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Role Purpose:

To help with the group's digital transformation to the cloud and supporting the infrastructure requirements at a 3rd line level, this role will involve project and BAU work as directed. The underlying objectives are to deliver a stable, resilient, and scalable cloud platform that empowers the group to deliver business applications when and where they are required. You will be expected to use your skill set as a cloud analyst to move the group towards our goal of application and infrastructure modernisation through transformation. You will be joining a highly skilled and motivated group of SME's who are happy to both share knowledge and learn from others. The group are very much technology focused and are looking to expand through acquisition. We are currently undergoing a period of digital transformation that is being led by IT, so this is a very exciting time to join.

Key Responsibilities:

Accountable for the support and development of hybrid cloud infrastructure
Accountable for the support of the cloud infrastructure across the group
Supporting DevOps and Development Teams
Work with the Architecture team to deliver strategic roadmaps
Ensure that Security considerations are embedded in all work undertaken
To work with 3rd party support services as required
To deliver technical designs to remediate against identified problems
Provide design authority expertise to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose and delivered to an agreed standard.
To work with NOC to ensure all aspects of the infrastructure and are actively monitored
To ensure regular health checks and appropriate patching is carried out
To ensure right level of documentation is created, available and maintained for the environment
To ensure that that all backup services for the group are appropriate and maintained accordingly
To continue to develop the groups technical capabilities through the use of existing and emerging technologies
The ability to learn new technology and to also share that knowledge with others
Excellent understanding of the commercial and business impact of IT outages with the business
Carry out performance/capacity planning for the IT Infrastructure

Key Competencies:

Experience of Technical problem solving from a complex environment
The ability to automate what are traditionally iterative manual tasks
Excellent problem management skills.
Strong prioritization skills
Solutions driven
Passion for technology
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to manage multiple streams of work under pressure
High levels of tenacity and ownership
Team player
Understanding of all relevant security standards

Key Skills and Knowledge:

Essential

Cloud Engineering / networking experience with Azure
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripting including ARM templates, JSON and Terraform
Exposure to and use of containerization technology (Kubernetes)
Use of API Management tools including APIM, Apigee
Use of DevOps tools including GIT, Azure DevOps
Windows AD inc Powershell
Office 365 and Azure AD
MS Windows Server 2012-2019

Desirable

Other cloud platform experience e.g. AWS, GCP
Azure Cloud Services and components including Data Bricks, Data Lake, Function Apps, SQL
Experience of Microsoft Service Fabric in Azure
Backup technologies including Rubrik
Hyper Converged Data centre experience
Citrix Netscaler Gateways
CheckPoint Firewalls
Storage Area Networks
Modern monitoring platform knowledge
Compliance and Security Technologies
Professional qualifications that support your experience
Excellent knowledge of the ITIL framework

Cloud Analyst

Cloud Analyst

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