Job Description
Essential Skills
Be able to Interact with External Customers to understand and optimise for their legacy and future environment, bringing platform optimisations to minimise the amount of code that we need develop, and infrastructure that we need to deploy. Integrating with other systems and sub systems, where required.
Able to understand Product Roadmaps and conceive the platforms that will be required to support them.
Mentor our teams in technology, architecture and the delivery of new solutions.
Build productive relationships with the developer, architecture, and in-service operations teams.
Work on new projects and established live systems.
Distributed System Architecture and Engineering
Develop explainable conceptual and detailed design documentation, to a professional standard
Bring a toolbox of actionable Design Patterns for Systems
Enable Data Intensive Applications and their Streams/Message Flows
Data Communications and Network Services including the common Enterprise and Service Provider protocols that enable packets to move on the Public Cloud
Instrumentation and Control Engineering
Public Cloud API and major Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an Associate/Professional level
Cloud Native Architecture including Microservices
Data Storage (Block, Object, SQL, NOSQL)
Authentication, Authorisation, Identity Platforms
Information Security, Privacy and Regulatory Compliance
Performance Tuning, Hardening and Troubleshooting
Problem Solving Skills to Methodically Find Faults and perform Root Cause Analysis
Able to evaluate multiple courses of action, achieving goals by non-standard means if necessary
System Regression
Protocol Analysis
Load Testing
Availability and Resilience Optimisation
Lockdowns and Basic Penetration Testing
Technologies
Operating Systems and Virtualisation (Windows and Linux)
Infrastructure as Code and Operational Automation (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
Message Queueing and Streaming Fabrics (e.g. AMQP, Kafka, Kinesis)
Docker and Kubernetes
Scripting (Shell and PowerShell)
Basic Coding with a bias for Infrastructure (Python, Go, C#)
IAM Policy and Authentication/Authorization schemes
Web Services and REST API
Databases and Storage Systems
Development Build, Test, and Deployment Pipelines
Observability and Monitoring (Open Telemetry, TIG and ELK stacks)
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Cloud Platform Engineer (DV Security Clearance) position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in London offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
