Cloud Engineer

at  Gas Management Services Limited GMSL

OPPORTUNITY

We have a great opportunity for an experienced cloud engineer to join our excellent software development team based in Cambridge.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

We are looking for someone who:

• Has 3+ 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 enthusiastic about learning and can adapt to new technologies and tools.
• Enjoys troubleshooting and thinking logically to diagnose issues and identify root causes.
• Is comfortable providing on-call support.

CLOUD ENGINEER ROLE

Cloud Engineers at GMSL are responsible for creating secure and highly available AWS infrastructure for our cloud-based products. 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.
Cloud engineers are involved in 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Once your knowledge of our current architecture and AWS services has been established, your key responsibilities will be:

• Using infrastructure as code and automation to provide cloud services in multiple environments, from testing through to production.
• Collaborating alongside product owners, developers and testers to help develop and implement new services and features.
• Contributing towards availability, reliability, and security of our systems and services.
• 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.
• Pro-actively maintaining & improving existing architectural patterns whilst introducing new patterns to benefit from changes to technology/services.
• Supporting & improving the CI/CD infrastructure.