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Senior Cloud Engineer

Biggin Hill
7 months ago
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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure Team! Based in our Biggin Hill office and covering Race Events to ensure Formula 1’s Cloud and Kubernetes Systems are correctly designed, maintained and developed so that it continues to meet Formula 1’s on-going Business and Production objectives.

Reporting to the Cloud Architect, you will:

  • Build, Maintain, develop and support F1’s enterprise cloud platforms

  • Build, Maintain, develop and support F1’s enterprise Kubernetes platforms in the cloud and on premise

  • Be a senior stakeholder within the team and within projects, providing guidance, best practices, and solutions.

  • Work closely with Formula 1’s Information Security team to ensure governance and security compliance is met and maintained.

  • Support the Formula 1 Grand Prix events remotely from the Media & Technology Centre in Biggin Hill, looking after the on-premises Kubernetes platforms, and Cloud hosted systems.

  • Utilize Terraform to design and provision infrastructure as code, enabling scalable and repeatable deployment of resources.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues, working closely with cross-functional teams.

  • Work with cross functional teams to build and maintain multi-site, hybrid Kubernetes platforms.

  • Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline cloud system architectures and enhance collaboration.

  • Be available to work on systems outside of usual ‘Business Hours’, both planned and any potential unplanned work

  • Working closely with the DevOps team to ensure strategic technical objectives are met and system delivery is streamlined.

    Please note: This role will involve working from Biggin Hill over race weekends which will involve some unsociable hours

    Essential Skills & Technical Areas of Responsibilities:

  • Perform well during time sensitive situations

  • Flexibility to adapt to ever-changing tasks

  • Great communication and willingness to learn

  • Minimum 7 years IT experience

  • Minimum 4 years AWS experience working with security groups, VPC’s, EKS, EC2, IAM, Route53 and S3

  • Knowledge of AWS Cloud networking (Direct Connect, VPC’s, Transit Gateways)

  • Experience as 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer or Site Reliability engineer

  • Understanding of low-level compute architectures such as CPU, memory, and storage.

  • Extensive hands-on Kubernetes experience

  • Current UK driving license

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