Azure Infrastructure Engineer Lead

Location

Remote | United Kingdom

Job description

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Lead (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 6 Months

Contracting Authority: Crown Commercial Services

Location: Remote/Liverpool/Birmingham/Norwich/London

CCS is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK.

As a trading fund and executive agency of the Cabinet Office, we implement procurement policy on behalf of the government.

We use the collective buying power of our customers and our commercial expertise to help public sector organisations achieve value for money and provide great outcomes for taxpayers.

As Lead Infrastructure Engineer, your main responsibilities would be: 

• You can lead teams and departments in the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
• Information security. You understand information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services. Modern standards approach.
• You will have a strong understanding and know how to apply the most appropriate modern standards and practices. You will take responsibility for coaching and guiding others. Ownership and initiative.
• You can take accountability of issues that occur and are proactive in searching for potential problems. You achieve excellent user outcomes.
• Problem solving. You can initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems, including consulting specialists where required. You can determine the appropriate remedy and assist with implementation of it as well as preventative measures.
  Service focus. You can take inputs and establish coherent frameworks that work.
• Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity. You know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Systems integration. You establish standards and procedures across a service product life cycle including the development product life cycle and ensure that practitioners adhere to this. You know how to manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
• Testing. You manage planning of system and/or acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications. You can provide authoritative advice and guidance on test planning and identify the process improvements and contribute to definition of best practice.
• Troubleshooting and problem resolution. You have lateral thinking capability to dissect a problem to its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Coding. You can interact, read code, write HTML and carry out baseline repair activities IT infrastructure.
• Anticipate and advise on future technology changes that present opportunities for the product or programme.
• Can troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities including computing, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, and COTS and open-source solutions.
• Experienced working in Azure/AWS environment.
• Design develop and maintain cloud automated solutions.
• Knowledge and expertise in scripting tools, such as VSCode, PowerShell, git, bash
• Strong skills in Azure Infrastructure and GitHub Actions.
• CI CD experience with code management
• Understanding of application security and information security control.
• Configuration management
• Good understanding of large-scale distributed systems in practice, including multi-tier architectures, application security, monitoring and storage systems.
• Technically proficient in Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Storage, AKS, Azure API Management.
• Strong experience with Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with [email protected]

At CCS, we actively support, promote, and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers, and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people.

Disability confident  

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CCS guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

CCSguarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on [email protected].  

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview. 

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any?point during the recruitment process or if there is a?more accessible way for us to communicate, please do?let me know. 

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

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