Cloud Platform Engineer, Jobs, 70407

Cloud Platform Engineer

  • Salary: Competitive plus benefits
  • Type of work: Permanent
  • Location: Glasgow
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About the role

Why choose us? 

  • Hybrid working model to work both from home and at the office
  • Career Progression Framework & Personal Development
  • Private medical insurance
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Discount on vehicle purchases, servicing, parts and rental

Hours
Full Time: Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm plus On Call Rota

What you can Expect

In this role, you will have the opportunity to influence the technical approach we take to designing, implementing, and maintaining our digital products.

Working in a hybrid environment with cross functional squads you’ll help to establish best practice around continuous integration and deployment, while evangelising automation throughout and taking a proactive approach to ensure performance and stability is maintained.

Some of your key duties will include:

  • Systems integration and build: Deploy and maintain critical systems, with a particular focus on automation, ease of configuration, reduction of human error, repeatability and security.
  • Configuration management: through automation help design and implement pipelines in the cloud. Using monitoring to measure service performance
  • Infrastructure Operations: Utilize infrastructure-as-code to deliver automated, predictable and scalable solutions, infrastructure and services
  • Solution architecture: Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration. Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions. Evangelise automated, fault-tolerant and secure developments and practices

We are looking for people with a “can do” attitude to changes in the requirements, the technologies, and the problems we are solving at short notice. We want people who are pragmatic and can adapt as situations evolve and always want to learn new things.

Essential Knowledge and Experience

  • Digital Mindset maximise the capabilities of applications for their role and evaluates and supports the use of new technologies and digital tools
  • Improvement Mindset Encourages and supports Team discussions on improvement initiatives
  • Complexity: Investigating and managing any anomalies to resolution and assisting in wider investigations as required.
  • Collaboration: Support and work alongside engineering teams on the latest technologies. Empower development squads to build and deliver software solutions and services

Key skills that will benefit you: 

  • Experience designing and building solutions within Azure
  • Ability to monitor services, ensuring performance and stability
  • Deploy a variety of resources in Azure, including IaaS, PaaS, and serverless
  • Experience with the Hub-Spoke Model
  • Proficient in cloud orchestration using Terraform and Ansible
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
  • Creation and management of CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps
  • Strong communication and documentation skills
  • Strong judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills

Beneficial technical experience: 

  • Linux Administration
  • Knowledge of Networking
  • Familiarity with HAProxy
  • Eventstore
  • MySQL/MariaDB/Galera
  • Redis
  • vSphere / VMWare

Our Culture

Arnold Clark is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, unique perspectives and multiple approaches are celebrated. We care about our employees and our communities, we nurture talent and encourage ambition, and we are passionate about people who take pride in their work. Our employees are at the heart of everything we do – diverse in our make-up, united in our goals.

To find out more about Life at Arnold Clark, visit our website.

Employment within the Arnold Clark Group is offered subject to satisfactory reference and disclosure check.

Benefits

Every Arnold Clark employee is entitled to a wide range of benefits, including:

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Discount on new and used vehicles

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Contributory pension scheme

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Private medical insurance

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Life assurance