Senior Cloud Engineer / Architect (Azure)

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Senior Cloud Engineer Architect (Azure)

PremFina Ltd is a fast growing; venture capital backed premium finance company that promotes financial inclusion by enabling the payment of insurance premiums via instalments. Based in Mayfair, London, it supplies insurance brokers with funding lines and also enables self-funding by insurance brokers and MGAs via its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) affiliate IXL PremFina Ltd. PremFina’s shareholders include global investors Rakuten Capital, Draper Esprit Plc, Thomvest Ventures, Emery Capital, Rubicon Venture Capital, Talis Capital and the company’s founder.

PremFina is looking to hire an experienced Azure cloud engineer to fit into the existing IT team and bolster the development and testing side of PremFina’s software application along with new digital projects in the cloud. The role isn’t necessarily about getting an experienced cloud engineer with several years of cloud experiences. It is about candidates who are keen to be innovate, be agile, adapt and have modern cloud technology skillset experiences.

The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of Azure, cloud infrastructure and IT operations alongside commercial experience working with Kubernetes and other containers.

Within this role you will primarily be involved with the design and development of infrastructure or application components within a highly agile team.

Tech Stack

Essential

                               Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud, SQL, Cloud Storage, Azure Backup, Azure Portal, Azure Active Directory. Prior

commercial experience in designing and operating cloud systems design, specifically Azure.

                               PowerShell scripting

                               Experience working with continuous integration platforms, IaaS and PaaS technologies.

                               A strong technical and architecture background

                               Experience in the configuration, management, and troubleshooting of Azure Storage / Networking / Database

                               A working understanding/knowledge of traffic managers, Load balancers and Load balancing methodology.

                               Working knowledge of Backup and Recovery

                               Configuration of Backup, Patching and Monitoring of servers and services.

                               In depth knowledge of configuring and managing Linux and Windows environments

                               Demonstrates an advanced understanding of directory services (AD and LDAP)

                               Demonstrates an understanding of Networking (NSGs, Firewalls, VNets, VPNs, Gateways, Routing, VLAN)

                               Expertise in infrastructure as a service and operations technologies such as Terraform, Serverless, Azure Monitor, Docker, Kubernetes,

Cloud functions, and scalable messaging systems (Rabbit, ActiveMQ, Kafka), GPU computing in the cloud.

                               Automation and integrating

                               Experience managing continuous integration services such as (TeamCity, Gitlab or Jenkins)

                               Experience in designing and implementing scalable secure cloud-based solutions

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will be working closely alongside developers, designers, project managers, Analysts and tech leads where you will ultimately be responsible for cloud infrastructure, along with continuous build, test and deployment processes within the IT management.

                               You will be will be working in an agile way to help ensure the environments /cloud infrastructure are built to an efficient way whilst keeping to best practices for deployments.

Nice to Have Experience of

                               Cloud Solution Architect certification (Azure AWS GCP)

                               Programming experience (Java, Go, Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)

                               Proven Experience of microservices and container-based systems (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

                               Linux (Preferably) and/or Windows sysadmin certification

                               Experience of agile project management approaches and tools (e.g. Atlassian Jira/Confluence)

                               ITIL experience

                               Experience with Oracle Database DB Admin

                               Familiarity with open source cloud and application platforms

                               Understanding of other public cloud services (AWS, GCP)Ideally the successful applicant will possess the below skills and

experience:

                               Be Agile - Happy to adapt and change according to changing requirements as expected in a growing start-up organization

                               Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written, are essential

                               Willingness to serve clients and be empathetic to their needs

                               High attention to detail and a keen emphasis on accuracy

                               Ability to work to deadlines, along with the flexibility to manage changing priorities and the ability to multi-task

                               Proven ability to sustain high level of performance under pressure and remain focused

                               Ability to self-motivate, self-manage and work both autonomously and as part of a team

                               Experience and passion for finding solutions to problems that haven’t been solved before.

                               Feels passionately about quality and takes pride in their work.

                               Believes in validation through software and rapid prototyping.

                               Fluent in English (verbal and written) and loves to work, learn, and teach others.?Driven and self-reliant, without losing

track of the "big

picture".

                               Team-first outlook including building great working relationships with peers across functions

                               Support the success and development of others in the team

When applying for this role, please email with your CV and quote "Senior Cloud Engineer/Architect" in the subject line of your email application.