About the job
The Role: 6 Month Contract with the potential to renew for a further 6 months. (Outside IR35)
The Solutions Engineer is our customer-facing, high-level engineering function for those who are supporting our customers to deliver cloud-native transformations. We are looking for a real specialist to Contralize and Migrate from on-prem to public cloud in a highly sensitive environment.
MUST HAVE SC/NPPV3 Clearance
Key Responsibilities
● Developing pipelines to deploy code all the way to production with Terraform, using GitHub
Actions
● Managing new demand for platform and application onboarding
● Assisting application development teams to architect their applications to be cloud native, or
helping them transform existing applications to cloud native where possible.
● Implementing monitoring and alerting
● Improving security posture of applications being migrated
● Creating secure deployment patterns and templates/modules for application development
teams to reuse.
● Gathering requirements for building and maintaining a centralised platform for product teams
to iterate on their applications in AWS.
● Setting best practices and policies, especially around microservice architecture
● Developing, maintaining and operating complex operational tooling (e.g. Kubernetes,
Opensearch, prometheus, grafana, Github or equivalent alternative technologies)
● Assessing customer technical capabilities and upskilling for reduced friction and increased
platform adoption.
● Enhancing operational reliability and scalability of existing products
● POC’ing new ideas and products, and balancing trade offs between technical,
analytical and product needs.
● Streamlining operational tasks through engineering and automation
● Improving operational visibility around core products such as tracking technologies,
improved metrics etc.
● Implementing integrations between components to improve the teams way of working
● Improving knowledge amongst the team through code reviews, documentation,
technical guidance and mentoring
● Reducing the number of DevOps resources in projects by enabling developers to be
more self-service.
Requirements
● Experience as a Solutions Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE or similar
● Strong understanding of Public Cloud – specifically AWS
● Hands-on experience of operational constraints and common issues from networking,
databases and general cloud-based pitfalls
● Thorough understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including but not limited to; CI / CD,
Docker, Kubernetes
● Ability to assess where an organisation is on its cloud-native journey and help guide them and
to enable infrastructure-as-code working practices
● Versioning and best practices of code, artefacts and deployments
● Development competency ideally in Golang, Ruby or Python and scripting in Bash
● Experience on building decoupled services with micro-service architecture
● Understanding of immutable delivery patterns
● Strong knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices
● Good problem resolution skills and understanding of symptoms to identify the root cause,
enjoys solving difficult technical problems
● Ability to prioritise tasks accordingly in relation to customer and business needs
● In-depth understanding of industry best practices
● A passion for new technology and automation
● Strong software engineering principles
● Great collaboration skills with people of all levels of technical ability
● An understanding of the importance of being user driven and the benefits of DevOps
principles, agile ways of working, collaboration and transparency
- ● Good understanding of physical data-centre infrastructure would be advantageous
