Senior Cloud Engineer – 15028

Knowledge

The post holder will be expected to perform at SFIA Level 5 (“ensure / advise”).

• Fully familiar with recognised industry bodies of knowledge both generic and specific, and knowledge of the business, suppliers, partners, competitors and clients.
• Develops a wider breadth of knowledge across the industry or business and applies knowledge to help define the standards which others will apply.
• Ideally educated to bachelor degree level and/or holds a relevant professional qualification (e.g., AWS certification), although consideration will be given to those applicants without these qualifications, but who can demonstrate they have worked at a similar level.

Core Skills

Cloud Engineering (Level 5)

• Adopts and adapts appropriate cloud computing design methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan‑driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches, and ensures they are applied effectively.
• Designs large or complex cloud‑based service solutions, undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade‑offs, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
• Reviews others’ cloud‑based service designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple cloud providers and technology.
• Ensures that the cloud‑based service design balances functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Contributes to development of service design policies and standards and selection of architecture components and building blocks.
• Plans and directs migration of IT services from traditional infrastructure to cloud‑computing based infrastructures and/or services.

Programming / Software Development (Level 5)

• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
• Plans and drives software construction activities, adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

Systems Integration & Build (Level 5)

• Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration.
• Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework, providing authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration.
• Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design, assesses risks and takes preventative action, measures and monitors applications of standards.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.

Network Design (Level 5)

• Produces, or approves, network providers’, network architectures, topologies and configuration databases for their own area of responsibility.
• Specifies design parameters for network connectivity, capacity, speed, interfacing, security and access, in line with business requirements.
• Assesses network‑related risks and specifies recovery routines and contingency procedures.
• Creates multiple design views to address different stakeholders’ concerns and to handle both functional and non‑functional requirements.

Requirements

• Clearance: DBS required.

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