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Senior Cloud Engineer

Wimbledon

£40,000 to £50,000

A global leader for the sport business: digital, mobile, social, broadcast, results, content and professional services.

This company enables sport federations, event organisers, broadcasters, brands, teams and athletes to elevate their sports, accelerating performance and connecting to fans.

Working with well-known clients such UEFA, England Rugby and the BBC and whether it be through a tablet or App, live broadcast, commentary or social media campaigns this company bring your favourite sport to life!

If you have a passion for sport keep reading!

More about the role

The role required is based out of their Wimbledon office and will be focused primarily on our digital operations hosted in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. The Senior Cloud Engineer should support their ongoing software development and operations, he/she will be part of the team assisting the developers in the continuous integration, deployment, monitoring and testing of the code.

As a technology company, my client uses the latest technology to run their services in the cloud so they are looking for people who are passionate about technology and are excited to learn and use the latest toolsets and techniques. They are using containerization, serverless computing and platform-as-a-service offerings from the major cloud vendors to run their services delivering websites and video to audiences on a global scale.

My client uses a largely Microsoft based stack including Visual Studio, TFS and Microsoft Azure however their platforms are designed to run on any cloud solution and dedicated infrastructure. Given the role supports live sports events, candidates must be available for occasional work during weekends and evenings.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and management of cloud system architectures guaranteeing high availability, top performance and reliability being involved in continuous operation and improvements.
• Guarantee continuous integration and continuous delivery of our software.
• Design and management of container-based hosting environments
• Support to incident and problem management to identify root cause and fix, define and put in place improvements to avoid the problem occurring again.
• Interact with customers, understanding their requirements, help them to find the best technological solution for their needs
• Analyze and improve systems' performance & scalability and automate systems management.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Essentials

• Good knowledge of the cloud platform offerings (Azure preferred)
• Experience with systems & services monitoring tools and in log analysis.
• Understanding of DevOps best practices
• Ability to express and understand complex technical concepts.
• Being able to properly communicate in English (spoken and written).
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure provisioning tools
• Fluency in automating manual jobs using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Powershell preferred)
• A passion for new technology and the emerging media landscape

Desirable

• Experience with Content Distribution Networks (Akamai highly desirable)
• Knowledge of TFS and release management
• Knowledge in orchestration of Docker containers (Kubernetes preferred)
• Knowledge of best practice for cloud IT security
• Microsoft Azure's Flow and Application Insights experience
• Knowledge of NoSQL database (MongoDB preferred)
• Linux server management
• Interest in sport
• Enjoy the intellectual challenge, the technical difficulties

Due to the amount of CVs we receive we will only be able to contact you if your application is successful.

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