Senior Cloud Delivery Engineer

About The Role

• Design and deploy AWS cloud solutions that meet business requirements and ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with customers to understand their business requirements and provide guidance on how to leverage the AWS cloud to meet those requirements.
• Configure and manage AWS services, including Virtual Machines, Storage, Networking, and Security.
• Create and maintain documentation for AWS cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Develop and implement AWS cloud migration plans.
• Stay up to date with the latest AWS cloud technology trends and provide expert guidance to clients.
• Identifying opportunities to modernize existing customer environments.
• Collaborating with other engineers to improve tools, processes and working practices.
• Mentor, lead and provide guidance for engineers within the team.

Teams to collaborate with

• Portfolio and Propositions - collaborate to provide engineering support for the Business Apps & Cloud Portfolio. Provide feedback to improve customer solutions.
• Solutions Architecture – support team with technical expertise to help underpin and translate client need and create a design proposal.
• Customer Experience and Managed Services – collaborate to ensure a smooth service transition from technical delivery into in-life support where required.

About You

Behavioural competencies – organisational and behavioural fit.

• Flexible and creative to take considered risks.
• Learn and adapt quickly to changing situations.
• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure.
• Ability to travel to different sites and locations on when required.
• Manages conflict and challenges in an open and constructive manner.

Critical competencies – technical fit

Essential:

• Experience in designing, deploying, and managing AWS cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Strong understanding of AWS cloud services and architecture
• Extensive experience of Jenkins, Terraform and Python
• Knowledge of networking concepts and tools, such as VPN, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls
• Understanding of security concepts and best practices in the AWS cloud environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with clients to understand their business requirements and to lead technical workshops.
• Ability to take business requirements and translate that into high-level and low-level designs.
• Ability to articulate design decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Demonstrable experience with the following technologies:

• AWS and Best Practices
• Terraform - IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
• Config Management (Ansible, Puppet or similar)
• Knowledge of Networking and Security Best Practices

Desirable:

Demonstrable experience with the following technologies:

• Programming Languages such as: Python, PowerShell, Golang
• Experience with container platforms (EKS, Kubernetes, and Docker)
• Experience with more than one hyper-scaler platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with HashiCorp tooling (Consul, Vault, Packer)
• Windows / Linux OS's

About Us

About Claranet

Founded at the beginning of the dot.com bubble in 1996, our CEO Charles Nasser had a light bulb moment to develop a truly customer-focused IT business. Since then, Claranet has grown from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the UK to being one of the leading business modernisation experts, who deliver solutions across 11+ countries.

At Claranet, we’re experienced in implementing progressive technology solutions which help our customers solve their epic business challenges. We’re committed to understanding their problems, delivering answers quickly, and making a lasting impact to their business.

We are agile, focused and experienced in business modernisation. Our approach helps customers make genuine, significant shifts in their business strategy, to deliver financial savings, boost innovation, and create a resilient business. We continually invest in our people and the latest technologies, so our customers get peace of mind knowing that they have access to the best talent and services.

In the UK we have over 500 staff working in London, Gloucester, Warrington, Bristol, and Leeds, or as homeworkers.

Working for Claranet

Here at Claranet we pride ourselves on going the extra mile for and with our employees (yes, we really mean with). We offer an extensive benefits package that you can tailor to your needs, inclusive of a matching contribution pension scheme, healthcare, insurance, dental, discounted gyms and app supported benefit access.

But what we think makes us different is ‘Team Claranet,’ our dedicated internal part of the business that supports you with matters close to your heart. We proudly support local charities in each of our office locations, support employees with paid charity leave, organise key charity fundraising event per year and have a dedicated committee responsible for supporting employee’s fundraising efforts.

Claranet are one of the 10 founding members of TC4RE (Technology Community for Racial Equality.) Being a part of a group of leading UK technology organisations, we are dedicated to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce. We are also very proud members of Tech Talent Charter, a government supported, industry-led membership group created to address the UK’s tech talent shortage and diversity gap through collective action.

Our Vision

Our vision is to become the most trusted technology solutions partner; renowned for being the best and brightest, having lasting impact with our customers and delivering exceptional returns to our stakeholders.

Position Summary

The Senior Cloud Delivery Engineer will work in the Business Apps and Cloud Practice and will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining our clients' AWS cloud infrastructure. They will work with clients to understand their business needs and provide expert guidance on how to leverage the AWS cloud to meet those needs. Additionally, the Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the stability, availability, and security of the clients' AWS cloud infrastructure.

Role Mission

Claranet’s strategy is to build long-term, trusted relationships with its customers by delivering market-leading, integrated managed services. We are seeking a senior cloud delivery engineer to work in as part of a team of engineers to deliver the AWS cloud to customers.

Objectives and Key Results

• Contribute to the target of 70% of services are scalable and repeatable.
• Ensures that solutions are engineered in a manner that is scalable and repeatable to optimise delivery efficiency and commercial cost effectiveness.
• Use design and delivery methodologies that are industry best practice and consistent where possible across the team.
• Ensure that products and services are engineered and delivered to the leading market standards, using where possible repeatable designs.