Business Insider is hiring a Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team dedicated to building and supporting scalable, secure and resilient infrastructure in AWS and other cloud providers.
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Our Cloud Engineering team is one of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
The Role & Team:
As Staff Cloud Engineer, you will lead architecture design, implementation, and optimization of our cloud infrastructure, playing a pivotal role in the ongoing success of our tech teams, our writers and editors and the readership of the largest business news site in the world.
As Staff Cloud Engineer, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and optimisation of our cloud infrastructure, playing a pivotal role in the ongoing success of our tech teams, our writers and editors and the readership of the largest business news site in the world.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the effectiveness of our DevOps culture, troubleshoot application and system issues and add minimal complexity to monitor, deploy and scale our continuously growing environment.
This role reports directly to the Director of Cloud Engineering and sits on the Cloud Engineering Team. This role will be based in Belfast and offers an in office or work from home / hybrid opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Working with stakeholders and contributing to technical strategy to help deliver complex technical projects. Can architect, articulate and execute on a complete and complex technical vision against organisational goals with great skill.
2. Design and implement the architecture for best in class solutions for our cloud platform, building scalable and secure solutions on AWS.
3. Providing technical leadership and mentorship for other team members.
4. Managing and enhancing our global AWS services and infrastructure, adhering to security best practices.
5. Working closely with cross-functional teams to foster an effective DevOps culture.
6. Troubleshooting application and system issues in collaboration with feature team engineers, communicating status to the broader team.
7. Implementing minimal complexity to monitor, deploy, and scale a continuously growing environment.
The Ideal Candidate Has:
8. Experience in mentoring and providing technical leadership for a team.
9. Demonstrable knowledge of building and supporting cloud applications at scale.
10. A positive attitude and ability to contribute effectively to discussions.
11. Professional experience with AWS and Elastic Kubernetes Service.
12. A high degree of comfort in deploying cloud native applications using Terraform and Kubernetes and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies.
13. Proficiency in coding in a modern programming language.
14. Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.
Salary & Benefits
15. Market Leading Salary (dependent on skills, experience, and competencies)
16. Hybrid flexible working - our amazing City Centre office or your home, the choice is yours.*(Candidates must reside permanently in Northern Ireland)
17. 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
18. Unrivaled culture and working environment with regular socials and company events
19. Private Medical Insurance
20. Health cash plan
21. Life assurance
22. Employee assistance program
23. Highly competitive family leave policies and access to our family benefits platform, Maven, offering support for employee preconception, pregnancy & postpartum
Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don’t have 100% of the experience we’re looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to the Insider community.
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