Cloud Infrastructure Lead

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Cloud Infrastructure Lead

Location: London

Salary: £75,000 to £80,000 + bonus + on-call (£3,500+) per annum

About the company

Our client is a well-established financial services firm based in Central London.

They have over 1200 staff across 2 main offices, with 8 people in their IT Infrastructure team.

Position Overview

You will be working across a traditional infrastructure and the ground-breaking potential of AI and automation.

With the majority of our infrastructure in Azure and a small part still on-premise, this role is mostly hands-on (75%), complemented by 25% focused on design, policy, process, and documentation.

You will play a crucial role in the organisation's transformation, blending technological advancements with strategic insight to enhance our infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Undertake analysis of technical infrastructure issues, opportunities and requirements, translating these into technical designs that describe a solution and building these into the future design patterns.
• Deputise for the Head of Infrastructure and act as a technical authority
• Identifying and remediating complex infrastructure issues
• Act as a technical authority on the design and specification of standardised cloud resources and related automation solutions, to reduce or eliminate manual or repetitive tasks, improve end-to-end infrastructure health and system performance
• Continuously improve the organisation's overall infrastructure architecture, ensuring that it is engineered to facilitate development, automation, reuse and consistency across the technology estate
• Design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions that are secure by design, implement policies that ensure cloud infrastructure solutions remain secure, including identity and access management, patching and disaster recovery.
• Support and design and implementation of processes and controls that assure maximum uptime and quick service to stakeholders for both physical and cloud-based workloads

Candidate Requirements

Essential Skills and personal qualities

• Office 365/Azure
• Extensive experience of infrastructure within a DevOps environment
• Strong IaC Skills preferably on Terraform
• Strong PowerShell skills
• Strong Automation skills
• Palo Alto and Meraki experience
• Strong and demonstrable experience of physical infrastructure technologies, including IP based networks, WAN technologies, virtualisation, DHCP/DNS and SAN/NAS storage
• Experience with Linux OS's and Bash scripting

Apply now to Just IT and we will review your application.

If you are suitable for the role, we will be in contact to discuss this opportunity.