Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure
Recruiter
BP
Listed on
12th May 2021
Location
Sunbury-on-thames
Salary/Rate
Competitive
Salary Notes
Competitive
Type
Permanent
Start Date
ASAP
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Our innovation and engineering team is fuelled by the best minds and the most cutting-edge technologies. Here, we work together to solve energy's most complex puzzles. Like innovating to achieve our net zero ambition, building robots to keep our energy landscape safe, and digitising the entire way we work. As a member of our team, you can take the lead on data-driven projects, taking advantage of our extensive data lake to inspire your thinking. You could be building platforms and dashboards, or collaborating across functions to make everyone's lives simpler. And you'll do all this while carving out a career path that's right for you. Challenge your potential. Flex your mind. Imagine the impact you could have. BP has embarked on an ambitious plan to modernize and transform using digital technologies to drive efficiency, effective and new business models. You are a Senior Cloud Engineer, a senior member in the team providing custom-built or customized IT platforms for BP colleagues and external users. IT platforms generally support the hosting of applications which in turn, supports revenue-earning activity for BP, or directly provides business functionality in the same vein. Strong themes running throughout Platform Engineering include automation of manual activity, focus on operational integrity at scale, optimization of technical resources, and speed to value.You will work with the team to define the vision and maximize value from current technical platforms and emerging technologies, showing technical thought leadership. You will also collaborate with peers across teams within bp and mentor more junior platform engineers within the squads.
Leadership and EQ: You always empower people - encouraging positive team morale and ensuring that every team member with expertise has the power to make decisions, at the lowest possible level. You always get the basics right, from quality development conversations to recognition and ongoing performance feedback. You can develop, coach, mentor and inspire others. You comply with BP's Code of Conduct and ensure your team does too. You also demonstrate strong leadership of BP's Leadership Expectations and Values & Behaviours. You create an environment where people listen and can speak openly about the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that everyone can understand and learn. You embrace a culture of change and agility, evolving continuously, adapting to our changing world. You are an effective team player, naturally looking beyond your own area/organizational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and/or perspective of others, and building trust-based relationships with leaders and employees across Compute, I&E and the wider BP. You are self-aware and seek input from others on your impact and effectiveness. You apply judgment and common sense at scale - you use insight and good judgment to deliver commercially sound, efficient and pragmatic decisions and solutions and to respond to situations as they arise. Cultural fluency - you operate across cultural boundaries with sensitivity. As a BP Cloud Engineer, you should be comfortable with : Cloud Technologies & Associated Tooling DevOps & Agile Practices. Networking & Content Delivery VM, Load Balancers, Network related security across AWS and Azure. AWS - VPC, Gateways, EC2, S3, RDS / Migration & Transfer, Lambda, Router53, SQS, SNS and CloudWatch. Azure - Compute, Networking, Storage and Databases. Azure DevOps knowledge is beneficial. Backup and Disaster Recovery concepts. Concepts of Security, Identity and Compliance standards. Customer Engagement - You should be able to communicate effectively. Ansible, Terraform and CloudFormation knowledge is beneficial. Containers & container Orchestration knowledge is beneficial. Data and Analytics knowledge is beneficial. AI + Machine Learning, IoT knowledge is beneficial. Job Advert Some background...
Cloud Engineering Services, runs a number of services for cloud migration, engineering as a service, provisioning and enablement services. You will work within these services on the key following activities: You will work within an agile delivery squad initially focused on Delivery, Enhancements and the Engineering Service Product offerings. This role will interact directly with our customers, development teams, business product owners, IT Service Owners, closely coupled technical squads and 3rd party vendors. Able to provide technical leadership and support engagements from initial scope review, through to delivery. Be able to support new technology and build on support networks. Some interesting stuff for you...
Team: You will lead or work with teams to translate relevant business requirements into designs for Azure Cloud technical platforms. You will design, test and operate custom built or customized IT platforms aimed at improving business delivery processes. You will work according to bp's engineering practices, including Internet protocols, coding standards and reviews, source control management, design and operations processes.
Platforms: You will work with the team to create a clear vision and maximize value from current applications and emerging technologies, demonstrating technical thought leadership in your business area across a wide range of technologies and while you may be stronger in one cloud platform than the other, we are looking for an individual who is adaptable and willing to learn both platforms as required.
Relationships: You will contribute to the continuous improvement of the wider compute team by supporting and coaching Cloud Engineers ( G, H & I) and proactively improving the quality standards and efficiency of delivery.
Technology: You will build awareness of internal and external technology developments, managing the delivery of process and system improvements, identifying and implementing continuous improvement plans for Platform Engineering and ensuring best practice is shared across the team.
Core Skillset: Ideally, you will be certified Azure to Architect but be comfortable working in the AWS portal and be familiar with most of the most common services.
Bp have a number of flavours of cloud with inclusions/exclusions along the way.
We have federated ( hub & Spoke) as well as Enterprise (IaaS like) and our Engineers are comfortable working across both AWS and Microsoft Azure Platform Services (MAPS)
Safety and Compliance: Safety of our people and our customers is our highest priority. You will advocate and lead in this and promote a culture of security and compliance in everything that we do.
Education & Academics Ideally a Bachelor's (or higher) degree, preferably in Computer Science, MIS/IT, Mathematics or a hard science or equivalent experience. AWS and Azure experience in a relevant role. Cloud certified in Azure is preferable (both preferred but not essential) If you can adapt and deliver solutions meeting the demand in the marketplace, come join our team. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing flexible working arrangements. Agile or flexible working encompasses a wide range of working options, which help people to achieve their full potential. Entity: Innovation & Engineering Job Family Group: IT&S Group Relocation available: No Travel required: No Time Type: Full time Country: United Kingdom About BP INNOVATION & ENGINEERING
Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ?world. All without compromising our operational risk management.
Working with us, you can do this by:
deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ?safety ambitions
driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ?businesses from them
protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks
Because together we are:
Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors
Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs?
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