Senior Cloud Engineer

Department: Technology - Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Manchester, UK, Manchester, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Own large technical components. 
• Write high-quality code (appropriate style, patterns, organisation, comments, testability) with feedback and support. 
• Follow well-known principles when appropriate e.g. KISS, DRY, SOLID. 
• Test code thoroughly and proactively, and use good practices with feedback and support. 
• Create small and manageable pull requests. 
• Build loosely coupled components. 
• Able to design and implement systems that comprise of multiple technical components for a given set of features 
• Actively participate in requirements gathering and solution design. Communicate engineering choices/concerns. 
• Consider non-functional requirements, and promote good resilience, performance, security, observability, and auditability practices to help other engineers deepen their knowledge. 
• Document and share designs. Ensure the designs are peer-reviewed and/or reviewed as part of the appropriate forums, including through Technology Design Authority (TDA) when appropriate. 
• Understand continuous integration and the value of integrating small chunks of code into the main branch frequently 
• Proactively communicate progress to your team. Use your experience to unblock yourself on time. Rely on documentation, forums, and technical knowledge to resolve blockers. 
• Clearly and confidently articulate the risk of technical problems to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. legal, compliance). 
• Consider the impact that your work has on the product, business or customer. 
• Demonstrate detailed -SME- knowledge in several domains. 
• Actively engage in the roadmap development with your team. 
• Use your understanding of system functionality to identify large limitations and impactful enhancements. 
• Lead discussions on new or existing tools, technologies, automation, and engineering practices while being pragmatic in what can be changed or introduced vs what needs to be delivered. 
• Demonstrate tools/frameworks, and new practices to the wider software engineering chapter (community of practice). 
• Take part in initiatives to improve the practices of the engineering discipline. 

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Strong experience with AWS, Terraform and GtiHub Actions (or similar tooling). 
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures with a focus on efficiency, automation, resilience and auditability. 
• Ability to write tests and testable code. 
• Ability to write concise and precise documentation.  
• Strong experience with distributed version control systems (e.g. Git). 
• Experience in building and maintaining infrastructure as code and shared Platform tooling.  
• Experience working with and cultivating an Agile approach. 
• Experience of practical FinOps and cloud cost control. 
• Experience of Azure cloud. 
• Advanced numerate degree 

Job Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday PLUS your BIRTHDAY off
• Pension contribution with Royal London
• Life Assurance
• Private medical, dental and optical health insurance with Axa
• Hybrid working – Wrexham 
• Free breakfast available