Senior Cloud Engineer - Manchester

Responsible for leading and coordinating deliveries and designs for medium to large features or engineering problems in the Cloud and Developer Experience space. Works confidently and effectively, and persists when faced with uncertainty or ambiguity. Pulls in support from around the company where needed, including from internal customers and stakeholders 

• Own large technical components. 
• Write high-quality code (appropriate style, patterns, organisation, comments, testability) with feedback and support. 
• Follow well-known principles when appropriate e.g. KISS, DRY, SOLID. 
• Test code thoroughly and proactively, and use good practices with feedback and support. 
• Create small and manageable pull requests. 
• Build loosely coupled components. 
• Able to design and implement systems that comprise of multiple technical components for a given set of features 
•  Actively participate in requirements gathering and solution design. Communicate engineering choices/concerns. 
• Consider non-functional requirements, and promote good resilience, performance, security, observability, and auditability practices to help other engineers deepen their knowledge. 
• Document and share designs. Ensure the designs are peer-reviewed and/or reviewed as part of the appropriate forums, including through Technology Design Authority (TDA) when appropriate. 
•  Understand continuous integration and the value of integrating small chunks of code into the main branch frequently 
•  Proactively communicate progress to your team. Use your experience to unblock yourself on time. Rely on documentation, forums, and technical knowledge to resolve blockers. 
• Clearly and confidently articulate the risk of technical problems to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. legal, compliance). 
•   Consider the impact that your work has on the product, business or customer. 
• Demonstrate detailed -SME- knowledge in several domains. 
• Actively engage in the roadmap development with your team. 
• Use your understanding of system functionality to identify large limitations and impactful enhancements. 
•  Lead discussions on new or existing tools, technologies, automation, and engineering practices while being pragmatic in what can be changed or introduced vs what needs to be delivered. 
• Demonstrate tools/frameworks, and new practices to the wider software engineering chapter (community of practice). 
• Take part in initiatives to improve the practices of the engineering discipline. 

• Strong experience with AWS, Terraform and GtiHub Actions (or similar tooling). 
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures with a focus on efficiency, automation, resilience and auditability. 
• Ability to write tests and testable code. 
• Ability to write concise and precise documentation.  
• Strong experience with distributed version control systems (e.g. Git). 
• Experience in building and maintaining infrastructure as code and shared Platform tooling.  
• Experience working with and cultivating an Agile approach. 
• Experience of practical FinOps and cloud cost control. 
• Experience of Azure cloud. 
• Advanced numerate degree 

Technology Stack 

Git and GitHub
Postman Slack/Email 
JIRA/Confluence 
VPN 
PyCharm / VS Code 

• Competitive salary
• Incentive Bonus 
• Company Car Scheme 
• 25 days holiday PLUS your BIRTHDAY off
• Pension contribution with Royal London
• Life Assurance
• Private medical, dental and optical health insurance with Axa
• Hybrid working – Wrexham 
• Free breakfast available

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