AWS Cloud Consultant

• Belfast / Londonderry 

  Full-time

  Department: Digital Development & Architecture

  Company Description

  We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customer's businesses". We work hard to ensure we understand what our customers need from their technology solutions and then we deliver.
  
  We are an award-winning company who provide world class customer service; we think big and we hire great people. Version 1 are more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies.
  
  Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you.

  Job Description

  • Support multiple clients across multiple technologies
  • Mentoring of junior team members.
  • Consult with customers and across a cross-team environment.
  • Documentation and development of designs, processes and procedures.
  • Work within a structured ITIL / ISO20000 IT Service Management environment.
  • Works directly with client to gather requirements, design solutions, build proof of concepts and implement solutions.
  • Excellent presentation and reporting skills arising from customer facing and on-site experience.
  • Very strong verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required.
  • Project management skills with experience in stakeholder and communications management.
  • Escalation point for major incidents/investigations.

  Qualifications

  • 5+ years working in IT
  • Strong, first-hand experience of designing, building and supporting Enterprise solutions.
  • Experience in the full product lifecycle including: Concept generation, Design, Build and Support essential.
  • Interpreting, understanding and solving complex technical problems/incidents
  • Managed Services/Consultancy/project delivery experience with client facing background
  • Strong experience across multi-server, stand alone and clustered solutions.
  • Proven experience working with cloud technologies. E.g. AWS/Azure/OCI
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills required.

  Technical Skills

  • AWS Solutions Architect or SysOps Admin Certification essential
  • Infrastructure as Code automation experience essential: Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etc
  • AWS core services, including: Compute and Networking, Storage and CDN, Database on EC2/RDS, Application Services, Deployment and Management
  • Network technologies as they relate to AWS networking, including: Route53 and load balancing, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and AWS Direct Connect
  • Strong technical Linux experience - Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) preferred
  • Good broad technical knowledge across Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud etc)
  • ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
  • Strong experience in Cloud deployments (Public & Private)
  • Disaster recovery and site replication solutions experience

  Desirable Skills

  • DevOps and automation experience.
  • NextGen monitoring experience would be valuable, e.g. DataDog, NewRelic etc
  • GitHub experience
  • Any private cloud experience would be valued.  E.g. VMWare, HyperV, HP-UX
  • Webserver (e.g. Nginx, Apache)
  • Experience on SAN/Storage solutions
  • Exposure to ServiceNow
  • Networking concepts including routing tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, OSI model
  • Other Public Cloud experience such as Oracle Cloud.
  • Experience with backup technologies (e.g. Veeam, Data Protector, CommVault)

  **Candidates must be eligible for UK Security Clearance