Infrastructure Engineer - #2078405

Infrastructure Engineer | 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Hybrid, Edinburgh| Starting ASAP

Day Rate: £DOE

About the Role:

- Work closely with business colleagues, suppliers, and managed service providers to support delivery of the design, implementation and ongoing maintenance of critical cloud services. This should include cloud expertise, including key IaaS, PaaS and SaaS technologies such as IAM, Networking, Storage, Compute and Governance, particularly for Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
- Day to day operation, monitoring and management of the Oracle and Azure cloud environments, ensuring quick and effective deployments using Infrastructure as Code
- Lead and enhance Cloud Security operations, including but not limited to identity and access management, vulnerability management, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
- Initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems and determine future preventative measures.
- Use information security practices and available security controls to contribute to protecting solutions and services.
- Design, Build, Configure, Implement, Administer and Support infrastructure solutions and services, for example, networking and physical infrastructure, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software, open-source packages and solutions, or virtual and cloud computing.
- Use information security practices and available security controls to contribute to protecting solutions and services.
- Review systems designs to ensure the security and compliance of the design, the selection of appropriate technology, the efficient use of resources, and the integration of multiple systems.
- Take ownership of issues end to end, investigating problems across systems, processes and services; understanding whether issues are strategic, tactical or operational; and ensuring resolution, mitigation, or appropriate handover.

- Translate designs into delivery, producing logical and physical designs, creating detailed designs, and designing systems with managed risk, appropriate complexity, and meaningful business or technical impact.

- Support the shaping and implementation/ongoing establishment and maturing of IT Architecture Design/Review Boards and Governance within SPPA. Select and contribute to appropriate design standards, methods, and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively

- Contribute to continuous improvement, including implementing remedies and preventative measures, taking inputs from multiple sources, and establishing coherent, effective frameworks.

- Understand and apply modern development standards, explaining the key principles and applying them to your work.

- Apply core technical and testing skills, including executing test scripts, understanding the role of testing, documenting work using required standards and tools, and troubleshooting issues across multiple technology capabilities.

Essential Skills & Experience:

- An in-depth knowledge of MS Azure is critical to this role, as is knowledge of the wider Microsoft product suite and Linux. Oracle knowledge is also required. Knowledge of securely integrating MS Azure with other cloud platforms is highly desirable.
- Demonstrable experience managing and maintaining infrastructure systems in a structured environment.
- Experience implementing changes and updates to infrastructure systems, ensuring minimal disruption.
- Experience using and supporting scripting and software tools, in particular a knowledge of Python and MS DevOps platforms is required
- Experience of sitting on Change and Architecture Boards and/or present to them, to ensure compliant and secure services are developed in line with best practice and architectural principles
- A confident and clear communicator with high quality verbal and written communication skills
- Calm and courteous demeanour when faced with difficult/challenging circumstances
- Able to plan and deliver assigned responsibilities to quality and time without close ongoing support/supervision
- Able to thrive in situations where information is only partially available and requires to be gathered by discussion with other stakeholders
- Inquisitive, self-motivated, resilient and results-driven

Desirable Qualifications

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  * Information/Cyber Security Analyst/Senior Analyst knowledge
  

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.