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About the Role

The Senior Hybrid Cloud Engineer will support, maintain, and develop the Guardian's hybrid infrastructure environment, focusing on AWS and the migration of on-premise services to the cloud. This role involves implementing best practices, liaising with IT management, provisioning AWS infrastructure, and assisting with ongoing support of physical and virtual infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain and develop our hybrid infrastructure environment, with a strong focus on AWS and the migration of on-premise services into the cloud
• Implement best practice for all systems and help maintain platform standards.
• Liaise with IT management and wider technology teams, presenting designs and discussing issues, ideas and improvements as required.
• Translate complex technical issues, designs and requirements for colleagues and stakeholders with varying levels of technical knowledge.
• Provision, implement and manage AWS infrastructure components such as virtual machines, storage, networking, managed services and related cloud-native tooling.
• Assist with the ongoing support of physical and virtual infrastructure, including servers, storage and related platform services.
• Use automation to improve operational efficiency across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Develop, manage and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling where appropriate.
• Participate in the out-of-hours support rota for troubleshooting and resolving issues.

Requirements

• Strong experience working with AWS in a hybrid infrastructure environment.
• Experience supporting, building and maintaining Windows Server environments, VMWare platforms and AD-related identity services.
• Understanding of Entra ID and its role in a hybrid identity environment.
• Experience supporting infrastructure migration or transformation activity, ideally involving movement from on-premise services into cloud platforms.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure security, resilience, monitoring and operational best practice.
• Understanding of network technologies in a hybrid cloud/on-premise environment.
• Experience supporting infrastructure security hardening activities, including applying CIS Benchmarks, NIST guidance or comparable security standards.
• Collaborative approach, with a willingness to share knowledge and support colleagues.
• Comfortable helping to steer technical direction and support the team’s move towards cloud-first ways of working.
• Able to participate in the out-of-hours support rota for troubleshooting and resolving issues (1 week in 3 on a rotational basis with a paid on-call allowance).

Location

• Kings Cross

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Remote

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• The minimum salary for any full-time role within the organisation is £30,000 per annum. Salary ranges are dependent on skills and experience

Benefits

• 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• Generous pension scheme: if you contribute 5% then we will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age).
• 2 volunteering days annually.
• Option of payroll giving.
• Season ticket loans.
• Private healthcare.
• Life cover.
• Income protection.
• Eye tests.
• Optional dental insurance.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies.
• IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy.
• Access to employee benefits platform for health and wellbeing support.
• Free yoga and pilates classes.
• Corporate gym membership.
• Cycle to work scheme.

About the Company

• Join a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account.
• Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
• We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.
• We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
• We encourage personal and professional growth.
• Guardian News and Media is proud to be a London Living wage employer.

Equal Opportunity

• We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
• We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people.
• We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future.
• We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
• All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply.
• It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best.
• Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs.