Cloud Engineer

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The role-holder leads the building, maintenance and support via continual improvement mechanisms, the cost-effective technical & cloud-based infrastructure to support the Commissions objectives. Leading on implementing sufficient Cloud environments to support Development, Testing, and Support activities as well as live operations and the ability to successfully implement projects and solutions in a rapid and consistent manner.Client DetailsThe Charity Commission has set out their ambitious five-year strategy, being clear that they will be driven by their purpose to ensure that charity can thrive and inspire trust so that people can improve lives and strengthen society. Their purpose is bold, confident and so is their proud commitment to represent the public interest.The Charity Commission regulates 170,000 charities across England and Wales ensuring that they work within a legal framework , giving the public confidence that the £75bn spent by charities each year is put to good use.DescriptionResponsible for maintaining and continually improving the performance, capacity, availability, continuity and integrity of the Commission's Server and Cloud infrastructure in-line with agreed SLA. These services are a combination of internally provisioned services, cloud hosted services and services from 3rd party suppliers.Leading on the technical design solutions for timely maintenance of systems, hardware/firmware/software and the review of security practices including the patching and update of all desktop, network, server components and the firmware of any hardware, ensuring that patches are impact assessed prior to deployment and testing. Leading on Cloud technology design, implementation and maintenance for Microsoft Azure technologies Leading on Cloud solution budget forecasting and optimisation Leading on Cloud based security controls for Microsoft Azure Collaborating with teams (App Support (DevOps), Software Development, Software Testing, Service Delivery) to ensure their requirements for sufficient environments are delivered in a timely manner. Plan which adheres to the IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM) process Undertaking ITIL based Incident, Problem and Change processes ProfileLead project architecture and design Lead project planning and implementationStrong third-party relationship and experienceAbility to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholdersDesign build and management of Azure based cloud services to include IaaS, PaaS and SaaS implementation. Building and maintaining significant multi-environment corporate Azure tenant. Proven experience in managing and implementing Exchange Online/Office 365 Microsoft SQL Server Management - provisioning, performance and capacity managementProven experience in the provision of 3rd level technical support to a Microsoft Windows computing environment. Leads Building, provisioning, maintaining and supporting Microsoft Windows server covering at least two of the following: Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2012R2 & Windows server 2016 Operating Systems. Experience of Active DirectoryIP Networking and Routing including DHCP, DNS and the ability to troubleshooting IP networking issuesITIL based Incident, Problem and Change Mgmt.Detailed working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Online/Office 365 and Office 365 SaaS and Windows 10 technologiesDetailed working knowledge of Cloud hosted technologies preferably Microsoft Azure. Detailed knowledge in the deployment and management of Microsoft Azure Cloud platformsDetailed working knowledge of Microsoft Cloud Azure Firewalls, Azure Gateway, Azure NSG's and VNets Detailed knowledge of Cloud security controls such as Azure permissions, security monitoring, identity management, key vaults and SPN'sJob Offer£40,000 salaryCivil Service pensionGenerous annual leave allowanceEmployee assistance programmeInterest free season ticket and bicycle loan after 2 months employmentSpecial retail discounts and offers through membership of staff Perkbox schemeFlexible and family friendly working environmentLearning and career developmentSelection process: Candidates will be sifted on their CVs and experience against the job description. And at interview assessed on the following Civil Service Behaviours: Seeing the big pictureChanging & ImprovingMaking Effective DecisionsLeadershipCommunicating and InfluencingWorking togetherDeveloping Self and OthersManaging a quality serviceDelivering at PaceThe full list of Civil Service behaviours at various levels can be found here:assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717275/CS_Behaviours_2018.pdfSecurity Clearance: This role will require you to go through baseline security clearance. Please request further info if required.* CLOSING DATE: Sunday 6th February 11:55pm *