Senior Cloud Engineer

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Full time
Location: Glasgow
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Job offered by: The Scottish Government
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Category: IT & Technology
Job Description Are you a dynamic, highly motivated senior cloud engineer with the ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving cloud platform? Do you have a well-honed aptitude for problem-solving and service optimization? Do your strengths include leadership, collective ownership, collaboration, and motivation toward achieving and maintaining high-quality standards?

Social Security Scotland is looking to recruit a number of Senior Cloud Engineers to help develop our Amazon Web Services platform.

The Senior Cloud Engineer role will be within the Engineering and Cloud service branch focused on the maintenance and delivery of our AWS hosting platform. There will be regular interaction with colleagues in the CDO Architecture team, Cyber Security Team, Applications Development teams, and a number of suppliers involved in the provision of the Division’s software and infrastructure.

A Lead Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Senior Cloud Engineer) will lead one or more specialist teams to support, manage, and maintain the core infrastructure that underpins production services. You will use your experience and technical skills to mentor Cloud Engineers and Associate Cloud Engineers in order to build greater capability. At this role level, you will:

Manage operational support of IT solutions and services. Manage workload, performance, and development of a team of IT operations specialists by building capability to deliver services as required. Manage third-party provision of IT operations services. Manage the development of architectural solutions for IT operations solutions throughout the service life cycle. You will be (or expected to become) a Subject Matter Expert within a team, being the key point of contact for one or more of the technologies/functions below. In this role, you will use your experience to be responsible for the quality of the service and developing a roadmap of continuous improvement activities that align with business objectives:

DevOps Tooling (using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and Git) Cloud Platform (building and maintaining a cloud platform using a hosting provider such as AWS) Logging, Monitoring and Alerting (building and maintaining a monitoring/SIEM tool such as Elasticsearch) Software/Infrastructure Delivery (automating/optimizing processes to deploy components and systems accurately and efficiently to meet delivery demand) This role may also require some out-of-hours working due to production releases or scheduled maintenance, but any instances will be communicated and agreed upon with advance notice.

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