Cloud Engineer – Role Description
Location: United Kingdom
Division: Professional Services
Reports into: Architecture & Engineering MC
Grade: Consultant
The way we work reflects the values at the heart of our business:
Partnership, we become one team and family with organisations, helping them to navigate change and stay agile.
Integrity, our people really care, going beyond the brief to make change happen for organisations and citizens.
Innovation, we bring together the right technologies and services to design solutions that work.
Passion, we are passionate about — and dedicated to — public services and improving people’s lives.
Role Description
The Cloud Engineer is an important role that will provide engineering expertise across the practice’s cloud migration programmes and engagements.
The role holder will be familiar with managing public cloud infrastructures, across Azure, AWS and VMware and will be actively engaged within cloud programmes providing delivery and deployment activities for cloud migration projects. The role will require infrastructure and application assessment to document system knowledge reports, working with an architect and project managers to support ongoing projects as well as being involved in the application migration workstreams, using tools such as Azure Site Recovery, River Meadow and Carbonite as well as manual methods to migrate application stacks to the new platforms.
This role is involved in all aspects of cloud engineering based on platforms such as VMware, Microsoft Azure and AWS. The role holder will be experienced in supporting and delivering Hybrid cloud migrations as well as native.
Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities are:
- Supporting and encouraging Diversity and Inclusion within the team and the wider organisation
- Synchronisation of data and systems to migrate servers and applications to the cloud
- Building public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud services and configuration using Infrastructure as Code and/or manual processes.
- Conduct system validation and performance testing and compile runbooks and reports
- Analysis of cloud and on-premises infrastructure and servers to define and execute migration run-books
- Remediation of infrastructure issues and support of testing prior to, and during, migrations and early life support for applications
- Root cause analysis of faults and identification and remediation of incidents
- Working within a migration team to deliver migration programmes
- Ensure personal billability/business development utilisation is maintained at or above the agreed level with proactive intervention to reduce bench time
Role Objectives
The role holder will have ongoing objectives alongside other specific objectives that will be set from time to time.
- Participate in regular project calls both internal and with clients
- Participate in regular team calls
- Responsible for highlighting any issues with the project to the project manager
- Ensure personal billability/business development utilisation is maintained at or above the agreed level with proactive intervention to reduce bench time
What we are looking for
Agilisys Services -Professional services is growing rapidly and sits at the heart of how Agilisys is seeking to become the “Technology Partner of Choice for the UK Public Sector.” We are looking for an individual that can lead and build an effective discovery, licensing and optimisation capability for our clients whilst embodying the core Agilisys values of Partnership, Integrity, Innovation and Passion.
You will have an established track record, with at least 3 years of implementing and maintaining servers and associated back office IT infrastructure for small and medium sized organisations, including support and migration.
In addition, at least 1 years of experience working with cloud technologies is key, you will hold at least one appropriate AWS and/or Azure foundation, associate, or professional certification.
Ideally, you will also have experience of working within or with the UK public sector but relevant experience in the private sector will suffice.
Candidate Attributes
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Attribute |
Minimum requirement |
Very good looks like |
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Delivery experience |
1 years+ managing and maintaining on-premises infrastructure and/or cloud infrastructure services using VMware, Azure or AWS services as individual clouds for a small/medium sized business. |
3 years+ managing and maintaining infrastructure and/or cloud IaaS services using VMware, Azure or AWS services as individual clouds for a small/medium sized business. Experience with the Microsoft stack including Active Directory, networking and administration to system level would also be advantageous. |
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Skills, qualifications, certificates |
AWS or Azure Associate level cloud certification or equivalent Microsoft server or network management certification. |
AWS and Azure Professional Certification, ITIL Foundation or equivalent Microsoft server or network management certification. ITL Foundation |
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Emotional Intelligence |
Role model for company values (see above), manage their emotions and respond rather than react |
Role model for company values, good understanding and engagement with others, whilst managing their emotions, able put themselves in other’s shoes and respond rather than react |
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Passion, Ambition, Aspiration |
Self-starter, passionate about improvement of delivery and self-manage their delivery |
Demonstrably self-motivated, able to improve the way that the team works to achieve complex goals and objectives |
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Communication Style |
Good written skills, able to draft written technical reports and documents (1,000 to 2,000 words). Awareness of others communication styles and needs and adapts own style to suit, comfortable and confident in communicating with clients and internal technical stakeholders |
Good written skills, able to draft written technical reports and documents (1,000 to 2,000 words). Awareness of others communication styles and needs and adapts own style to suit, comfortable and confident in communicating with clients and internal technical stakeholders
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What we can offer you:
If you are a results-driven individual with a passion for delivering innovative technology solutions and have a strong track record in senior management roles, then we would love to hear from you.
This role will offer exposure to the right mix of challenges, within a culture that promotes continuous learning and development.
Benefits include:
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- Health Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Access to exclusive discounts and offers through the company’s “Perks at Work” scheme
- 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy more)
We thrive on innovation which is best done through in-person collaboration. This role will work from our office (Scale Space, White City) – this is where Agilisys is co-located along with other Blenheim Chalcot portfolio companies.
Process
Simply submit your CV.
We invest in our recruitment process to ensure we attract the very best talent. Individuals seeking employment at Agilisys must note that we see diversity as something that creates a better workplace and delivers better outcomes. As such, we are keen to maximise the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from all.
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