To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent
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Cloud and Data Center (C&DC) support servers, databases, storage, Azure Cloud & physical infrastructure for the whole of the RWE Group.
This support includes round-the-clock provision of platform services and development operations in collaboration with Managed Service Provider partners.
We are responsible for
- Engineering : Improving services & products to meet business needs. Design, consultancy, standard setting and 3rd line support.
- Automation & Development : accelerating & improving services through end-to-end automation & high quality code development
- Operations : daily operational support & financial management, including operational availability, deployment patching, incident resolution, request fulfilment.
Your responsibilities
- Senior technical expert / SME for Microsoft Azure platform security, policies and IT / general security representative for topics within the Cloud & Data Centre team’s remit.
- Be responsible for the detailed design and maintenance for support of RWE's Cloud and Data Centre (C&DC) security and policies in conjunction with other SME’s, Cyber Security, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
- Taking a lead from Cyber Security, create and maintain forward looking roadmaps for Azure security topics.
- Communicate and define RWE IT requirements and standards to the MSP teams and ensure adherence as well as to provide technical leadership to the teams.
- Support the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) and MSPs to help solve Microsoft Azure related security incidents.
- Work with Cyber Security, Enterprise Architects and other SMEs to support their strategy and create supportable, secure solutions.
- Operationalise security standards, policies and tooling as described by Cyber Security, and provide input for security assessments and audits.
- Work with Azure Platform and other SMEs in consulting to application teams towards migrating workloads, remediating platform service issues, and providing relevant guidance.
- Drive continuous service improvements including automation of operational processes and remediations; especially focusing on enhancing customer experience, reducing inefficiency and duplication, and accelerating speed to delivery.
- Directly support and if appropriate run project deliveries that impact C&DC security posture.
- Ensure ITIL procedures are adhered to and monitor / actively manage the resolution of incidents, problems and change requests for C&DC.
- Provide guidance and support for team members to foster growth.
Your profile
- 7 years technical IT and / or Cloud Security experience with a focus on MS Azure.
- Extensive experience understanding, impact assessing and implementing Azure IAM roles, policies, security groups, NACLs, encryption etc.
- Extensive experience using data-in-transit / certificate management, data-at-rest and key management
- Experienced in use of Azure PaaS.
- Excellent experience using Azure logging.
- Experience of data centres and remote site security.
- Excellent experience working with third party providers and managed service providers.
- Excellent diagnostic and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong communication and networking skills.
- Experience governing externals or managed service providers.
- Strong understanding of cloud benefits and ideally extensive experience working with Azure.
- Adept at both working autonomously and as part of a team to deliver solutions that tackle high complexity problems.
- Willingness to travel. Mostly (up to four days a month) between Germany and the UK. Global travel as required.
- Strong motivation to continuously improve knowledge on IT and soft skill topics.
- Ability to work closely with IT architects and project managers on both technical and planning topics in context related to the topics.
- Articulate complex technical topics in an understandable manner to staff members who are not in the technical detail.
- Understanding business and IT requirements, and translate into IT infrastructure solutions.
Advantageous, but not a must
- Knowledge and experience of interculture working.
- Open minded.
- Experience of user centric decision making.
- Self-confident speaking at all levels.
- Connecting people.
- Ready to adapt to organisational change.
- Attend IT events, summits, and other events to network with people from other companies and gain insights about new solutions and trends.
- Experience with recruitment & retention processes
Our offer
- Contributing to the Cloud and Data Centre journey from the start and influencing the operational and roadmap decisions.
- Responsibility for IT services used by all RWE staff globally.
- Dynamic environment with opportunity to own digital change and improvements.
- Daily interaction with key customers across all RWE OpCos.
- Working closely with multi-national external service providers.
- Competitive salary and benefits package plus annual discretionary bonus.
- Open and diverse company culture.
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working.