Purpose of job:
Our aim is to become a market leader in the provision of Electric Vehicle charging solutions to Local Authorities and Businesses as part of our strategy to lead the transition to zero carbon.
The goal is to undertake an ambitious electric vehicle charging installation program, deploying high volume and quality EV installations across the nation. The target areas will be public destination charging locations, primarily deploying fast-charging solution 7.4k W to 22k W with potential 50k W to 200k W rapid solution as and when required. Our aim is to make the world a better place, one charge point at a time.
The Zest Platform team are highly skilled technical team providing secure and safe environments for our developers to work in. Our aim is to do everything we can to allow our Software Engineers to focus on delivering quality results cost effectively and following best practices. We work closely with the Software Engineers providing support on technical challenges and guidance to ensure optimised and well architected solutions. We are accountable for the infrastructure delivery across multiple projects providing standardised, centralised where appropriate and consistent results. We also provide a level of support for our production applications as well as administration of our tooling solutions.
The Cloud Engineer needs to be self-motivated with strong resiliency and resourcefulness under pressure. They will be required to work closely with and support the Platform team to deliver solutions that make a difference to our IT objectives. They need a strong grounding in Dev Ops, Sec Ops and Fin Ops practices as well as technical skills in public cloud platforms including AWS, strong experience with Ia C languages (eg Terraform, CDK, Cloud Formation) and complex application support.
Key Accountabilities:
The role is responsible for the following:

• Design, build and documentation of platform configuration for automation and shared tooling.
• Monitoring platform security, stability, scalability, connectivity, cost and performance and acting on any findings.
• Develop and document improvements in platform tools, following the agile development processes through test and into live.
• Ensure that security standards and AWS architectural recommendations are considered as part of each deployment and built into the development solutions.
• Investigate and manage administration of new tools and processes for platform, and the IT development team to support improved and more efficient work e.g., backup, change, access requests etc.
• Understand projects across multiple teams to provide platform support on technical challenges, documenting detailed designs and technical breakdowns of solutions or processes.
• Any other duties required

Outcome, Results and Key performance indicators:

• Provision of secure working cloud environments
• Creation and documentation of reusable automation to support continuous delivery and integration
• Delivery of secure and cost performant solutions
• Delivery of high-quality project, solution and tooling documentation
• Development and delivery of infrastructure for projects as required
• Successfully meeting the goals of the IT team

Key Relationships:

• Internal – Development Team, QA Team, Solution Architect, CTO, IT Service Team, Finance team, Data Analytics Team
• External – AWS Support, others as required

Knowledge and Skills:

• At least 5 years public cloud experience
• Technical support background
• Experience of Dev Ops, Fin Ops and Sec Ops in Cloud environments
• Experience of key AWS services such as Security Hub, Trusted Advisor, Cost Explorer, VPC,
• Cloud Watch, Event Bridge, Cloud Trail, Control Tower and Organisations
• Experience of AWS account management
• Experience of systems administration across a multi-service environment including databases
• Understanding of AWS Best Practices and Well-Architected Framework
• Understanding of AWS pricing models
• Experience of Network design principles and implementation in AWS
• Understanding of vulnerability management and secure design principles, including compliance frameworks and security technologies
• Experience of CI/CD capability, repository management and pipeline management
• Experience in alert writing and monitoring
• Experience in a range of programming languages to include: Python, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Typescript, CDK and bash script
• Excellent skills in debugging and trouble shooting
• Excellent skills in technical writing

Behaviours:

• Self-motivated professional
• Enthusiastic learner
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Negotiation and stake holder management skills
• Patient and adaptable to high pressure situations
• Approachable and supportive team player and mentor
• Analytical problem solving
• Good attention to detail

Qualifications:

• AWS certification, desirable

Contract:

• 6 Month initial contract
• Salary – up to £450 per day

Zest is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the values and ultimately societal benefits of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Please note we will not be working with external agencies in recruitment for this role.
Job Type: Freelance
Pay: Up to £450.00 per day
Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leeds, LS1 5DE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds, LS1 5DE