As our Cloud Platform Engineering Manager you'll be responsible for architecting and managing the AWS-based cloud platform at Net Natives. This role requires a hands-on technical leader with a deep understanding of cloud technologies, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to drive innovation. This is a true DevOps role where you will be leading a dynamic team of software developers who build and support our key platform Akero.

Reporting into the CTPO you will be responsible for ensuring our platform is secure, scalable, monitored, has robust DR and the team has access to support to the right cloud tools to continue our journey.

You will be responsible for managing the engineers that oversee the development of the product including full stack and front end developers.

Day to day you will be responsible for…

Infrastructure Accountability:

Be accountable for our Cloud infrastructure to ensure that our product remains online, is secure, and backed up.
Design, implement, and maintain automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management on AWS using Cloudformation.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):

Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software deployments, ensuring a streamlined and efficient release process.

Monitoring and Alerting:

Set up and manage monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address issues in real-time, using tools like NewRelic, CloudWatch, or similar solutions.

Security:

Review and maintain platforms to ensure they are running on the latest versions of software to maintain their security.
Review the overall security footprint of the AWS environment, and report to the CTPO areas of concern and take remedial action to ensure our environments remain secure.

Scalability:

Evaluate and optimise the scalability of our infrastructure to handle increasing traffic and demand, especially during peak enrollment periods.

Backup and Disaster Recovery:

Implement and maintain robust backup and disaster recovery plans to ensure data integrity and availability.

Collaboration:

Work closely with software developers to streamline the deployment process, ensuring that code changes are released smoothly and efficiently.

Documentation:

Maintain detailed documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes, and best practices for team reference.

Technical Support:

Provide technical support and troubleshooting assistance to resolve infrastructure-related issues promptly.

Cost Optimization

Own the cost optimization of our cloud infrastructure and use the report mechanisms so suggest reservations, saving plans or other instruments to ensure we’re optimising our costs.
Review server types and usage to ensure that we are operating on the right infrastructure for the load usage.

Line Management

Act as the line manager for the senior developers to ensure we have a consistent cloud architecture, and they are supported in their growth and utilisation of cloud technologies.

Stay Current:

Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to recommend improvements and enhancements to our infrastructure.

You’ll live our values, to be accountable for your own tasks, to be brave and try new things and to be curious, staying up to date with industry updates and the latest developments. All the while working in a team that is recognised as one of the most supportive in the industry.

Sounds good? Great, here’s what we need from you...

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
At least two years of commercial experience having accountability for an AWS production environment.
Proven experience of using AWS services such as ECR, ECS, ElasticBeanstalk.
Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer(SRE), Infrastructure Engineer, or similar role.
Proven ability to architect solutions, taking DevOps concepts and AWS services and combining to achieve the end goal that we want to achieve as a team.
Strong proficiency in automation and scripting using tools like CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform, or similar technologies.
Able to write in JavaScript, understand and debug node applications.
Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
Proven experience of AWS networking (VPC’s), load balancers and other tools to provide a secure solution
Knowledge of the AWS Well Architected Framework
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
Security awareness and experience implementing security best practices.
Experience with Docker

Desirable

Experience with Google Cloud.
Experience with MongoDB and BigQuery.

Our culture is based on our simple ABC values (Accountable, Brave, Curious). We are accountable to providing you with the best working environment we possibly can.

Our enhanced benefits package has been designed with our people in mind. We have focused on seeing and hearing what our global employees want. Here are some of our fantastic benefits.

3 days off for Christmas shut down
Buy additional holidays or Family and Dependent Days
No one should work on their birthday… have a paid day off!
Contribution towards your home workstation setup
Private Healthcare
Pension scheme
EAP - Employee Assistance Programme
Eye Tests and contribution towards glasses
Self-Care Fund
Access to our Employee Engagement Platform which provides Rewards and Recognition, Benefits, Discounts, and Concierge Service
Employee Referral Bonus
Regularly staff entertaining, gifts and awards
Early finish on Fridays
Cycle To Work Scheme
Electric Vehicle Leasing - Salary sacrifice scheme
Time off for Charity / Volunteering work
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity or Adoption Pay and Maternity ‘Self Care Days’

Plus we know that your personal development is fundamental to our mission and so we tailor a progression path personalised to you.

Net Natives is an equal opportunities employer. We passionately believe that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and our DEI group is continually looking at ways we can encourage every Natives to be brave in their expression and belief in themselves.

Location:Remote, but commutable to Brighton/South Coast/Portsmouth

Salary:£50,000 - £70,000

Our hiring process is pretty simple...

You found this job because you are looking for a new and exciting opportunity or got sent this job ad because someone thinks you’re amazing and really cares about you
You’ve made it this far into the job advert and you know you want to find out more so you tell us you're interested (apply - send a cover letter and up to date CV)
You have been invited for an interview - we like to start with a call with CPTO. Then further interviews with our Senior Developers. You will be required to do an interview task to check your knowledge of AWS and DevOps.
You come in and meet some of your new team/friends (virtual or face to face)
If you are successful, you land yourself an amazing job and amazing things start to happen!

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