Senior Cloud Engineer

Description Senior Cloud Engineer Location: Enterprise Park, Jacksonville (Hybrid, 3 days in office) Competitive salary + excellent benefits SmartStream TechnSmartStream Technologies, a Global Fintech leader is looking to invest in its Senior Cloud Engineer and Site Reliability teams, which will further enable a rapidly growing Cloud hosted client base. To continue to service and support the world's top investment banks and asset managers, we are constantly innovating to cement our industry leading position for the next decade. You will be working alongside a global team of engineering and operations professionals, who are based in the UK, US, and India. The position requires little to no travel, offers excellent growth potential, and is a great opportunity to further develop Cloud engineering knowledge. Applicants should have an excellent technical background, a good work ethic, and strong communication skills. The role will involve participation in new initiatives across the product suite, enhancing our Cloud strategy. As the company is successfully growing its Managed Services and Solution Delivery business with changes to both on premise and cloud architectures, you will be someone who embraces this challenge and the ability to support and develop each. Job Responsibilities The purpose of the role will be to create, manage, and improve our OnDemand solutions in the cloud. Key duties and accountabilities of the role will include: • Building and supporting cloud infrastructure in production environments • Evolving our best practices for deploying our solutions into AWS • Provide AWS expertise and consultancy to the rest of the business • Automating software integration and deployment in cloud platforms • Supporting our operations teams, improving the automation and efficiency of regular tasks • Assisting with the containerisation of our existing product suite and its deployment • Managing and resolving client issues relating to hosted infrastructure Key Skills • In-depth knowledge of cloud technologies with strong commercial experience of managing enterprise infrastructure environments • Technical experience in infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security, and storage • Configuration of firewalls, load balancers and other network equipment • Proven experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies. • Experience with deploying and managing infrastructure for databases such as Oracle • Provide demonstrable experience of your ability to work independently, working on your own initiative as a self-starter. Desirable Skills • Understanding of how to build resilient multi-site architectures • Experience and knowledge of cloud security and relevant ISO and PCI compliance requirements • Knowledge of Azure and other cloud providers • Experience of Windows and Linux operating systems • Experience of infrastructure as code, using Terraform and ansible to build, change and version infrastructure. • Experience of container technologies, for example Docker, Kubernetes, Azure AKS and AWS EKS • Working knowledge of AGILE development, using methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban or Extreme Programming • Configuration of firewalls, load balancers and other network equipment Qualifications The following certifications would be an advantage: • AWS Certified Solution Architect • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate • MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure • MCSA Cloud Platform Solutions Associate • MCSA Linux on Azure Solutions Associate • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation Experience AWS Cloud infrastructure, security and automation as part of responsibilities Employment Type Permanent Benefits • Competitive salary • Company 401k scheme matching up to 5% of salary • Private medical insurance • Dental and vision coverage • Life assurance • Short-term and long-term disability coverage Equality Statement SmartStream is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and following practices which are free from unfair and unlawful discrimination.