Cloud Platform Engineer

At City Electrical Factors, we encourage our people to ask questions, create, discover, and learn.

If you're passionate about what you do and think you can contribute, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement listed. Your unique experiences and perspectives could be exactly what we need to grow and innovate.

Let's build something great together!

About CEF:

CEF is a global electrical wholesaler, providing electrical products to people in the industry known for its extensive range of products and commitment to customer service. Founded in 1951 in the United Kingdom, it has since expanded to over 1,000 locations across multiple countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe.

We in IT are delivering value to our business and our customers with the innovative solutions that enable our business to better serve our customers today and in the future. We recognise that technology and data are at the forefront of this.

Our Global IT team deliver a portfolio of transformative work, expand our digital options, upgrade and future-proof our systems to place us at the forefront of the marketplace.

To do this, we need talented and creative people across all areas to join us in delivering our evolution to enable our forward-thinking business over the next few years and beyond, and this is where you come in...

Life as a Cloud Platform Engineer at CEF:

As a Cloud Platform Engineer at CityIT, you will be creating secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud environments using modern tooling and techniques in a serverless-first company.

This is a key role within our team, and you’ll be collaborating with almost every team in IT, while mentoring and supporting others by providing technical guidance, and helping them learn operational excellence and how to deliver complex solutions.

You’ll have a broad understanding of AWS services and how they interact with other tools and services. Alongside this, you’ll have an established background with cloud technology, or software engineering and infrastructure.

Your Objectives:

• Deliver cloud solutions with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools
• Analyse cloud platform needs and define technical specifications
• Support and maintain bespoke enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure
• Monitor cloud environments to ensure high availability and efficient performance
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Write, review, and assure technical documentation such as HLDs, LLDs, Runbooks and Playbooks
• Continually develop and improve your skill set to match the ever-changing technology landscape
• Promote and evolve Engineering Practice, proposing innovative solutions or alternative approaches to complex issues

Key Skills and Experience:

• Extensive AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud infrastructure/platform experience
• Demonstrable experience of Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as CDK and Terraform
• Proficient in a modern development language such as TypeScript or Python
• Experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Gitlab
• Experience with automated configuration management tools
• Knowledge of Cloud monitoring and logging tools
• Experience in containerisation
• An understanding of Cloud security models and best practices
• An understanding of Cloud design and architectural patterns such as Serverless and Microservices
• Experience of working within an Agile Team using Scrum / Kanban

Interview Process:

• Screening Call with Talent Acquisition (30 mins)
• Technical Interview over Microsoft Teams with one of our Cloud Engineering Team Lead and a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (60 mins)
• Culture and Values Interview over Microsoft Teams call with our Cloud Engineering Team Lead and Head of Infrastructure & Operations (60 mins)

Package:

• Competitive basic salary
• Annual IT Bonus scheme
• Our teams predominantly work remotely but we have an award-winning IT Headquarters based in Durham where you’ll always receive a warm welcome!
• Pension: 3% employee / 3% employer (Total 6%)
• Champion Health – a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life
• Free use of the state-of-the-art private gym at our IT Headquarters

Location

Our IT Team like to get together in the Durham office on occasion. This is optional and the role is predominantly home based however there may be some required travel to the Durham or Kenilworth office for team meetings and other events.