Cloud Engineer (Backup/Rubrik) in Reading

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: Reading / Forbury Place, Havant / Penner Road.

Salary: 51,600 - 77,400 + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.

The role is within the central Cloud Engineering team and focuses on our backup capability using Rubrik. You would contribute to the design and delivery of services delivered within SSE, primarily in the backup/data protection space across various IaaS and PaaS cloud services, but also on-premises infrastructure, with the opportunity to get involved in other cloud initiatives. The role will provide the opportunity to be part of SSE's digital transformation and migration of applications to Cloud, ensuring the platform achieves the target standards of efficiency, resilience and availability required by the organisation.

You will:

• Work closely with a team of strategists, architects, and subject matter experts to craft technical solutions that accelerate our business.
• Take an SME role for our backup platform, collaborating with and providing guidance to our IT Operations partner who run the Rubrik service day to day.
• Partner with Product owners and management to manage and clearly articulate demand planning and delivery against the projected backlog and book of work.
• Contribute to the design and development of automation, self-service and deployment frameworks in line with industry standard cloud patterns and practices.
• Identify and progress opportunities to drive continuous improvement across engineering, delivery, and operational practices.
• Ensure all architecture and infrastructure accommodates the latest security and software lifecycle patterns.

You have:

• Experience of working with backup solutions, particularly cloud-focused solutions. Experience of working with/managing Rubrik environments is preferable.
• Understanding of either Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure and Cloud Native Architectures is essential.
• Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of operational support procedures and managing 3rd Party software deployments in line with vendor lifecycles.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and experience of at least one general purpose scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash, Powershell).
• Experience and knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code i.e. Terraform, or of Configuration Management i.e. Ansible/Puppet and exposure to common CI/CD solutions and tools such as GitHub, Gitlab, or Azure DevOps.

About SSE: SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing 33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030. Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide expertise, advice and day-to-day support in emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security and more.

Flexible benefits to fit your life include discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships, wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service, interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme, as well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer: SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact David.Brickell@sse.com / 01738 275 846 to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

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