Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS/GCP)

At Ensono, our purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

Developing impactful solutions is something we do together at Ensono because Ideas Start Here. Great things happen when many voices are heard, and people are supported to run with their ideas. On our teams, you will be backed by leaders with a passion for our business. This is a place where your ideas can Do Great Things.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business.

Adventure starts here. Here you will be a part of a team that encourages you to master your craft, ask tomorrow’s questions today, and chart your path. Our Associates focus on client impact with curiosity and a feeling of relentless commitment.

About the role and what you will be doing:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, friendly, Agile-based, team working on some of the hottest public cloud technologies.

The Public Cloud Product Engineering team works closely with our Product Management team to bring to life standard services and solutions that can be repeatedly sold to multiple managed service customers.

Using your strong background in automation, engineering, and best practice you will also play a major role in defining and evolving our public cloud standards, implementing new tools, onboarding new AWS and GCP services, and act as an SME supporting other teams.

The successful candidate will be someone who can demonstrate a genuine desire and passion for public cloud; automation; keeping it simple, supportable, and scalable; with proven ability to deliver pragmatic workable solutions on time.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the lead engineer on Product Engineering epics and stories.
• Develop (“operationalize”) new repeatable Ensono public cloud services and solutions.
• Define and evolve public cloud technical standards to ensure repeatability, supportability, scalability, and security.
• Make recommendations on technical stack including research, assessments, bake-offs, and proof of concepts.
• Assess and onboard new AWS and GCP services in line with the Product roadmap.
• Drive the deployment of automated infrastructure and systems using IAC, config management and scripting.
• Provide subject matter expertise and advice to pre-sales architects on our technical standards.
• Act as a final line of escalation and assistance for the cloud operations team for major problems.
• Proactively keep up to date on public cloud services and related technology.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of public cloud technologies (AWS and/or GCP).
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
• Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of networking concepts in a cloud environment.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect) are a plus.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.