Principal Cloud Engineer

Six Degrees is a leading secure, integrated cloud services provider, where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in harnessing a truly diverse and inclusive culture.

Our business protects UK organisations with the goal of enabling them to operate effectively and securely in the cloud, by giving them secure platforms to innovate and grow. We support our customers on their digital transformation journey regardless of their maturity. Our vision is to be the UK’s number one provider of secure, integrated cloud services to the small to mid-size market.

The Technical Delivery team plays a pivotal role in the technical aspects of the ITIL service delivery. The team are involved in client Incident Management, Service Request Fulfilment, Problem Management and provide support to wider activities around Operational Delivery, Change Management, Event Management and Continual Improvement. The team ensure good quality technical documentation, (LLD, HLD, RFO, KB articles, Runbooks) and contributes to successful readiness checks when onboarding new customers through Service Transition processes.

Our Technical Delivery Principal Engineers are fundamental in the delivery of Azure cloud solutions for both new and existing clients.?The role collaborates with clients and key internal stakeholders to understand client’s high level requirements within the delivery of CloudOps, FinOps and SecOps reporting, remediation and optimisation strategies. You will also respond to and tune Azure Advisor recommendations that re relevant to the client solution and workloads.

This role will ensure customer documentation and reporting is maintained and updated working closely with the cloud engineers in delivery of Incident Resolution and Service Requests.

This will involve reviewing and implementing cloud infrastructure, ensuring the security and compliance of cloud environments, and managing the financial aspects of cloud usage to optimise cost-efficiency. A focus of the role also includes continuous monitoring and improvement of cloud operations to adapt to evolving client needs. This will include identifying opportunities proactive changes, enhancements and billable work through remediation activity and routine maintenance.

The ideal candidate should have proven experience applying and tuning Azure Advisor recommendations andAZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400 certified. As well as serverMCSE, RHCSA, VCA-DCV would be advantageous.

You will need strong technical skills in server infrastructure or end user compute (Windows server, Solaris, Linux, AD, Exchange, RDS, O365) or Cloud Virtualisation (Citrix, VMware, vSphere, Oracle OVM, Microsoft Azure).

Six Degrees is not interested in paying lip-service to diversity and inclusion, and just observing our statutory duties. We work to continually re-affirm our commitment to cultivating a workplace and society that embraces and vigorously defends equity, diversity and inclusion. This includes all aspects of recruitment and employment - our recruitment and selection processes are open and fair, and we will always consider any reasonable adjustments or flexible working requirements. We are also an active member of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (ENEI) who support us on this journey.

Our recruitment process:

We don’t like to have lengthy recruitment processes here at Six Degrees as it’s more important for us that you have the opportunity to meet with people you’ll work alongside. We will review all of our applications in detail and our Talent Acquisition team will arrange a telephone or video call if your background and experiences fits what we're looking. All being well, you will be invited to attend a behavioural interview with your line manager and members of the team to talk through your fit for the role in detail and explain more about Six Degrees. Some of our positions are so important to the business that we'll invite you back for a second and final interview, where you’ll be asked to complete a role-specific activity. After your final stage in the assessment process, we will confirm the outcome and hopefully welcome you to the Six Degrees family! Apply today at 6dg.co.uk.