Job Description

Join Nordcloud and be part of the European cloud revolution. We supercharge our customers to innovate in hyperscaler cloud, enabling seamless migration, advanced security, and data-driven success.

Currently, we are looking for a OpenShift Architect to join our team in the UK.

Your

daily responsibilities:

Creating customized OpenShift solutions through activities such as running strategy & discovery workshops

Working with product specialists, product managers, public cloud partners, and other stakeholders to create the best solution to fit the customer's cloud architecture

Building robust cloud solutions, meeting business & technical objectives

Developing Vision, Strategy, and Roadmaps deliverables to meet technical solutions
+ Lead technical validation of the OpenShift solution against business/IT needs


Participating in deep architectural discussions with enterprise customers and OpenShift cloud partners to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software, and services on VMware's cloud platform

Effectively communicating solutions architecture to the customer, third parties, and the project teamsoContributing and delivering against OCP and Cloud-technology roadmaps

Collaboratively working with other engineering teams and 3rd party suppliers to build and release enterprise-class solutions that progress the OCP roadmap

Maintaining, supporting & improving our Cloud platforms using SRE principles including some 24x7 standby requirements

Continuous iteration of our Infrastructure as Code & pipeline based product catalog, responding to change, implementing enhancements & improving the platform reliability

Maintaining the evergreen nature of our platform, ensuring our platform remains current

Investigating, fixing, and removing service issues with an engineering mindset

Implementing further automation and reducing toil, utilizing new & existing Cloud products

Your key skills:

Strong architecting background and prepared to work in an operations environment, using experience from support activities to standardize, automate and improve the platform experience

Strong dev ops understanding, "Infrastructure as Code" using technology such as Terraform, Chef and Jenkins, Ansible

Strong experience working with a broad set of Infrastructure and Cloud technologies and services

Good understanding of hosting platforms, such as VMWare, and Enterprise services (Networks, Security Tooling, UAM, etc)

Awareness and experience with container hosting services, Kubernetes, and related tools

Ability to write scripts in languages such as PowerShell, BASH, Python, and Groovy

A strong understanding of Cloud Security and working within an enterprise compliance framework

Experience at solving problems and troubleshooting, fixing and resolving issues - owning incidents and problems through to route cause

A passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills

Strong experience using Kubernetes and associated products (Service Mesh, EFK, etc)

What we offer:

Individual

training budget

and

exam fees

for certifications Flexible working hours and hybrid working model Company laptop and needed equipment

Local package

such as up to 7% matched pension contributions, extensive private health care, Bupa dental plan, and a seasonal ticket loan, enhanced maternity and parental leave, gym expense or well-being monthly and mobile phone allowance

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All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

About Nordcloud

Nordcloud is a European leader in cloud implementation, application development, managed services and training. It's a recognised cloud-native pioneer with a proven track record helping organisations leverage public cloud in a way that balances quick wins, immediate savings and sustainable value.




Nordcloud is triple-certified across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform - with 10 European hubs, over 1,300 employees and has delivered over 1,000 successful cloud projects for companies ranging from midsize to large corporates.



Our clients benefit from multi-cloud expertise that guides best practices, preempts pitfalls, provides essential technical support and steers teams through cultural change. From strategy planning to application management, we take our customers through the whole cloud journey to drive real business outcomes from cloud technology.



Learn more at www.nordcloud.com (http://www.nordcloud.com)


Nordcloud values diversity and is dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all candidates and employees.


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