Cloud Engineer SC Clearance

Position: Cloud Engineer - 6 Months contract - SC Clearance needed
SC Cleared Cloud Engineer
6 Months Contract
Remote
Outside ir35

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will:

● Be part of a multidisciplinary team developing and supporting
our central cloud, developer and identity and access platforms

● Write infrastructure as code using terraform to ensure our
infrastructure is consistent, reusable and reliable

● Deploy and configure observability tools to enable our teams to
identify and respond to operational issues quickly and effectively

● Build CI/CD pipelines to enable the team to get code into
production quickly and reliably

● Provide day-to-day support for our platforms and tools to ensure
they remain available, secure and robust

● Solve complex and interesting problems

● Share your knowledge and expertise with your peers and the
wider team to drive consistency and develop a culture of
openness and learning

We’re interested in people who have:

● A deep understanding of Linux operating system internals and
are comfortable working with Linux virtual machines or
containers to carry out end to end debugging

● Strong experience of working with infrastructure technologies
such as databases, web servers, DNS, CDNs, reverse proxies,
message queues and load balancers

● Experience of building and maintaining services in the cloud
(preferably AWS)

● Extensive experience of creating infrastructure as code using
Terraform or Cloud Formation (preferably Terraform)

● Experience of using container orchestration systems such as
Kubernetes, ECS or serverless application design with AWS
Lambda

● Experience supporting large production services

● Proficiency in at least one programming language (we use Ruby
and Python)

● Strong Git skills

● Experience of creating pipelines in a CI/CD tool like Github
Actions or AWS Code pipeline

● A strong understanding of security principles and how to keep
large operational services secure