Cloud Engineer

 

Main characteristics

Location

London, London

Company

ECS

Employment type

Permanent

Category

IT

Job summary

ECS is the UK's largest and fastest growing independent Digital Transformation Consulting firm. We enable digital transformation to empower both disruptors and the disrupted - working from the inside out. Our clients are some of the UK's most recognisable brands.
We're a team that transforms our customers' technology landscapes, bringing them real competitive edge! Building a business around our people is the key to our success and we will give you the opportunity to develop thought leadership that delivers.
There's no doubt this role is a challenge, so you'll need to be up for working in an ever-changing environment and will be excited by venturing to sometimes uncharted areas. Our projects go to the very root of the organisations we work with so you'll often be working with lots of different teams to bring cohesion and develop standard working practices.
In return you'll benefit by getting exposure to a wide range of tools, and Cloud transformation technologies. As an AWS Partner ECS believe that continual development is key to our success.
You'll get the opportunity to learn new technology that you can then put into practice, and become certified on various Cloud (and related) technologies that will help you to develop your own toolkit.
About the role:
Contribute to and provide leadership qualities in the development and deployment of Cloud technologies with focus in at least one area of subject matter expertise.
Work individually and as part of a team to carry out end-to-end implementation of Cloud based technologies (public, private and hybrid).
Undertake Cloud based solutions activities driving architecture, process and management best practice.
Identify risks within major designs and direct follow up remediation activities
Advise and assist clients in developing Cloud technology roadmaps.
Regularly undertake complex and/or critical consultative engagements, to a senior management level.
Confidently scope complex and critical projects as well as (high level and detailed) deliverables.
About you (ideally):
Work in an agile, collaborative manor and be adaptable to changing scenarios
Ability to challenge the ideas and solutions of others respectfully and accept criticism
Strong experience deploying Infrastructure-as-Code eg CloudFormation and/or Troposphere in an enterprise environment
Architectural design and deployment skills for enterprise Cloud technologies (public, private and hybrid) into complex environments
Excellent knowledge of high availability and backup/recovery solutions.
Excellent technical design, performance improvement and service alignment skills.
Experience around business critical and business continuity solutions.
Technical Insight:
Strong Understanding of Scripting tools eg Python, Ansible
Project experience with Key AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, API Gateway, Amazon Connect, CloudWatch, IAM, AWS Config
Proven experience designing, building and testing Cloud based technologies in a large enterprise/service provider environment
Experience of Agile project management methodologies
Coaching and mentoring staff within own discipline.
Technical workshop design & facilitation
ECS has over 850 employees and Associates, and is headquartered in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, London and Pune.
We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
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