Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

**Role**

This senior developer role will deliver cloud native data solutions by:

- Developing CI/CD pipelines and IaC
- Carrying out detailed design
- Helping assure best practices, standards and code quality

It will enable projects to deliver cloud native solutions, and support driving cloud innovation across Arup.

The senior cloud infrastructure engineer role sits within the Digital Hub and Data Infrastructure Team, reporting to the ADIS Cloud and Data Platform Lead. The role will work closely with colleagues in data science, data engineering, product management, software development, automation, Digital Technology Group (corporate IT) and other business groups. The tools, practices, and culture we put in place will have an impact across the company, globally.

**Requirements and skills**

You know that adoption of cloud computing is as much about ways of working as it is about the technology, and have demonstrable experience of leading and mentoring others on this journey. You will bring technical excellence and a passion for building and operating scalable, secure, distributed systems, and automating these wherever possible. You listen actively and engage effectively to bring others along with you.

**Essential Skills and Knowledge**:

- Senior developer level experience of developing CI/CD pipelines and IaC for cloud based data and microservice solutions within the following technical environment:

- Cloud - AWS is essential, additional cloud vendors (Azure) would be beneficial.
- Technologies - a number of the following: Lambda, Fargate, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Kaftka, MQ, SQS, API Gateway, S3, MWAA (airflow), Kinesis, Data Lake, Redshift, Athena, Power BI, Data Factory, Synapse, Sage Maker.
- CI/CD - Azure DevOps or equivalent CI/CD, Terraform, ECR, Git, Jira
- Containers - Docker, Packer, Kubernetes (Desirable), Helm
- Cloud network and connectivity - VPC, VPN, Routing, DNS
- Experience of Python development (or equivalent) for cloud infrastructure automation tasks.
- Experience of developing secure cloud environments, including concepts such as load-balancing and autoscaling.
- Experience of developing, deploying and managing containerised services, and configuring and managing Kubernetes and/or serverless container environments and associated ecosystems/tools.
- Experience of deploying and managing microservice architectures and environments.
- Experience building solutions integrating with corporate IT systems, such as monitoring security and support.
- Experience of providing guidance and input to cloud infrastructure engineers.
- Experience of helping establish consistent development approaches and reuse (coding standards, naming conventions, componentization).
- Experience of working within agile delivery methodologies (Scrum) and test-driven development.
- Experience of Linux based systems
- Experience of working within distributed teams.
- Ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience and share technical knowledge and support colleagues.

**Desirable skills and knowledge**:

- Experience of working within a product-centric environment and user-centred design principles.
- Experience of delivering cloud engineering for data intensive environments
- Understanding of “Spotify Engineering Culture” and chapters in cross-functional teams.
- Experience developing CI/CD pipelines for big data analytics frameworks, IOT message frameworks, distributed databases, and their PaaS equivalents in the cloud.
- Background in “Architecture, Engineering and Construction” or a strong interest and desire to create market-leading propositions for this market.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelors degree in a numerate discipline.

**Reward and Benefits**:
We offer a competitive salary at all levels, and one of the best benefits packages in our sector. Core benefits include cover under the UK Healthcare Plan (private medical insurance), Life Assurance, Accident Insurance, and Income Protection (long term disability) cover. Core benefits are funded by us and made available to all permanent staff in order to support and safeguard your financial, physical, and mental wellbeing. You will also have access to Choice Benefits to help with your work/life balance and financial security. In addition, all permanent employees are eligible for the Global Profit Share scheme. Subject to scheme rules employees can receive two Profit Share payments per year, which are dependent on the firm’s financial performance.

Shape your time with us

Our goal is to shape a better world. And to do that, we need to make Arup a phenomenal place to work for everyone. If we want to solve problems for people around the world, we must seek and attract the best people from the widest talent pool and create an environment that supports and includes them. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their contribution. This includes people with disabilities, so please discuss