Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Milton Keynes: £47,000 - £54,000

Hybrid

Permanent

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team in Milton Keynes! The position will be responsible for the deployment and support of Azure applications using DevOps tools and methodologies for production, staging, and development environments.

This position sits within the Platform Services & Support team within AQA's Assessment Technology department and will report directly to the Platform Services and Support Manager.

What's in it for you:

At AQA we recognise our employees' contribution and in return we are proud to offer an extensive reward and benefit package.

This includes:

• 25 days' annual leave rising to 30 days with service, plus all Bank Holidays and additional Christmas office closure
• Flexible working environment and professional and personal development at your fingertips.
• 35 hour working week
• Excellent contributory pension (6% - 11.5% dependent on employee contribution)
• Life assurance, BUPA PMI and Health Cash Plan
• Enhanced maternity/paternity scheme

Activities:

• Deploy and support Azure applications using DevOps tools and methodologies.
• Provide advice and recommendations on Infrastructure and Security and proactively collaborate with architecture and application development teams to ensure the Infrastructure meets current and future business objectives.
• Implement system monitoring and alerting to ensure application health state is maintained.
• Provide technical support for all infrastructure, both in Azure and on premise.
• Ensure correct security controls are in place on all environments and assist in providing recommendations on additional security improvements.
• Implement and maintain performance monitoring of all infrastructure and provide recommendations on improvements.
• Be part of the out of hours incident support rota covering nights and weekends (typically around 4-6 weeks per year).
• Report upward to the Platform Services & Support Manager as required.

Experience

• Have a minimum of 2 years' experience in an Azure infrastructure engineer role.
• Knowledge of IAAS, PAAS and SAAS mainly in Azure.
• Knowledge of PowerShell, T-SQL, and other scripting languages.
• Knowledge of IaC, Bicep, and ARM.
• Knowledge of modern application deployments and configuration techniques via CI/CD pipelines, in particular Azure DevOp's YAML and classic pipelines.
• Knowledge and experience of troubleshooting automated and manual application deployments and configuration pipelines.

What next?

If the role looks of interest and you would like to apply, please do so via our portal. Every application will be provided with a written response!

We are reviewing applications as they come through and reserve the right to close this role early.

Closing date for applications is 23 May 2024