motivated, highly organised

• Ability to manage & plan deployments to end users

• Strong understanding of Networking, Security, Storage and Identity Management

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of High Availability, Geo-Resilience, Disaster Recovery or BCP

• Certifications in Azure would be advantageous

• Good analytical and problem solving skills

• Ability to work in a dynamic environment

• Strong focus on quality standards and code performance

Desirable Skills

• Working experience on AWS cloud based applications

• Amazon AWS infrastructure solution design and implementation

• Competency in Linux Administration would be advantageous