Cloud Engineer

Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.

Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.

Janes is on a journey to build the next generation of data analysis technology to power its business, transforming the collection, assimilation, and delivery of intelligence on a global basis. We are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our team as we continue to build the next generation of OSINT products and services.
We are building a modern AWS cloud infrastructure, with a focus on cloud native and serverless technologies. This role is key to enable the delivery of our new platforms, while ensuring we have a safe, performant and operable cloud infrastructure to build on for the future. It is an exciting time at Janes and this role is one that can add real value and have influence on how we get things done.

• Design, build, and operate our cloud-based infrastructure adhering to the AWS Well-Architected Framework as appropriate.
• Maintain and develop IaC codebase and ensure platform services are safe, performant and operable.
• Help ensure we adopt an environment of continuous improvement across core principles including monitoring and security.
• Develop engineering standards and practices and ensure they are followed.
• Help to mentor teams in IaC and best use of AWS services.
• Work alongside architects, development, and service teams to deliver together.
• Operate in an agile environment, ensuring delivery of outcomes on solid foundations.
• Impact both operations and change, helping where needed to achieve our goals as one team.

• In-depth AWS operating experience at an organisation rather than service level.
• Experience building, deploying, and operating core services in a multi-account architecture with knowledge across accounts and networks, backup, logging, security services, and application and data services.
• In-depth experience with Terraform.
• Experience with cloud-native, API-driven, serverless architectures.
• Experience working on Containerized environments (Kubernetes/Docker).
• Good working knowledge of Configuration Management tools like Ansible.
• Windows and Linux management
• Servers Management including patching of EC2 Instances
• Strong understanding of security considerations across the cloud estate.
• Experience with disaster recovery, and incident and problem management.
• Good understanding and appreciation of agile and modern software engineering practices.
• Understanding of cost and usage analysis, trending and forecasting reports, buying strategies, and best practices for cloud adoption.
• Must have relatively easy access to our offices either in Manchester or Croydon regularly. We can offer onsite or hybrid work (the minimum expectation is to be onsite 2 days per week).

Personal attributes:

• The ability to identify opportunities for change and take ownership of that change.
• Good balance of operational and change mindsets.
• Team player with the ability and tolerance to work with others.
• Loves technology, continues to learn and keeps skills up to date.
• Can demonstrate an innovative, dynamic and creative approach to problem-solving.
• Has attention to detail and can switch between developing and operating mindsets easily.

• 27 days of annual leave  
• Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)  
• Leave- study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
• Pension plan (6% employer contribution) 
• Private medical insurance – Vitality
• Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)  
• Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks) 
• Life cover  
• In-office gym (Croydon only)
• Access to GoodHabitz