Senior Cloud Engineer

GCP Senior Cloud Engineer

Hybrid - Leeds - office 1 day per week

Salary - Competitive

Our client is on a mission to create environments in which them and their customers can be successful, delivering value through secure, lean, automated operations whilst looking for opportunities for innovation. Continuously improving through open, honest feedback and collaboration.

The Role:

As a Senior Cloud Engineer in the GCP practice, you will help to deliver world-class architectures for our client's customers. Leveraging the GCP product landscape, you will piece together innovative solutions and act as a technical lead in project teams while interfacing with the customers to meet their requirements and goals. This role is a hybrid role, with requirements to be in our client's Leeds head office on a weekly basis. Occasional travel to client sites, including travel to London is involved in this role.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside Infrastructure and Data Engineers, along with their development team to implement cloud solutions for their clients, using Google Cloud and supporting technologies.
• Interface with customers to meet requirements and goals, adapting implementation methodologies as necessary.
• Execute on technical designs for architectures and solutions as agreed with the technical design authority.
• Act as a technical SME within project teams and the wider practice, providing technical support and guidance to junior team members.
• Ensure alignment to cloud design principles (e.g. Google Cloud Architecture Framework) or policies as dictated by the customer requirements.

Minimum qualifications:

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
• Demonstrable experience delivering solutions in the public or private Cloud, using appropriate design patterns.
• Experience modernising applications in, or moving to, the Cloud through the implementation of refactoring or re-platforming exercises.
• Excellent understanding of technology and security fundamentals as follows but not limited to IT operations, service architecture, database systems, networking, IT security, application development, cloud-native application development, hosted services and storage systems.
• Experience with PaaS and IaaS technologies including Cloud infrastructure, serverless/function-based computing, container-based computing and database technologies.
• Excellent organisational, analytical and influencing skills, with the ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Any other Google Cloud Professional certification.
• Experience in technical project/programme management, either in corporate IT, professional services, consulting or product development.
• Experience of implementing multi-cloud platforms or implementing solutions on other Cloud provider platforms.
• Experience working on large-scale Cloud migration programmes.
• Experience with Cloud security including identity and access management (IAM), OAuth, service accounts and certificates.
• Application or Platform automation development experience.
• Ability to quickly learn, understand and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.

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