Senior Cloud Services Engineer

Royal Ballet and Opera; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Ballet and Opera seeks a Senior Cloud Services Engineer to design, build, and monitor AWS-based infrastructure and enterprise applications, leveraging Terraform and Ansible for automation. You will focus on scalable EC2/S3 deployments, DNS management via Route 53, and maintaining robust security and recovery strategies.

The role emphasizes practical implementation, best practices, and continuous improvement in cloud services across the organisation. London-based office presence is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience designing robust, scalable AWS architectures and automation pipelines.
• Hands-on with Route 53, EC2, S3 and IaC tooling like Terraform/Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure and enterprise apps with a focus on automation.
• Ensure security, compliance and disaster recovery for cloud deployments.

Skills

Architecture Design & Strategy

Infrastructure Automation

DNS Management

System Scaling & Optimization

Security & Compliance

Disaster Recovery & Backup

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS Route 53

Job description

Our Technology Department is responsible for the management of all services, infrastructure and business projects across the organisation, ensuring RBO staff have the technology and tools to be able to fulfill their roles and operate effectively. We are now seeking a Senior Cloud Services Engineer to join the team and provide deep insight into AWS Cloud technologies and infrastructure services.

In this role you will use your experience to design, build, maintain and monitor both the infrastructure and enterprise applications across the organisation with a focus towards best practice and automation technologies.

The role demands proficiency in several skills, each categorized into four ascending levels: Awareness, Working, Proficient, and Expert.

Skills needed for this role level:

• Architecture Design & Strategy: (Level: Practitioner): Develop and implement robust, scalable, and high-availability architectural designs for AWS and Nutanix environments, focusing on services like Route 53, EC2, and integrating infrastructure automation through Terraform and Ansible.
• Infrastructure Automation: (Level: Practitioner): Design and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring efficient provisioning, configuration, and management of AWS resources.
• DNS Management: (Level: Practitioner): Lead the management and optimization of AWS Route 53 for DNS resolution, including routing policies, health checks, and domain registration.
• System Scaling & Optimization: (Level: Practitioner): Design and implement scalable systems on AWS EC2 and S3, including load balancing, auto-scaling, and performance tuning.
• Security & Compliance: (Level: Practitioner): Ensure all AWS deployments comply with industrystandard security protocols and company policies. Implement and manage security groups, IAM roles, and policies.
• Disaster Recovery & Backup: (Level: Practitioner): Develop and maintain disaster recovery strategies for AWS environments, ensuring data integrity and availability.