Cloud Platform Engineer (Site Reliability and Observability)
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Arden UniversityHigher education
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United KingdomFull-Time
Salary60,000 - 72,000 GBP per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- Substantial experience building, supporting and improving production cloud infrastructure and platform services.
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonBashGCPGitKubernetesMicrosoft AzureCI/CDTerraform
Requirements
- Bring substantial experience building, supporting and improving production cloud infrastructure and platform services across AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
- Have practical experience operating Kubernetes or equivalent container platforms, including deployments, networking, storage, workload health and troubleshooting.
- Have strong Terraform skills, including reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, and experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Have experience delivering controlled, versioned and peer-reviewed infrastructure changes.
- Be proficient in Bash or Python automation and have practical knowledge of Linux, IP networking, DNS, identity and access management, secrets management and least-privilege security.
- Have experience implementing observability through metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, actionable alerting and service-health reporting.
- Understand SRE practices, including service-level indicators and objectives (SLIs/SLOs), availability, capacity planning and reducing recurring failures.
- Have experience investigating production incidents, conducting root-cause analysis and implementing preventative measures or automated remediation.
- Have experience with backup and restore, disaster recovery and resilience testing, including validating recovery procedures.
- Have experience developing operational runbooks and following service management and support processes.
- Relevant AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes or SRE certifications are desirable.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki or equivalent observability tools is desirable.
- Desirable experience includes cloud cost optimisation, cloud landing zones, developer self-service, policy-as-code, Kubernetes cluster operations, or operational support for production data, integration or AI platforms.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate cloud platforms that underpin digital services across AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
- Deliver secure, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure.
- Strengthen infrastructure automation and improve tools and capabilities for engineering teams.
- Develop monitoring, alerting and service-health reporting to improve observability.
- Improve incident response and turn operational insights into practical improvements.
- Validate backup, restore and recovery processes and automate repetitive operational tasks.
- Work with cloud engineering, security, service management and application teams to build reliability and shared ownership.
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