Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundation of our Leidos culture is our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission.

Inspired to make a difference, we are committed to solving the world’s toughest problems.

Passionate about customer success by being determined to understand and respond to our customers’ needs as if they were our own.

United as a team, we are bound together by our conviction that ethics and integrity is core to how we operate.

This is a mobile role and, hence, may be required to work for short periods in any location in the UK as proposal or programme requires.

Pre-existing security clearance may be beneficial but is not a requirement.

The preferred candidate will demonstrate effective application of Infrastructure & Cloud expertise and extensive knowledge across a variety of technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud Platforms, Microsoft Windows Server Environments, Virtualized Environments, Microsoft Stack Technologies, Networking Technologies and Data Storage Technologies.  A keen interest or experience in supporting environments operating under DevOps methodologies would be advantageous.

Your passions and experience will help you become a technical specialist and process owner for our business, including service improvements, and add further value to our service offerings. You will be expected to contribute towards the creation and ongoing maintenance of technical documentation and provide material to support the Project work or the Operational Support service.

Must-have skills/experience:

• Azure building infrastructures by integrating cloud native services with third party products
• Experience of DevOps concepts and experience of deploying CI/CD pipelines using cloud native and third party tools
• Strong understanding of containers (Docker or similar) and container orchestration (Kubernetes – including cloud managed Kubernetes services)
• Public Sector experience in cloud deployment or migration
• Experience of using the Atlassian suite of tools (JIRA, Confluence)
• Experience of planning or delivering cloud migration or transformation projects in both green field and brownfield environments
• Experience of Window Server (and associated services DNS, DHCP, GPO, etc) and Linux OS
• Strong appreciation of security best practices

Desirable skills/experience:

• Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban)
• AWS or Google Cloud experience
• Traditional Infrastructure and networking experience
• Software Defined Networking Experience

Cert such as:

• AWS Certified Architect Associate
• MS Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• MS Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Associate