Hybrid Senior Cloud Engineer

at Chetwood Bank

• Job title: Senior Cloud Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Manchester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Cloud Engineer responsible for leading and coordinating deliveries for Cloud and Developer Experience. Working effectively with stakeholders and internal customers.

Responsibilities

• Own large technical components.
• Write high-quality code (appropriate style, patterns, organisation, comments, testability) with feedback and support.
• Follow well-known principles when appropriate e.g. KISS, DRY, SOLID.
• Test code thoroughly and proactively, and use good practices with feedback and support.
• Create small and manageable pull requests.
• Build loosely coupled components.
• Able to design and implement systems that comprise of multiple technical components for a given set of features
• Actively participate in requirements gathering and solution design. Communicate engineering choices/concerns.
• Consider non-functional requirements, and promote good resilience, performance, security, observability, and auditability practices to help other engineers deepen their knowledge.
• Document and share designs. Ensure the designs are peer-reviewed and/or reviewed as part of the appropriate forums, including through Technology Design Authority (TDA) when appropriate.
• Understand continuous integration and the value of integrating small chunks of code into the main branch frequently
• Proactively communicate progress to your team. Use your experience to unblock yourself on time. Rely on documentation, forums, and technical knowledge to resolve blockers.
• Clearly and confidently articulate the risk of technical problems to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. legal, compliance).
• Consider the impact that your work has on the product, business or customer.
• Demonstrate detailed -SME- knowledge in several domains.
• Actively engage in the roadmap development with your team.
• Use your understanding of system functionality to identify large limitations and impactful enhancements.
• Lead discussions on new or existing tools, technologies, automation, and engineering practices while being pragmatic in what can be changed or introduced vs what needs to be delivered.
• Demonstrate tools/frameworks, and new practices to the wider software engineering chapter (community of practice).
• Take part in initiatives to improve the practices of the engineering discipline.

Requirements

• Strong experience with AWS, Terraform and GtiHub Actions (or similar tooling).
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures with a focus on efficiency, automation, resilience and auditability.
• Ability to write tests and testable code.
• Ability to write concise and precise documentation.
• Strong experience with distributed version control systems (e.g. Git).
• Experience in building and maintaining infrastructure as code and shared Platform tooling.
• Experience working with and cultivating an Agile approach.
• Experience of practical FinOps and cloud cost control.
• Experience of Azure cloud.
• Advanced numerate degree

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Incentive Bonus
• Company Car Scheme
• 25 days holiday PLUS your BIRTHDAY off
• Pension contribution with Royal London
• Life Assurance
• Private medical, dental and optical health insurance with Axa
• Hybrid working – Wrexham
• Free breakfast available