Cloud Engineering Specialist

The Cloud Engineering Specialist is pivotal in crafting, executing, and enhancing cloud-based solutions for IT frameworks and digital advancement initiatives. This role focuses on creating secure, scalable cloud environments using cutting-edge technologies to foster innovation, efficiency, and agility. Providing crucial advice to senior management, the Specialist ensures cloud infrastructure alignment with IT and business strategies.

• Strategic Planning: Develop operational plans in line with the IT strategy, evaluate current cloud/physical setups, and propose strategies for efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Cloud Architecture: Design and implement robust cloud architectures tailored to business needs, prioritizing security, scalability, and performance.
• Migration Management:  Lead and execute smooth migrations of on-premises workloads and applications to cloud environments, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum efficiency.
• Security and Compliance: Implement strong security controls and compliance measures to safeguard data and assets in the cloud, adhering to industry regulations and internal policies.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure and services to enhance performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• DevOps Integration: Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate cloud services into CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated deployment, testing, and release processes.
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability: Design and implement disaster recovery strategies and high availability solutions to ensure business continuity and resilience.
• Capacity Planning: Conduct capacity planning exercises to forecast resource requirements and scale cloud infrastructure to accommodate business growth.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Develop comprehensive documentation and best practice guides for cloud environments, sharing expertise with IT teams to facilitate effective cloud technology management.

• Experience in architecting, implementing, and managing cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
• Project management experience, coordinating across multiple teams.
• Expertise in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance standards.
• Experience with containerization technologies and microservices architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues and optimize performance.

• Bonus
• Hybrid working - 3 days office based