Automation ofertas em Grã-Bretanha

Overview

Job Description
Junior Cloud Platform Engineer

Grade: 4
Reporting to: IT Infrastructure Manager
Location: Hybrid

About us

IQUW is a speciality (re)insurer at Lloyd's (Syndicate 1856) underwriting a diverse range of Property, Commercial and Speciality (re)insurance products from Cargo and Marine to Political Violence, Terror and War. We combine data, intelligent automation and human expertise to make smart decisions, fast.

ERS is the UK's largest specialist motor insurer with an A+ rating. We recognise that for some, motor insurance is more than just a must-have; it's a way of taking care of what stands at the heart of their passion or livelihood. For those people, standard insurance isn't enough. That's why we work exclusively with motor insurance brokers to help get under the skin of the most difficult insurance risks, helping build products to meet their customer's needs.

The role

Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and supporting all aspects of the IQUW Azure cloud platform environment. This will involve interpreting requirements and implementing highly available solutions to address these needs. You will work with a team of experienced Cloud Platform engineers to implement, support, and manage the Azure cloud estate.

You will gain knowledge in the role to support the system through self-learning, mentoring, and coaching. The role is hands-on, and you will be expected to build and configure the environment working with senior members in the team to support you day to day.

Key responsibilities

• Deploy and configure new solutions to meet business needs, using DevOps methodologies and automation while working with other members of the team.
• Troubleshoot, support, and maintain the platform, ensuring stability and uptime. Identify root causes and respond to incidents and service requests within defined SLAs.
• Manage and update automated deployment tools, including infrastructure-as-code Terraform scripts and other custom scripts (Bash/PowerShell).
• Support IQUW infrastructure, security, developers and cloud application owners in knowledge transfer and troubleshooting.
• Support IQUW operational teams in performing non-functional platform testing, including security, performance, and resilience testing.

The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list and you may be required to undertake any other reasonable duties compatible with your experience and competencies. This description may be varied from time to time to reflect changing business requirements.

Essential skills and experience

• Good communication skills (both written and verbal) as you will be engaging with several teams and users with varying levels of experience.
• Developer mindset with a drive to do a code first approach.
• Experience working in code development using version control systems, ideally Git.
• Basic experience and knowledge with Microsoft Azure technologies.
• Basic experience working with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.
• Basic experience creating or coding an application in any coding language.
• Basic experience in the software development lifecycle and the benefits of using an Agile methodology.
• Basic experience using Linux systems.
• Basic experience using scripting languages such as Bash or PowerShell
• Experience using pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps or similar.

Ideal qualifications, skills and experience

• Experience implementing/supporting solution in Azure cloud estate.
• Experience developing and implementing an application in either JavaScript or Python.
• Experience using containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Supporting open-source projects such as OpenTofu, ArgoCD, etc.
• Azure or other cloud certifications.

Desirable behavioural attributes

• Experience designing and building complex solutions.
• Eager to grow own knowledge as well as share that knowledge with others in and out of work.

Additional Information

• A full job description can be seen here