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Role: Cloud Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Sheffield, UK (Hybrid - 3 days onsite is mandate)
Employment Type: Sub-con
Job Description
The successful candidate will be a student of the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) philosophy as applied to managing large-scale cloud infrastructure and will possess skills and experience within one or more of the following areas. They will demonstrate a willingness to learn additional skills via certification and/or on-the-job learning where required:
- Programming Software Network Principles
- Experience with SRE and Azure DevOps
- Ability to script Bash/PowerShell Azure CLI code Python C Java query SQL Kusto query language
- Experience with software versioning control systems, e.g. GitHub, and CI/CD systems
- Programming experience in the following languages: PowerShell, Terraform, Python, Windows command prompt, and object-oriented programming languages
- Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting, preferably Red Hat Systems
- Understanding of hardware and software principles and storage technologies: SSD, HDD, NVMe, CPU architectures, and Memory
- Operating system principles, especially network stack fundamentals
- Understanding of network protocols and network design
Cloud Infrastructure Platform Engineering
Cloud Infrastructure Platform Engineering Azure preferred
Cloud Technologies
- Ability to build, operate, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure data services at scale
- Experience of engineering and deploying a range of Services in Azure
- Experience in dealing with multiple support groups that contribute to a Service
- Experience working with highly available/high-load web infrastructure, e.g. web proxies, reverse proxies
- Data Quality, Data Management, Data Controls, Data Governance
- Security and Compliance: e.g. IAM and cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools
- Troubleshooting service support experience
- A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanisms necessary to successfully implement change
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex problems, especially those resulting from interactions across a cloud services and application stack
- Strong documentation, change management, and agile development ethos
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Technology Stack
- Technical knowledge and breadth of Azure technology services: Identity, Networking, Compute, Storage, Web, Containers, Databases
- Cloud Big Data Technologies: Azure Cloud, Azure IAM, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Logic App, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Data Lake Store, S3, Synapse Analytics, and/or PowerBI
- Experience with server operating system and infrastructure technologies: Nginx/Apache, CosmosDB, Linux, Bash, PowerShell, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and Automation tools: Terraform, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation/Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
- Streaming platforms: Azure Event Hubs or Kafka and stream processing services such as Spark
- Experience with Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration Automation Response (SOAR) technologies, especially cloud-based is a significant asset
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Education and Experience
The successful candidate will possess:
- Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and passion for learning
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, or a related field (advantageous)
- Bachelor’s degree in any Science, Technology, Engineering, or Medical (STEM) field accompanied with data technology and/or programming experience also considered
- Applicants without a Bachelor’s degree will be considered if they have demonstrable career experience within one or more of the required areas and/or have relevant industry certifications in Cloud, Data, or Cybersecurity
- CSA are a supportive team who welcome candidates from diverse skills and educational backgrounds. Thus, candidates with transferrable skills gained through software development or any other technology background will also be considered
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C, or similar (preferred)
- Experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g., Financial Services (advantageous)
- Understanding of cybersecurity principles, global financial services business models, regional compliance regulations, and applicable laws (advantageous)
- Understanding and knowledge of common industry cybersecurity frameworks, standards, and methodologies, including OWASP, ISO2700x series, PCI DSS, GLBA, Global data security and privacy acts, FFIEC guidelines, CIS, and NIST standards (advantageous)
Skills
Mandatory Skills: Azure Analysis Services, Azure App Service
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