Senior Cloud Engineer

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Overview

We, at Kantar, for the Technology project, are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our growing team in Kantar. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for providing expert mentorship and technical leadership in crafting, putting in practice, and running our cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with our cloud architects, engineers, and partners to ensure the successful deployment and ongoing operation of our cloud-based solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and manage Kantar cloud estate span on Both Azure and AWS.

• Develop and maintain cloud architecture and design standards, ensuring alignment to the best industry practices and security standards.

• Design, implement, and run cloud-based infrastructure, including compute, storage, network, and security components.

• Serve as a technical lead for cloud product offering and projects, providing mentorship to team colleagues and partners.

• Evaluate new cloud technologies and services, making recommendations for adoption and implementation as appropriate.

• Resolve sophisticated cloud infrastructure issues, working with other team members and vendors as needed.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement cloud solutions and to ensure seamless integration of cloud services with other enterprise systems.

• Generate and update documentation with technical information and training materials cloud infrastructure and services.

• Developing scripts for deployment, monitoring, reporting, and alerts, ensuring a robust, redundant, scalable infrastructure.

• Automate infrastructure management using IaC (Terraform, Ansible, or scripting).

• Support cloud product team on Azure platform with a focus on Azure Well-Architected Framework Pillars: Reliability, Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency.

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Proven track record in designing, implementing, and running cloud-based infrastructure in a large-scale enterprise environment.

• Expertise in cloud computing technologies, such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

• Strong understanding of networking and security concepts, including VPN, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS.

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

• Relevant industry certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect, or Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, are a plus.

• 3+ years of Microsoft Azure/AWS experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization of cloud infrastructure and platforms.

• 3+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions implementation in any of the public cloud technologies. (preferably Microsoft Azure cloud environment but AWS and Google experience also considered).

• Experience in understating design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, and distributed application systems.

• Experience in planning and migrating workloads to cloud.

• Experience working within an Agile framework.

• Experience in IaC development with Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible (preferably with Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps)

• Proficient with GIT to perform platform source code management.

• Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security and CI/CD tooling.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Desired but not mandate - scripting with Bash, Python and PowerShell.

Do you believe you could be a phenomenal match? Apply to this job vacancy!

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.  We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, nobody knows people better than Kantar.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.