Cloud Platform Engineer
About The Position
A Cloud Platform Engineer will be embedded within teams responsible for the delivery and operation of resources supporting Sports Trading and Core Systems Cloud services. The role involves expanding public Cloud capability and establishing a seamless operating model to leverage the speed and flexibility of a self-serve model. By placing the right skills closer to product teams, this ensures a close working relationship with the core platform team. You will be embedded within Product Delivery Domains to help build, operate, and support critical products within the Cloud. You will have a passion for working on innovative initiatives and will make an immediate impact to the Business by bringing your own experience to a challenging but vibrant environment. You will be given the support and training to allow you to grow and progress within this position. This role would suit either those looking to leverage a development background to Cloud technologies or a cloud engineer who wants to work closely with development teams.
Requirements
- Prior public Cloud experience, preferably with Google Cloud.
- Existing core platform knowledge in Projects and Folders, IAM and Billing.
- Proficiency operating with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using industry standard tooling, preferably Terraform and methodologies.
- Knowledge and experience using GitOpsa.
- Proficiency of source code management, namely git.
- Confident in utilising custom automation and scripting using tools such as G-Cloud, CLI, Bash, Python and Golang.
- Experience of modern platform stacks such as Kubernetes or GKE, as well as affiliated technologies and workflows including service mesh ingress, CI and CD, monitoring stacks and security instruments.
- Awareness of networking in Public Cloud environments.
- Awareness of key security considerations when operating in the Public Cloud.
Responsibilities
- Working within a software function to deploy, operate and support related Cloud resources.
- Taking accountability for the end-to-end delivery of Cloud resources, as part of software product initiatives.
- Working with and influencing others to advocate and guide technical aspects of Cloud adoption.
- Working with the central Cloud Platform Team to embed key principles and standards in the operational running of responsible technologies.
- Supporting and consulting with stakeholders.
- Driving engineering excellence across the team by fostering modern engineering practices and processes.
- Working with the central Cloud Platform Team to help steer the next iteration of self-serve automation technologies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
