Cloud Platform Engineer

Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.  Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we’re delighted to share a newly created opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of Azure Cloud Platform Engineer.

Location, Aberdeen , UK.

As an Azure Cloud Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team of Engineers, Consultants, and Architects involved in critical strategic projects. This role is ideal for an experienced cloud engineer who is experienced in working with Azure, specialising in automation and on-prem migrations/data-center moves.

Key requirement of the role is to work with the Platform and Security Manager to improve ways of working, demonstrated by results such as the level of reliability of infrastructure services:

• Supports the execution of the IS strategy and roadmap, including developing relevant functional objectives for the area
• Responsible for leading the administration, support, installation, configuration and troubleshooting of infrastructure hardware and services by defining strategic objectives aligned with business requirements
• Ensures on-going security, performance, stability, maintenance, and monitoring of the Infrastructure hardware and services
• Responsible for IT vendor/partner management and delivery assurance
• Provides technical guidance on infrastructure elements of IT projects
• Performs system administration tasks on system platforms such as UNIX, Windows, VMWARE, and Cloud based systems that utilize the Enterprise and Cloud storage solutions
• Administers existing Private, Hybrid, and Public Cloud Storage resources including Block, File, and Object level storage solutions

At Sword, we are proud of cultivating a respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our people, whatever their background or stage in their career.  We welcome your application should you hold the right core experience, knowledge and your application sufficiently outlines your relevant skills or transferrable skills in this area.  If you believe you're qualified, but don't "check all the boxes", please still submit an application and we will explore your experience further.

• Self-motivated and pro-active with a willingness to go the extra mile to achieve important goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to the IS workforce
• Proven experience as a subject matter expert in operational infrastructure support and maintenance (including own and cloud data centres) in the oil and gas sector or equivalent, covering systems such server, storage, back-up & recovery, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS and security services
• Experience and knowledge of cloud infrastructure services including tooling and security
• Understanding of ITIL practices
• Ability to think logically and demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience implementing packages and working with vendors
• Cloud Server, Storage & backup and recovery solutions administration including in Azure and AWS environments
• Automation of workflows, operational processes, capacity management, and system administration tasks using automation tools for example i.e cli, powershell, ansible, terraform
• Expertise or good working knowledge of key infrastructure applications, such as Citrix, Virtualisation tools etc.

Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.

Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  All applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.