Cloud Platform Engineer

Howdens Joinery has an exciting new opportunity in the Cloud Team. We are looking for a new Cloud Platform Engineer to design, develop, test and deploy solutions to improve collaboration and productivity of the development teams by automating infrastructure, automating workflows and continuously measuring and improving application performance.

This is a full time, permanent opportunity based from either our office in Brackmills business park, Northampton or Raunds, Northamptonshire with a mixture of home and office working.

What you will be doing as a Cloud Platform Engineer:

• You will be responsible for creating, maintaining and deploying secure, high-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale via on-premise and cloud-native architectures for development, testing and production environments.


• Developing and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery and security/performance monitoring


• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments to maximize efficiency and optimise for flow therefore allowing the delivery teams to deploy new code daily.


• Help to develop policies, standards, governance, and related guidance for teams in using the CI/CD pipelines.


• Work with architects to design scalable infrastructure and systems for complex applications.


• Collaborate with Release Manager in the release planning, by identifying deployment steps and other activities that must be undertaken prior and post deployment;


• Responsible for developing and supporting container-based solutions using Kubernetes/Docker for Azure Cloud.


What we need from you:

Broad experience within the Cloud Technologies and Platforms, including but not limited to:

• 
  + Azure Cloud
  + Azure DevOps (or other CI/CD GIT platforms)
  + Azure Active Directory (Identity Management, Service Principles, Security Groups, Role Management, MFA)
  + Key Vault
  + Cloud Security and Connectivity (vNet, DNS, Firewalls, Express Route / Direct Connect, VPN, GTM, NSG)
  + Subscription Management (Resource Groups, cost management)
  + Cloud Monitoring
  + Shared Services (Kubernetes, API Management)
  + CDN (Akamai)
  + High Availability (Zones and Regions, Service Recovery)
  
  
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Configuration management tools e.g. Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Azure.


• Practical experience with containerization and clustering technologies i.e., Docker/Kubernetes.


• Experience of building automated CI/CD pipelines with tools such as SonarQube, Fortify, Selenium, etc.


• Excellent communicator, able to influence decision makers and work successfully in cross-functional teams
  
  Competitive salary and annual company bonus


• Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)


• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with the option to buy additional days


• Staff Discount.


• Exceptional Reward and Recognition events.


About Howdens:

FTSE100 company and the UK's number one trade kitchen supplier Howdens Joinery provides thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware. We have over 840 depots throughout the UK and Europe - making us the first choice for more than 460,000 loyal trade professionals. Last year our sales reached circa 2.3bn, and we have an ambitious growth agenda.

There is a strong entrepreneurial ethos and the opportunity to develop within a fast-paced and commercial environment. That, along with a competitive salary, development opportunities, and exciting rewards, are among the reasons why our people enjoy working for Howdens - and why we have been named one of the 10 Best Big Companies to Work For.