Principle Cloud Solution Engineer

Are you an experienced Cloud Engineer who wants to join a leading cyber team within an evolving and dynamic organisation?

Due to the success of our client's strategic programmes, they are looking to grow their teams with creative and ambitious Cloud Solutions Engineers. With a primary focus on designing and building cloud-based solutions across public, private and hybrid cloud architectures, your experience will cover a variety of technologies, working closely with development teams to understand complex multi-domain problem sets and apply your skills to solve them.

As a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect you will be expected to take a lead role in all aspects of the System Development Lifecycle. Working in agile feature delivery teams with Cloud Solutions Engineers, Software Developers, Test Engineers and other specialist, to design, build, deliver and support critical customer systems using the latest techniques and technologies. Developing cross discipline skillsets that will enable you to work more efficiently and succeed in taking on complex challenges.

Candidates will need hold or be able to obtain a high level of UK Security clearance.

Key Technical Skill:
*Extensive experience working within IT Systems Design, Deployment and Administration, with recent roles in Technical or Team Leadership positions;
*Certified to Professional level as either an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Certified Solutions Architect or GCP Certified Cloud Architect;
*Demonstrable experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud based solutions across either Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure;
*Extensive experience of administration of Linux Operating Systems within large corporate environments, including CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 18.04 onwards;
*Extensive experience of administration of Windows Server Operating Systems within large corporate environments, from Windows Server 2016 onwards;
*Extensive experience of designing, deploying and troubleshooting IPv4 Networking, including Subnetting, OSPF Routing, VLANs and VPNs;
*Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Terraform;
*Experience of administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare or Docker;

Desirable Technical Skills:
*Experience of implementing Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as part of DevOps deliveries;
*Experience of secure network architecture design;
*Experience of secure virtualisation and containerisation system design;
*Experience of DevOps working practices, such as Git Branching and release schedules;
*Experience of using agile collaboration tooling, such as Jira and Confluence;
*Experience of using Agile Delivery methodologies such as Scrum or SAFE;
*Knowledge of ITIL based Service Management delivery.


Title: Principal Cloud Solutions Engineer
Pay Rate and Benefits: Competitive
Location: Cheltenham
Key Skills: AWS, Cloud, Cloud Based Architecture, VLAN, VPN, Azure, Cloud based Solutions, IT Systems Design, Cloud Based Platform

If you are a good match, then please apply with a CV to learn more about this truly fantastic opportunity to work for a market leader who has an enviable reputation.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet these criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum DV level

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. This is a permanent role

Electus Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.