Cloud Operations Engineer

This award-winning specialist UK Financial Services Company are seeking an experienced 3rd line Infrastructure Engineer with Cloud experience who's eager to use and grow their technological skills in a role that provides the opportunity to make a real difference in a time of planned growth within the organisation.

Joining the Operations team, the role holder will be responsible for managing and maintaining IT infrastructure systems and services across the company's private data centre and hybrid cloud environments. Initially focusing on on-premise technologies and business applications, the company are migrating to Azure Cloud and as such, there will be a roadmap into Azure.

The ideal candidate will have in-depth experience at a 3rd Line support level with Microsoft technologies, Office 365 services, scripting, and automation. (Terraform would be ideal), backed up with Azure experience. The role incumbent will be comfortable working independently and as part of a team, proactively managing their own projects and tasks, confident collaborating with peers and responsible for identifying opportunities for improvements across our systems and processes.

Key Activities

• Supporting the day to day operations within the team, both on-prem and cloud with a mixture of project work, and BAU.
• Supporting with Office365 and the on-prem technology stack
• Utilizing Azure DevOps boards for backlog items, features and sprint planning
• Working alongside the rest of the team in an agile fashion, planning tasks and projects against business as usual activities.
• Act as level 3 escalation for systems and services under the cloud operations team
• Manage and maintain IT infrastructure systems, and services across Just's private data centre and hybrid cloud
• Work with product owners, architects and technology teams to design, implement and deliver technology solutions
• Proactively monitor and respond to service health alerts across the infrastructure systems and services platforms
• Identify process optimisation opportunities and contribute to and support the implementation of proposed solutions
• Create, manage and maintain excellent working relationship with stakeholders across the businesses * Maintain and manage relationships with vendor and technology partners

Skills, Experience, and Qualifications

• Microsoft Office 365 experience - security, policy, governance, compliance
• On-premise and cloud VDI solutions such as Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
• Exchange server on-premise and on-line, Migration experience between these.
• Experienced with configuring and administering monitoring platforms
• Microsoft Windows Server and associated roles such as Microsoft Active Directory, Group Policy, ADFS, Security, PKI, DNS, DHCP, etc
• Good understanding of networking, load balancing, clustering and firewalls

Microsoft Azure

· o Deploying and managing services within Microsoft Azure

· o Azure AD, conditional access and privileged identity management

• Scripting and automating with Azure PowerShell and Power Automate
• Terraform for managing Infrastructure-as-code
• Serverless, containerization and orchestration services
• CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps

Does this sound like you? An outstanding opportunity awaits, apply now!