GCP Cloud Engineer

GCP Cloud Engineer

£55,000-£60,000 + £7,344 standby allowance

National Gas is securing Britain’s energy.  We are responsible for transporting gas to power stations, major industries, storage facilities, and more than half a million businesses and 24 million homes through nearly 5,000 miles of pipes across Britain. National Gas is also proud to lead the way in transforming the energy network for a clean energy future.

Working as part of a highly talented technical Infrastructure administration team, we're looking for an experienced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Engineer to join us, working a standard 37 hour week Monday to Friday.   To service the capacity demand for the function, the business requires 24x7x365 support for the Cloud Environments, and in order to resource this, the team operate a minimum of a 1-in-3 standby rota to provide out of hours support to ensure key areas of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI i.e. IMS/SCO/CMC/EPTW etc) is available at all times.

Join us, and help be the energy behind the change.

Key accountabilities:

• Management of cloud infrastructure platforms, ensuring the security and availability of the environments that host National Gas enterprise services.  The team ensure 24/7 availability of this service, as well as monitoring and managing the infrastructure platform.

• System monitoring and optimisation.  Perform incident response and change management for efficiency and cost control.

• Responsibility for ensuring availability and reliability of cloud environments and services.

• Enhancing security:  identification and remediation of potential issues; collaboration with security teams to ensure compliance including the ASR team e.g. responding to security and vulnerability assessments and implementing recommendations to the cloud platform.

• Ownership of project deliverables, related change/incident tickets to meet timelines, KPIs and SLAs for the cloud platform and cloud services for CNI and the cloud infrastructure.

• Implementation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps Pipelines to maximise deployment and maintenance efficiency.

About you:

You have proven experience as a Lead Cloud Administrator or similar role, with GCP and ADO (Azure DevOps).  You’re reliable, dependable and able to commit to a standby rota.  We’re looking for a self-starter, who can take the initiative, a team player, someone detail orientated, with excellent communications.

Qualifications:

• Relevant Certification for either Azure or Google Cloud Platforms (GCP).
• Degree in relevant subject or significant equivalent Technology experience.
• ITILv4 Foundation Certificate.

Knowledge:

• Advanced knowledge of standard Cloud Services.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with project teams, service owners, and other stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Project Delivery and Continuous Improvement methods and processes.
• Knowledge of the Cyber Assessment Framework and Audit Assessments (eg ISO27001).

Skills:

• Strong Windows and Linux Skills.
• Proficiency with Automation Tools (eg Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Ability to perform Performance Tuning, Right Sizing and Disaster Recovery.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex transition plans and updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to deploy and manage containerised workloads.

What we can offer you:

• Salary £55,000-£60,000 dependant on experience
• Additional £7,344 per annum standby allowance for on-call rota
• Annual performance bonus,
• 26 days' holiday, plus 8 statutory days - plus option to buy 5 additional days,
• Double-match pension - every £1 you put in, we add £2,
• Opt-In flexible benefit scheme, including salary sacrifice car plan, private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans, and more,
• Financial protection with 10x salary death in service and financial support if you're unable to work due to long term illness or injury,
• Excellent family friendly provisions - maternity/paternity/adoption/surrogacy/ shared parental leave,
• Career progression, professional training, courses & certifications,
• Employee assistance programme offering free confidential professional counselling 24/7,
• Financial support to cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions relevant to your role.

Other 'nice to knows':

• Standard working week: 37 hours Monday-Friday
• Standby on-call rota 1 week in every 3: overnight weekdays Mon-Fri or weekends Fri PM to Mon AM), as part of a team to cover 24/7/365 – currently £432 per week extra i.e. additional £7,344 per annum

About us:

Gas is an essential part of a secure energy supply in Britain and will continue to play a vital role in the energy system for decades to come. More than ever, we need the security that gas brings to keep the lights on, businesses running, and homes warm. National Gas provides that security.

Gas provides the energy security to support renewable electricity generation, and we are developing our infrastructure to transport hydrogen and carbon dioxide across the country. We are Britain’s national gas network, providing secure energy to power the country, achieve net zero and maintain our industrial competitiveness.

At National Gas, we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities that we serve. We celebrate the different experiences our colleagues bring and encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. To that end we want to support you during the interview process, please advise your recruitment partner if you require any reasonable adjustments.

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Security clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).