Senior Cloud Engineer

Problems to Solve
The Cloud Engineer is a key piece to the success of Infrastructure and Operations. The person in this role will be tasked with driving innovation and modernization within National Grid s cloud environment(s). The Cloud Engineer needs to have a deep understanding of public and private cloud environments and be comfortable working within these environments. They will be primarily focused on building Azure infrastructure with an emphasis on networking.
Responsibilities

• Be hands on and proactive with our Azure infrastructure and automation around it
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of our main technology base, and how it can be improved
• Orchestrate, automate and optimize servers, storage, virtualization, high-availability, backup and disaster recovery
• Help maintain Azure infrastructure technology on a global level
• Deliver on complex situations or problems without guidance or supervision
• Demonstrate the application of National Grid values in all interactions with colleagues, partners and stakeholders

Position Technologies

• Microsoft Azure Experience
  • Azure Networking
    • ExpressRoute
    • Virtual Networks
    • Route Servers
    • Load Balancers (and Application Gateways)
• Networking
  • Firewalling
    • Azure Firewall
    • Palo Alto Panorama
    • Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls
  • Routing
    • BGP (MP-BGP)
  • Tunnelling / Encapsulation
    • IPsec
    • VXLAN
• Automation
  • Terraform or opentofu
  • Shell scripting
• Monitoring+IPAM
  • Netbox / Nautobot
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • ELK Stacks (flow logging)
• General Linux Systems Administration

Bonus Points

• Google Workspace and Google Cloud Platform administration experience
• Willing to learn new technologies and wear new hats as needed