Senior Cloud Engineer

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Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will join the Cloud Engineering team, working on building, maintaining, and scaling applications for global clients. You will work with modern infrastructure practices, including serverless computing, containerization, and orchestration frameworks. You will be responsible for reviewing and overseeing platform enhancements, completing implementations, ensuring security standards, automating tasks, conducting architectural reviews, developing CI pipelines, practicing Site Reliability Engineering concepts, managing cloud projects, and sharing knowledge with developers. This role requires a passionate technologist excited about cloud-native applications enhanced by AI. (103 words)
Must have:
  • Excellent Cloud knowledge in AWS / Google Cloud.
  • Understanding of microservice and serverless architectures.
  • Understand performance enhancement technologies (CDN, Caching).
  • Understand networking fundamentals.
  • Proficient in Dockerising applications.
  • Knowledge of managing applications deployed to Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Knowledge of Terraform or other IaC technologies.
  • Helm/ArgoCD knowledge.
  • AWS RDS (MySQL/Postgres) and MongoDB
  • A focus on security and following best practices.
Perks:
  • Eligible to join discretionary annual bonus scheme.
  • Flexible work environment: Choose to work from home or one of the offices, with flexible working hours.
  • Growth, Your Way: Paid day each month for self-development and access to LinkedIn Learning.
  • Family Support: Paid leave for primary and secondary caregivers, and courses for returning caregivers.

Job Details

Company Description

At Jellyfish, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives and inclusive collaboration. We welcome individuals who excel in collaborative, varied teams and value the unique contributions that each person brings to the table.

Jellyfish is a global digital marketing agency; a unique fusion of tech enthusiasts, creative minds, and media and data experts all united to empower our clients along their digital journey. Our commitment to embracing diverse perspectives fuels our innovation and strategies that challenge the status quo, reinvent media activation, and craft influential stories for our global clients and their customers. Join us in shaping a future where business growth and personal fulfilment go hand in hand.

Job Description

Reporting to our Vice President of Engineering, you will join our growing Cloud Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of web technologies, building, maintaining and scaling applications for our global clients.

You will work with modern infrastructure practices including serverless computing, containerisation, and orchestration frameworks, across platforms developed in PHP, NodeJS and Python. Many of these platforms are applying Generative AI capabilities, and you'll architect and optimise cloud infrastructure to support the latest solutions.

This is a role for a passionate technologist who is excited about shaping the future of cloud-native applications enhanced by AI.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Review and oversee platform enhancements.
  • Complete implementations, working well both independently and as part of a team.
  • Govern our technologies to ensure security standards are met.
  • Work in a DevOps capacity with a desire to automate everything.
  • Scope and estimate technical web builds.
  • Conduct architectural reviews.
  • Develop CI Pipelines.
  • Practice Site Reliability Engineering concepts and design.
  • Manage large cloud projects for our clients across multiple countries.
  • Work with our developers to help share knowledge and improve the quality of practices.
  • Advise on new technologies to make sure Jellyfish's products are always evolving.

Qualifications

  • Excellent Cloud knowledge in AWS / Google Cloud.
  • An understanding of microservice and serveless architectures.
  • Understand performance enhancement technologies (CDN, Caching).
  • Understand networking fundamentals.
  • Proficient in Dockerising applications.
  • Knowledge of managing applications deployed to Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Knowledge of Terraform or other IaC technologies.
  • Helm/ArgoCD knowledge.
  • AWS RDS (MySQL/Postgres) and MongoDB
  • A focus on security and following best practices.
  • You embrace challenges as opportunities, and when faced with a problem you collaborate with the appropriate people to evaluate different options find practical solutions.

Note: We emphasise skills, expertise and behavioural attributes over years of experience and traditional degrees. If you want to join our collaborative team, we invite you to apply today with your resume in English.

Additional Information

Join Jellyfish and experience a workplace where we prioritise your growth, celebrate your contributions, and empower you to tailor your work environment to suit your needs.

💰 Reward: You'll be eligible to join our discretionary annual bonus scheme.

💫 Custom Work Environment: Choose whether to work from home or one of our 3 offices, and shape your day between 8am. and 6:30pm with flexible working hours.

📈 Growth, Your Way: Accumulate one paid day each month (2 hours per week) for self-development and access to LinkedIn Learning with unlimited online courses

👪 Family Support: Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers. We also provide £1000 (or equivalent) towards courses for returning primary caregivers to support your transition back into work.

Unfortunately, there has been an increase in fake recruiters impersonating Jellyfish and unlawfully using our brand name. If you are unsure if an email with a job offer you have received is genuinely from Jellyfish, or if you suspect any fraudulent activity, please report it to talentacquisition@jellyfish.com.

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About The Company

Jellyfish started as a two-man band back in 2001, and since then we have grown into one of the most respected visual effects and animation studios in the world. We now employ over 400 artists across five UK studios and offer remote working around the globe. We are as dedicated as ever to creating stunning moving pictures.

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