Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Description

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Role overview:

Design, automate, secure and support the cloud infrastructure and platform services used by ESCS. The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer works across delivery and operations to provide reliable environments, repeatable deployment, monitoring and lifecycle management.

The role you will play:

• Build and operate secure, reusable cloud foundations and environments.
• Automate infrastructure delivery and support efficient developer workflows.
• Embed reliability, observability, identity and security controls into the platform.

Primary responsibilities:

• Design, provision and maintain Azure and/or AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Implement network, compute, storage, identity, secrets and platform services.
• Support landing-zone controls, subscription/account structures and environment separation.
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines and platform automation.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, recovery and capacity controls.
• Support containers and orchestration platforms where required.
• Apply patching, vulnerability remediation, configuration and change controls.
• Produce architecture-aligned technical documentation, runbooks and support evidence.

Required skills and capabilities:

• Azure and/or AWS infrastructure engineering
• Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code
• Cloud networking, DNS, load balancing and firewalls
• Identity and access management
• Power Shell, Python, Bash or equivalent automation
• CI/CD and Dev Sec Ops  practices
• Monitoring, observability and operational diagnostics
• Containers and Kubernetes awareness or experience
• Cloud security controls and policy enforcement
• Backup, resilience, recovery and service management

Required experience:

• Delivery and support of production cloud infrastructure.
• Experience automating infrastructure and configuration.
• Experience diagnosing complex platform, network or identity issues.
• Experience producing supportable technical documentation and working within controlled change processes.

Desired experience:

• Azure Landing Zones, AWS Control Tower or equivalent governance patterns.
• Multi-cloud or enterprise migration programmes.
• Platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
• Zero Trust principles and security-conscious environments.

Clearance requirements:

• SC required to start
• SC required for the role

Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

Flexible Working Scheme

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer,healthy, andmore efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

Purpose:

you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration:

having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People:
Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth
whilst developing
. We believe that…