We are seeking A Professional Services Consulting Engineer to deliver Cloud Engineering consulting services into Rackspace’s Enterprise and SME clients. The ideal candidate will have strong, hands on technical skills, with the experience and consulting skills to understand, shape and deliver against our customers’ requirements.
On a day to day basis, you will be working on:
Execution of Cloud engineering tasks within migration sprint cycles aligned to best practices and templates within a customer project team.Build out of new customer cloud solutions using cloud native components.Usage of cloud foundational architecture and components to build out automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines and supporting services frameworksHigh and low level design workEscalation to appropriate task manager of inappropriate work task requests or requirements
Pre-requisites
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on cloud experience.
- Experience building cloud automation, including CD/CI pipelines using technologies equivalent to Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker. Experience in these specific technologies is desirable
- Network experience, aware of cloud network patterns such as VPC, network interconnect, subnets, peering, firewalls, etc...
- Experience of SIEM Administration including the capture and processing of logs and processes.
- Maintains an in-depth knowledge of cloud related technologies, and can articulate best practice approaches and practices
- Experience collaborating with developers and platform engineers, and continuously optimising infrastructure to remove bottlenecks and improve automation.
- Skills in Go, NodeJS and/or Python preferable
- Ideally have a degree in a technology field or equivalent industry experience
- Willing to travel up to 75% of the time, should it be necessary
- Strong communication skills, customer facing experience desirable