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