Senior Engineer, Cloud & Container Infra

Be a Part of Something BIG! 

The Senior Engineer, Cloud & Container Infrastructure will be responsible for the design, engineering, and operations of the on-premises private cloud platform, with a primary focus on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Containerization, with secondary expertise in VMware, Nutanix and HyperV. 

Make an Impact by: 

• Design, Implement and maintain Openshift Virtualization and Container infrastructure in covering on-premises datacentres. Support also VMware, Nutanix or HyperV platforms 


• Drive Process, Quality, Productivity and Security improvements within the domain 


• Works with other technology groups in resolving production issues, including security related issues 


• Responsible for capacity planning of Compute infrastructure, including licensing and vendor support related engagements. Also includes obsolescence management 


• Work with Change Management to propose and implement changes, especially for patching and migrations. 


• Works with other groups to implement new builds 


• Ensure solution proposed in compliance with security and best practices adopted by the industry  


• Document and communicate Enterprise Infrastructure strategies and standards 


• Ensure solution compliance and integration with enterprise architecture and Infosec policy for Infrastructure and Security systems by reviewing and advising on new and existing Information Technology projects 


• Providing advice and guidance to management during planning phases to ensure that non-functional requirements are included in the overall specifications 


• Providing advice and guidance to all areas of IT and Business Management, analysts, planners, designers and developers on all aspects of compute infrastructure, including build and operations policies 


• To ensure that work meets all related engineering, planning, and operational standards 


• Create and document the solution using the existing Infrastructure Standard Platforms and Design Patterns 


• Assist in ongoing efforts to automate the operations of the infrastructure 

Skills for Success: 

• Degree in Computer Science or any other equivalent.


• 10+ years of relevant experience in testing in an Agile environment (User Stories, why Acceptance Criteria are important)


• The key technical skills are based around business & technical platforms Quality engineering practices & automation in a cloud-based environment and CI/CD, so experience in a similar environment is essential and any experience with Performance and/or Load testing is highly desirable.


• Solid coding experience is essential.


• Exposure to Java Spring Boot development & test automation is also essential.


• Experience building automation testing frameworks for self-service, mission critical platforms.


• Cloud, k8s experience also necessary into AWS/Azure environment


• Chaos Engineering /Litmus Chaos - as optional / nice to have skillset.


• CastleMock/other mocking frameworks and QMetry exposure also needed