Cloud Engineer

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: Reading / Forbury Place, Havant / Penner Road.

Salary: £50,100 - £75,100 + performance related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent Full Time Flexible First options available.

As a member of the central Cloud Engineering team you would contribute to the design and delivery of cloud services delivered within SSE, the primary objective is to drive cloud infrastructure enhancements, develop the toolchain and automation patterns required to empower transformation. The role will provide the opportunity to be part of SSE's digital transformation and migration of applications to Cloud, ensuring the platform achieves the target standards of efficiency, resilience and availability required by the organisation. This role focuses on the core cloud platform and associated infrastructure and will give the right candidate the opportunity to contribute to infrastructure projects across a variety of services and across cloud platforms.

• Partner with Product owners and management to manage and clearly articulate demand planning and delivery against the projected backlog and book of work.
• Design and develop automation, self service and deployment frameworks in line with industry standard cloud patterns and practices.
• Identify and progress opportunities to drive continuous improvement across engineering, delivery, and operational practices.
• Support stakeholders to adopt and leverage the latest Cloud Native Application Architecture patterns, delivering scalable, resilient, and performant solutions. Acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, be able to provide regular progress updates and flag any issues accordingly.
• Ensure all architecture and Cloud infrastructure accommodates the latest security and software lifecycle patterns.

• Understanding of either Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure and Cloud Native Architectures is essential. A Cloud Certification in either Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure is desirable, but not essential.
• Experience of managing Operating Systems (Windows and/or Linux).
• Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of operational support procedures.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and the ability to write software in at least one general purpose programming or scripting language (Python, Go, Bash, Powershell).
• Experience and knowledge of Infrastructure as Code i.e. Terraform or of Configuration Management i.e. Ansible/Puppet and exposure to common CI/CD solutions and tools such as GitHub, Gitlab, or Azure DevOps.

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact or 0 to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.