Senior Cloud Engineer

The creative mind behind every project. Put your skills to the test to build solutions that continue to shape the world we live in. 
 

About Us

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!

At Ascent, we also believe in fostering a vibrant office community where collaboration thrives and connections flourish. With our hybrid approach, we prioritize hiring individuals who reside in close proximity to our offices. Our aim is to cultivate a positive atmosphere and sense of belonging by facilitating easy access to the office.

About the role 

Ascent is hiring a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer. In this role, you will work closely with a talented team of dynamic and passionate architects and engineers to deliver automated cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions to Ascent customers. We are obsessed with adding value and providing unprecedented levels of customer service. This role requires you to be willing to undertake support out of hours on a rota basis. We have a ‘You build it, you support it’s team responsibility model. 

Your responsibilities

Work closely with DevOps and cloud infrastructure architects and engineers to design, implement and manage secure, scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure environments for Ascent customers. 

Propose and implement cloud infrastructure transformation and automation based on customer requirements. 

Assist Ascent customers in transforming their infrastructure to modern technologies and methods for running microservices application architectures. 

Assist Ascent customers in building, troubleshooting and optimising container-based cloud infrastructure. 

Assist Ascent customers in selecting, implementing, and tuning continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) technology platforms. 

Assist Ascent customers in ensuring operational readiness for launching secure and scalable workloads into public and hybrid cloud environments. 

Work with Ascent customers to validate and troubleshoot existing CI and CD practices and recommend improvements and optimisations. 

Work with Ascent customers to validate existing infrastructure security, performance and availability and recommend improvements and optimisation. 

Implement infrastructure best practices for Ascent customers in areas such as DevOps, performance, scalability, security, and availability. 

 Skills and qualifications 

• Microsoft certifications: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), and Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305). 
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for Senior-level, cloud engineering and architecture stakeholder meetings. 
• Ability to facilitate the process of gathering requirements and presenting and explaining alternative cloud infrastructure architecture and configuration options. 
• Keen focus on customer service and an understanding of the relationship between technology solutions and business value. 
• Understanding of software and data engineering technologies, practices, and processes, in particular the common infrastructure and architectural patterns which underpin these types of environments. 
• 5+ years of experience working in an operational role as either an infrastructure engineer, systems administrator, network engineer, or database administrator with exposure to both on-premises virtualised (Hyper-V, VMware) environments, as well as Microsoft Azure. 
• 3+ years of experience and deep working knowledge of Microsoft Azure IaaS technologies including Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, and Virtual Networks as well as migration tooling such as Azure Migrate. 
• 3+ years of experience and deep working knowledge of Microsoft identity management systems Entra ID and Active Directory, including management and security best-practices. 
• 3+ years of experience of and deep working knowledge of version control and automation platforms such as Azure DevOps and/or GitHub, including development of automation pipelines for infrastructure and applications. 
• 2+ years of experience with scripting languages including Bash and PowerShell, particularly in conjunction with the Azure CLI, and Azure PowerShell. 

Working at Ascent 

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work. We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.
 
Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries. 
 
Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.