Cloud Engineering Manager

Cloud Engineering Manager
Epsom, Surrey
Financial Services
Hybrid Working
£70k - £80k + Benefits

I am recruiting for a Cloud Engineering Manager on behalf of my financial services client based in Epsom, Surrey.

As a Cloud Engineering Manager you will work in team 5 and will have x3 direct reports.

As a Cloud Engineering Manager you will be an experienced hands on engineer with strong Azure design skills, along with AZ-104, AZ-305 certifications.

Cloud Engineering Manager Responsibilities:

• Deployment and configuration of cloud services
• Ongoing configuration and maintenance of Azure cloud services
• Produce configuration design documentation (LLD) for proposed solutions
• Azure tenancy administration
• Implementation of cloud security infrastructure and defined security policy
• Migration of legacy systems to Azure cloud platform
• SQL Database Infrastructure administration on-prem and cloud deployments
• Azure capacity planning and Disaster Recovery
• Storage lifecycle management including blob, files SharePoint and OneDrive
• Backup strategy alignment, monitoring, escalation, resolution and MI
• In conjunction with the Service Desk, ensure CMDB artifacts are maintained and accurate and all resources are included.
• Providing support to the Service Desk for Infrastructure incidents and escalations
• Support Solution Architecture Team
• Develop and maintain operating and costing MI for management
• Deployment and maintenance of infrastructure monitoring tools into security and operational monitoring platforms
• Maintain Infrastructure diagrams
• In conjunction with the change manager ensure changes and maintenance windows are effectively enacted
• Maintain transitional legacy physical and virtual infrastructure assets (Server & Networking)
• Team management via work allocation, regular meetings, conduct performance reviews measuring performance against agreed objectives and mentoring team members.
• Establish & maintain policy and procedural documentation

Cloud Engineering Manager Key Skills & Experience:

• Previous experience working in a regulated environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Pro-active, detail focused, can-do attitude
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Low level Azure cloud design & solutioning
• People management and development
• Cloud networking and desire to develop skill set
• Cloud monitoring tools
• Platform security, DLP & MFA
• Good hands-on experience of Microsoft technology and terminology
• Working knowledge of AWS
• VDI platforms (e.g. Azure Virtual Desktop, VMware ESX and Horizon VDI Platforms)
• Veeam Experience (Backup & Replication, Back up for Azure, Backup for Microsoft 365 & Data Cloud Vault)
• Azure Administration experience & certifications
• Azure ASR and Disaster recovery testing
• Azure Networking & Firewalls.
• Microsoft 365 Enterprise including Exchange Online and SharePoint Online
• Windows Server deployment and maintenance (Windows Server Administration certification)

Cloud Engineering Manager Desirable Skills:

• Infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, Arm, Azure DevOps)
• Cloud security infrastructure and defined policy
• SQL Server Administration
• Pluralsight skills/sandbox environment

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