Cloud Platform – Unite Students Careers Manchester

Overview

Position Title: Cloud Platform

Company: Unite Students

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Description

Fast Paced. Innovative. Curious. Inspiring. Inclusive. Providing a home for 74,000 students in more than 170 buildings, the success of our customers, colleagues and partnerships are the measure of our work; we take our goals seriously, knocking them out of the park whilst having fun and helping each other grow. Prop-tech is an exciting sector and youll be part of a team that is redefining the end-to-end experience for our customers and introducing new ways to add value through products, technology and data. Our ambition is to run the best platforms and experiences in the sector and were investing in people and technology. Building an inclusive team that is diverse is essential- it`s what makes us, uS. We`re passionate about building a team that respects, celebrates, and thrives from, the different experiences diversity of thought can bring. Whether you`re interested in Marketing, Digital, CRM, Property Maintenance, Robotics and Automation, DevOps, Cloud and Data Engineering, Smart Building and IOT – or all of it! – there`s a place for you in our Technology Team. We`re here to make a difference across the board.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure services to supplement the skills in the engineering teams. This could be prototyping how a newly released service, providing value or working with the team to troubleshoot how a service is behaving.
• Implement automation leveraging DevOps best practices.
• Support architects to make design choices that will scale and be easy to operate within Cloud services, and provide guidance on security/performance/operational constraints.
• Identify shortfalls and streamline delivery, increase agility through the adoption of increased automation and monitoring.
• Provide technical guidance and support for business projects.
• Use your technical expertise to demonstrate best practice to colleagues through the delivery of high-quality technical work.
• BAU support of existing systems and support requests.
• Achieve SLA adherence on infrastructure hosted systems.

Requirements:

• Multi Cloud Platform administration experience which could include Azure, AWS.
• Experience in some of the following technologies; Azure DevOps, AKS, PowerShell, Python, LogicMonitor, VMware, Veeam, Office 365.
• Experience of scripting and Automation through IaaS/PaaS/IaC pipelines.
• Experience in configuration management tooling, such as Terraform/Ansible.
• Experience of working within an Agile framework/team.
• Evidence of vocational certifications in current Cloud enterprise technologies is desirable (e.g. MS AZ-400 Exam)
• Experience of working in an Agile/DevOps environment.
• Insatiable appetite for learning new platforms, scripting and automation technologies.
• Experience of CI/CD tooling and Container Orchestration frameworks is highly desirable.
• Experience of ServiceNow & SalesForce desirable.