Cloud Operations Manager – London – 6 months contract – excellent day rate
I am recruiting for a Cloud Operations Manager to work for a large insurance company based in London.
You will be responsible for overseeing the teams that deliver change and ensure the smooth running of the infrastructure that delivers IT to all required parties. You will
automate the lifecycle management of hybrid networks to achieve agility, cost savings and provide unified lifecycle management, centralized monitoring and visualisation.
Role & Responsibilities
- Analyse, research, track, and report system concerns, identify business impacts and make recommendations related to daily business operations within the cloud team
- Develop, refine and execute Standard Operating Procedures, workbooks, and Tactic, Techniques, and Procedures for repeatable
- Configure and manage security polices, compliance policies, and access controls to AWS resources
- Respond and resolve production incidents related to AWS resources operating systems running on EC2 instances
- Contribute to the success of building and maintaining a world-class infrastructure, with key objectives in the areas availability, capacity, scalability, performance and security management
- Collect, analyze and report on availability, capacity and performance metrics for infrastructure health
- Coordinate and Implement security strategies developed by the Security Office
- Ensure group compliance with all security controls and processes
- Flexible work schedule will be required at times
- Assist project and development teams with the preparation of releases for production
Essential Skills & Experience
- Any certification would be accepted: AWS, ITIL, CISSP, VCP, CISM, CIPP, CISA, MCPS, MS, MCSE
- Experience with open source and proprietary cloud and virtualization technologies (OpenStack, Docker, Azure, AWS, Helion, vCloud)
- Familiarity with Git, Java and Continuous Integration
- 2yrs+ experience with cloud platforms such as EC2, CloudStack, OpenStack
- Proficiency with the tools and technologies in clients technology stack
Contract details
- Day rate - £650-£750
- 6 months contract (potential to be extended depending on the client’s requirements)
- 5 days a week in the London office