About this role
University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom) needs a Senior Engineer: Cloud Platform, working on-site. Filed under Cloud & DevOps, the job covers the usual ground for that area. The team works from Leeds, and this role is part of that office. The role is pitched at senior, so that is the experience band the employer has in mind. For the full picture, including how to apply, see the employer's description below.
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Job Overview
Job description provided by University of Leeds.
The University of Leeds is recruiting a Senior Engineer to help deliver its cloud platform capabilities within Professional Services.
You will use your understanding of cloud technologies and platform engineering to help create scalable, secure and reliable platforms for university teams.
The role involves provisioning and managing landing zones within architectural guardrails, using infrastructure as code to deploy cloud resources.
You will help ensure the Azure platform is built to best practice and industry standards, meets demand and performs well, securely and cost-efficiently.
Duties include responding to incidents and outages affecting cloud infrastructure, diagnosing root causes and restoring services quickly.
You will use Terraform and CI/CD practices to automate provisioning and orchestration, and help design self-service components such as Terraform modules and no-code provisioning.
High availability and disaster recovery solutions, fault-tolerant design, backup and restore procedures and failover mechanisms are also part of the work.
You will collaborate with software engineers, system administrators and security specialists, and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks and technical specifications.
Candidates need experience implementing and managing cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure, plus infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.