Post Office Ltd Careers Near Me – Principal AWS In London

Overview

Position Title: Principal AWS

Company: Post Office Ltd
Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity to hire a Principal AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer who will be a critical member of the Cloud Platform Engineering Team. This new engineer is the first of a number of new Cloud roles we will be hiring for which will also include Cloud DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, Cloud Security Engineers, Cloud DevOps Engineers, and Data Architect/DBAs…

Responsibilities: 

• Serve as project lead or lead technical staff in course of an application development project
• Work with current application teams to understand current applications and make migration recommendations and to-be architectures in AWS as well as support ongoing migration strategy and effort
• Work with application and architecture teams to conduct proof of concept (POC) and implement the design in the production environment in AWS.
• Extensive understanding of the DevOps tooling landscape and has experience integrating various DevOps tools together to provide end to end application life cycle management
• Develop test protocols or plan for testing revised applications and review test results.
• Work closely with Architects and Data Engineers to recommend and design database or data storage solutions that effectively reflect our business needs, security, and service level requirements
• Participate and be an exemplar in the software development life cycle to ensure sound Cloud solutions are implemented.
• To be a DevOps expert, providing expertise on the DevOps services and provide objective recommendations on
• DevOps tooling recommendations based on development team requirements
• Mentor or Coach less experienced technical staff; may use high-end development
• Responsible for design, development, and implementation of Enterprise-wide critical Cloud solutions such as
• Cloud identity, Cloud ingress & egress, Cloud monitoring, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines, and Cloud cryptographic solutions.
• Serve as a thought leader in developing the team’s capabilities in support of the business that will simplify and automate the applications as well as make them more efficient.
• Providing advisory support to delivery programs including hands-on full-stack engineering development on projects, coaching, and helping delivery teams to adopt this as part of their development life cycle
• Participate and be an exemplar in planning, implementation, and growth of Post Office Cloud Platform
• foundational footprint in alignment with the technological vision and business strategy

Requirements: 

 

• Deep software architecture and programming skills
• Management of continuous integration servers like Jenkins, Bamboo, and TeamCity.
• Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments.
• Strong practical Linux- and Windows-based system administration skills in cloud or virtualization environments
• Proven success in automating in a complex real-world production environment.
• Extensive experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure.
• Experience with any monitoring tools like Cloudwatch, DataDog, etc.
• Experience with automated testing tools (i.e. Selenium, JMeter).
• Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure
• Proven experience in helping teams or programmes adopt configuration management tooling such as Chef,
• Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments with many nodes.
• Extensive experience with revision control source code repositories (Git, SVN, Mercurial, Perforce, etc.).
• Experience with IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling.
• Deep understanding and Implementation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA and REST).
• Deep understanding and experience with code deployment (tagging).
• Extensive experience with configuration management toolings such as Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments with many nodes.
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
• Significant experience in working within a Cloud-based environment with a proven track record of delivering successful enterprise solutions.
• Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management
• Strong scripting skills, i.e., Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.