GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job reference 325329

GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer , SNA00

4,000 Car allowance plus Healthcare , 18% annual bonus potential with 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 10 years service

Permanent , Full time

Pond Street, Sheffield x3 days a week

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Job Purpose

GCP Cloud Engineer - will be an experienced subject matter expert in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), in addition must have in depth technical knowledge of traditional physical, virtualised, hybrid and converged hosting models.

GCP Cloud Engineers are responsible for delivering Strategic Infrastructure Initiatives and maintaining service availability with accountability for annual cloud budgets exceeding £10 million.

GCP Cloud Engineers take a lead role in the RM Cloud Centre of Excellence that ensures RM drives value from cloud technologies. To be successful it is essential that GCP Cloud Engineers build strong relationships with numerous stakeholders :

GCP Cloud Engineers will influence the delivery of major Infrastructure Improvement Programmes working closely with Senior Infrastructure Managers providing technical expertise and guidance.

GCP Cloud Engineers will work closely with Architects from all Architecture disciplines (Enterprise, Solution, Cyber, Infrastructure and Data) to ensure that business solutions align to published best practice from cloud vendors and fit into the wider RM technology landscape. GCP Cloud Engineers must understand the current landscape and identify where improvements can be made to improve service availability (fixing repeat incidents – i.e. problems)

Technology Portfolios –GCP Cloud Engineers will work with technology portfolios to ensure that that any services that leverage cloud platforms are aligned to solid cloud foundations. Providing support and guidance to project, product and platforms teams

Supplier and Partners– GCP Cloud Engineers must build strong relationships with suppliers, vendors and business partners to drive transformational enhancements ensuring efficient well architected cloud services are delivered, in the event of major incidents GCP Cloud Engineers will aid the restoration and root cause analysis

Cyber Professionals – working closely with the RM Cyber team to ensure that best practice security controls are introduced to provide protection but balanced with the impact to user experience.

Service Management– GCP Cloud Engineers will act as the central point of contact when making GCP technology related decisions / service improvement plans (incidents, change, etc).

Key Accountabilities

GCP Cloud Engineers will be the technical engineering authority for GCP Cloud Platforms and Tenant level management., ensuring that services that consume cloud resources are done so in line with Cloud Adoption Framework

Ensuring that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts are managed and maintained within a central git repository and are maintained for core environmental configuration changes.

IaC Proficiency - Take lead on designing, publishing and maintaining Terraform code via Azure DevSecOps pipelines to support all core infrastructure deployments

Driving the automation agenda to introduce self-service for platform & product engineering to unlock Product based DevSecOps ways of working.

Accountable for defining, publishing, deploying and maintaining Cloud blueprints, guidelines, standards, patterns, and policy to drive consistency across Azure cloud technologies.

Be an active member of the Cloud Centre of Excellence establishing collaborative ways of working with other CCoE members from other Technology functions.

Work with the wider CCoE team to define a detailed Cloud Roadmap, publish, and promote allowing prioritisation, resource and budget alignment.

Part of a cross functional team to define and embed a FinOps culture throughout RM technology and wider business functions, allowing cost controls to be applied to cloud resources.

Risk and Issues Log Identify and report all risks and issues (provide severity and likelihood) related to your tower that are causing incidents and / or are having (or could have) an adverse effect on service performance.

Recommendation Development. Based on all known information, prioritise the development of recommendations & mitigation activities – to include all risks and costs of each initiative.

Supporting professional accreditation audit, and compliance.

Developing Relationships – GCP Cloud Engineers will be active members of the Technology & Data Design Authority community, leading workshops and events to drive the value from cloud technologies and understand future roadmaps from across the technology landscape.

Professional Development - Manage your professional development and identify opportunities (training courses, seminars, conferences etc) that will enable you to remain a leading expert in GCP based technologies

Stakeholder Engagement Identify key stakeholders for GCP technologies within and utilise them as a source of information, to challenge and support your decision / recommendation process.

Tower Integration - Actively contribute to Infrastructure strategy to promote the visibility of activities across technology.

Infrastructure Roadmaps – Develop and Publish a GCP roadmap detailing prioritised initiatives for the RM Azure tenant to help modernise the technology landscape, to mitigate service risks and underpin investment forecasting.

Reporting - Actively contribute to monthly reporting governance packs that are presented to technology executives.

Data Accuracy – ensure that discovery of resources within the RM GCP tenant are accurately reflected within the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

Key competencies

Core Skills :

Google Cloud Platform : VPC, Firewall, Security Groups / Service Accounts, Interconnects

Cloud Agnostic : - Guard Rails, FinOps, Policy, CCoE, RBAC, SDCI, CASB

Other : Azure DevOps platform, Azure AD, Azure Hybrid Benefit

ITIL Foundation

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face / virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here : https : / / www.internationaldistributionsservices.com / en / about-us /

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As part of the online application process you will be asked to confirm that you meet the minimum eligibility criteria. Before completing your application, you should read the criteria below in order to check that it is appropriate for you to apply. You will also need to seek approval from your line manager and may need additional HR approval in place before progressing.

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Terms of appointment are detailed within the advert and voluntary transfer terms will apply (unless stated otherwise).

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