Senior Cloud Engineer (GCP)

Mesh-AI Limited; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to guide clients on cloud technologies and implement Infrastructure as Code. You will contribute to building platforms using AWS and ensure best practices are followed. This role offers a supportive culture, ample opportunities for growth, and flexibility with a hybrid working model. Benefits include generous holiday allowance, parental leave, and pension contributions. Candidates should be eligible to live and work in the UK.

Benefits

35 days of holiday

Enhanced parental leave

Pension matched up to 5%

Qualifications

• Experience advising clients on Cloud technologies.
• Background in building cloud platforms with AWS.
• Proven record of promoting coding best practices and clean code.

Responsibilities

• Guide clients on cloud technology solutions.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code strategies.
• Develop and maintain build pipelines for deployments.
• Provide configuration management and documentation.

Skills

Consulting on Cloud technologies

Infrastructure as Code

Security by design

Knowledge sharing

AWS experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

You will be helping define and shape the Cloud Engineering capability of CreateFuture. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you’re someone who is confident in consulting and helping clients find the best possible solution - with that “right tool for the job” mindset.

We work with cloud native platforms build out through to large-scale cloud migrations. We work across all 3 cloud service providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. Working by delivering these clients platforms via agile teams or working solo depending on the scale of the client.

We strive to create the best product possible with everyone's effort, and you'll be an integral part of that mission. Your role in the team is highly valued, and you'll be a key player in ensuring the success of our projects.

Our Engineering team at CreateFuture drive forward technology strategies, they also contribute to planning sessions and help to map out delivery roadmaps.

Our tech:

• Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation
• Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• Jenkins, GITHUB Actions or Gitlab Pipeline

What you'll be doing:

• Providing advice and guidance to your team and clients on Cloud technologies
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code
• Providing configuration management
• Build pipelines including blue/green deployments and working with different pipeline tools and automating where required
• Implementing security by design when coding via IAC and building a pipeline
• Advising different ways to integrate into other systems whether on-premises or to other cloud platforms
• Creating documentation that allows the clients to understand what has been implemented
• Assisting the Cloud team in building standard solutions we can offer our clients

We'd love to talk to you if:

• You have previously helped external clients / internal teams reach their technical goals
• You are experienced when it comes to developing platforms using AWS
• You actively promote engineering best practices, clean code and unit testing
• Facilitate and encourage knowledge sharing within your team and across the wider Engineering department

What we'll offer you:

At CreateFuture, we challenge ourselves to go beyond the obvious and we care deeply about our craft and customers. With us, you’ll have ambitious projects to sink your teeth into and plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll be part of our safe, supportive and friendly culture - that looks after you - and join our team of genuinely great people.

Our benefits include:

• Total 35 days holiday (we have flexible bank holidays)
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave
• Pension - matched up to 5%

As this is a hybrid role, we’re looking for people within a commuting distance of our hub locations (Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or London) and who are flexible to travel to client sites and CreateFuture regional offices. We are very flexible and trust you to manage your own schedule to balance face-to-face time with clients, colleagues and working from home.

We create and reinforce a culture that rewards employees’ impact, not just activity. We trust our employees to work autonomously and promote ownership across all levels.

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