Lead Cloud Engineer

AXA UK; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in the UK is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to enhance their cloud capabilities while driving best practices across engineering teams. The position involves operational oversight, continuous improvements, and mentoring. The ideal candidate will possess solid AWS experience and relevant certifications, with a competitive salary up to £75,000 and a hybrid work arrangement.

Benefits

Annual performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Private medical cover

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Strong experience in AWS and cloud platforms.
• Experience mentoring juniors and peers.
• Ability to improve operational practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support solutions for MPI environments.
• Provide systems administration support across environments.
• Lead a technology team to deliver secure application components.

Skills

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Certification

Terraform Associate (HashiCorp) Certification

Automation tools knowledge

AWS security models

Networking security practices

Stakeholder management skills

Job description

Description

We have a new opportunity for a Lead Cloud Engineer to join us. Reporting into the Platform Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for the safe adoption of our managed IaaS cloud through improving delivery best practice across our engineering teams and performing tech leadership in AWS hosted Managed Public IaaS (MPI) solutions. You’ll drive continuous improvements in our AWS cloud capability through technical excellence, operational oversight, resilience improvements and quality assurance. You’ll be able to demonstrate solid AWS experience and comprehensive skills in Virtual Machine configuration management and have strong awareness of good operational management principles.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and supporting solutions to manage and automate our MPI development, test and production environments to improve the customer value flow
• Providing systems administration and operational support to development teams across both on-premise and cloud environments
• Leading a technology team from within, contributing to the design and development of secure and efficient application and infrastructure components, both internal and external facing, with a strong focus on business outcomes
• Carrying out analysis, design and consultancy for build and implementation of IT solutions to meet complex business needs
• Ensuring solutions are developed in line with strategic target architecture both from an application design and Infrastructure/platform perspective
• Partnering with solution architects and global product management to define standardized solution and services baselines, application add-ons and industrialized delivery options
• Identifying opportunities for improving methods, processes and use of toolsets
• Managing platform cost controls through working with our FinOps practice
• Collaborating with our Cyber security teams to continually improve our security posture
• Supporting identification and management of technical debt concerns

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

What you’ll bring

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Certification
• Terraform Associate (HashiCorp) Certification
• Strong experience and knowledge of automation tools and continuous delivery techniques with the ability to implement these into new environments
• Awareness of current and emerging technology trends in cloud platforms
• Experience with AWS security models and enterprise integration patterns
• Solid experience of networking and networking security practices
• Ability to improve operational practices and manage third party suppliers to a high standard
• Good stakeholder management skills
• Prior experience of mentoring juniors and peers

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer

• Competitive annual salary of up to £75,000 dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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Who we are

AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.