Cloud Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

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Would you like to be a part of a digital transformation journey and be part of a team that is constantly evolving? Do you want to be involved in work that has a meaningful purpose? If yes, then this could be the role for you!
Job Summary
You'll be instrumental in shaping the future of our technical landscape, focusing on vital infrastructure evolution, optimising environments, and refining CI/CD processes. Part of a dedicated platform sub-team, you'll be building the foundations on which our core systems operate, offering crucial technical guidance to colleagues and internal customers, and actively developing individuals to foster their growth.
Team Summary
The post sits within Digital and Data Services (DDS) Technical Operations, a growing team who are responsible for the ongoing development, delivery and support of over 20 digital services to internal users and our customers and suppliers, attaining a system uptime across these services of over 99.9%. The post reports to the Lead Cloud Engineer and will have line management responsibility for at least one Cloud Engineer., + Lead and guide team members, manage performance to ensure a high-performing team, and support staff development through regular feedback
+ Guide the platform team's workstreams, delivering impactful infrastructure projects, including migrating and rebuilding existing infrastructure from legacy architecture to a Platform Engineering approach.
+ Standardise and manage CI/CD processes, promoting automation at every stage
+ Continuously review and recommend enhancements for the existing AWS estate, identifying areas for optimisation and increased efficiency
+ Develop self-service tooling through Internal Developer Portals (IDP), working with Development, QA, and TechOps to deliver products (platforms) that meet their requirements.
+ Harmonise lower environments with Production and embed environment management processes
+ Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
+ Create comprehensive documentation for platform tooling, CI/CD, and IaC., Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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+ Cloud & Production Expertise: Extensive experience with production-grade infrastructure, particularly AWS (VPC, EC2, Load Balancers, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, CloudFront).
+ Infrastructure as Code: Deep expertise with Terraform, Ansible would be a plus
+ CI/CD Migration Experience: Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Travis CI), especially within migration projects (e.g., from TravisCI, AWS CodePipeline to Jenkins).
+ Containerisation: Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes, in particular AWS ECS and EKS.
+ Proficient in Bash, Python, or Go., + Leadership
+ Managing a Quality Service
+ Making Effective Decisions
+ Changing and Improving

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ AWS and Terraform

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

Alongside your salary of £46,293, Crown Commercial Service contributes £13,411 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:
+ Competitive salary
+ Generous pension scheme
+ A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
+ Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
+ Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
+ Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank
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