Senior Cloud Engineer

Compensation

£60,000 - £70,000 Base + Performance Related Bonus + Benefits

Who are we?

Hypercube Consulting is the cloud, data, and AI consulting company for the energy sector. We're building a world-class team of technology experts with deep domain knowledge in all things energy.

To understand more about who we are and what we do, visit our website here:

Hypercube | AI | Data Science | Data Strategy | Data Engineering - Unlocking the power of data and AI for the energy sector

To get a better understanding of how we think and some of the ways we work, check out our founder’s blog here: https://aesroka.substack.com

Role purpose

First of all - we're adaptable and interested in a mix of people to make the best team. We're currently looking for someone that fits either the typical data engineer or machine learning engineer role (or a blend).

This is an early hire for a young, fast-growing consultancy. We're looking for someone that is adaptable and driven that wants to grow with our business and have a strong say in how we shape the company.

Work with our expert data and analytics consultants to help customers deliver more value from their data.

This will be a key role in the technical delivery teams and will guide and support the ongoing data strategy and roadmap goals of our customers.

Day-to-day work will involve project delivery and collaborating with stakeholders across our internal and customer teams. Technical work will include building, testing, deploying, maintaining, packaging, and explaining cloud infrastructure, machine learning, data platform and advanced analytics solutions for our customers - built with modern tools across the open source and cloud platform landscape.

You'll spend time capturing requirements and working with the other consultants to turn them into production-grade solutions - getting value into production is our prime concern for all our engagements.

You will act as a champion and subject-matter expert for cloud engineering across the business, helping to cross-skill and upskill others.

You will also be heavily involved in the outreach and knowledge sharing that Hypercube does. We strongly believe that giving back to the community is an important part of our purpose and the best way to learn. We will help you grow your brand through speaking, blogging, or other outreach methods should you wish.

Finally, you’ll be in the driving seat to help shape and win new projects, whether that be through presales demos, meeting with prospective customers, or shaping longer-term relationships.

Accountabilities

• Provide guidance, leadership, and mentoring to cloud engineers to help build cloud competencies within the team.
• Understand customer requirements to design effective cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Lead the implementation of cloud-based infrastructure and security solutions that empower customer users to work more securely and efficiently.
• Communicate effectively both externally and internally to ensure projects are delivered to the customer’s satisfaction.
• Responsible for the continuous improvement for build processes and operational customer documentation and proactively recommending improvements for these processes.
• Confidently design large parts of a cloud infrastructure solution with a cloud architect and understand how they combine with others to form a complete system.
• Ensure any technical issues met on delivery or support by the cloud engineers are investigated and resolved and if required, escalated to a cloud architect.
• Work closely with the Project Manager to ensure technical tasks are completed on time and to a high-quality standard.
• Participate in pre-sales engagements to feed into sales proposals with detailed scope of works, assumptions and correct time estimates working with a cloud architect.

Technical skills

We understand that this list is extensive – please apply if you fit some or only part of it we're flexible and are mostly looking for bright people that can adapt as the role grows. We want to see the broadest range of possible candidates from a diverse mix of backgrounds. Technical skills are only part of the equation.

Ideally, you will have hands-on experience with the following in a previous role:

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Core networking, security, server, virtualisation, and active directory technologies.
• Azure Active Directory – Authentication, Authorisation, Conditional Access, AD Connect.
• Scripting – PowerShell, Azure CLI, JSON.
• Azure Files and Azure Storage.
• Azure Virtual Machines.
• Azure Monitor, Azure log analytics, Kusto Query Language.
• Azure SIEM, Azure Security Center.
• Azure Backups, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate.
• Azure Networking and Firewalls.
• Azure SQL security, backup, recovery, resilience.

Additional experience with the following would be beneficial, but not essential:

• Infrastructure as code.
• Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance.
• Microsoft 365 Endpoint Management.
• Microsoft 365 Exchange Online.
• Microsoft SharePoint Online.
• Microsoft OneDrive for Business.
• Containers and related services (AKS, Container Registry)
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Testing

Other desirable skills and experience

• Technical mentoring for cloud engineers.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to adhere to documentation standards and support cloud engineers to improve their written and verbal communication.
• Continuous learning and development through on the job and self-study, combined with achieving certifications relevant to the business strategy.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities and ability to get to the root cause quickly and to mentor cloud engineers to adopt same principles.
• Ability to think out of the box when faced with difficult technical challenges and propose solutions to these challenges, and help cloud engineers when faced with similar challenges.
• Ability to act as a driving force in a growing technology consultancy
• Building projects or sharing knowledge in public – whether that be contributing to open source, blogging, YouTube, content creation, speaking at events, or similar.
• Experience in collaborating in multidisciplinary teams, including software engineers, DevOps and infrastructure teams, data scientists etc.

What’s in it for you?

Hypercube is a young, growing data and analytics consultancy that aims to bring in the best possible talent to solve the most interesting challenges for our customers. We’re willing to do what it takes to secure the best possible people. We want to build a world-class team.

You’ll be one of the earliest hires for our organisation and, therefore, will have a huge impact on the culture and how it is shaped. You’ll have the chance to influence decisions in a fast-paced start-up and grow with the organisation.

You'll have direct access to our existing team of experienced data and analytics leaders and their wider network.

You’ll also be helped to grow your own brand as you contribute to the outward-facing aspects of this business.

Benefits

• Pension
• Performance related bonus
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexible working
• Events and community
• Private health insurance
• Health cash plan
• EV leasing scheme (soon!)
• Training and events budget
• Mentorship programmes
• and more to come (we're exploring some cool stuff, watch this space)

IMPORTANT!!

Hypercube is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive employee environment which is as representative as possible of our society. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, nationality, religion or belief, gender, and sexual orientation.

Finally, we would consider part-time, condensed hours, job-share, and other flexible arrangements to secure the absolute best people. If in doubt, please ask, and we'll see how to make it work.