Desired Skills and Experience

  • Automate the operation and management of the cloud infrastructure for the digital editions application and various Enterprise applications. 
  • Be a technical subject matter expert for the CNI application teams for cloud infrastructure. 
  • Manage technical queries by third party partners and internal teams. 
  • Configuration and management of CI and CD environments and tools. 
  • Provide application developers secure platforms to manage credentials and configuration options.
  • Support application developers in debugging and architecting solutions on a cloud environment. 
  • Effective monitoring and logging of applications. 
  • Provide and maintain a secure platform for CNI to deploy and run its applications.
  • Communicates the solution design to the system integrators with sufficient detail to allow them to deliver the solution as specified. 
  • Works closely with third party vendors and suppliers, overseeing development and maintenance tasks and ensuring solutions meet the required specification and meet the required quality, performance and security standards. 
  • Work with the security manager to deliver a compliant platform for CNI to base its applications off.
  • Create solution documentation, required to release and support the product. 
  • Work closely with the Support Manager to ensure a smooth transition into production.
  • Proven experience of using Amazon Web Services (AWS) including AWS services/products such as EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, RDS, CloudWatch and overall account structure / security. 
  • Good general technical understanding across digital and enterprise applications and infrastructure. Familiarity with the following technologies: AWS, NoSQL and SQL databases 
  • Experience in using configuration management tools such as Ansible and Chef
  • Experience of using infrastructure as code tools like CloudFormation and Terraform 
  • Experience with relational database systems (MySQL and Postgres)
  • Working knowledge of Elasticsearch with Logstash or Fluentd.
  • Experience with Docker, and knowledge or experience of container orchestration tools such as AWS ECS and Kubernetes.
  • Experience at debugging multi-tier architecture systems using the relevant tools, such as APM and RUM 
  • Strong Linux system administration skills (Ubuntu and CoreOS Container Linux)
  • Ability to script in bash and at least one high level language (Ruby, Python etc)
  • Knowledge of security frameworks to produce secure platforms for protected data ready for GDPR and other global requirements. 
  • Knowledge of security products like WAF and IDS to provide cover to web based applications with data needing to be secure 
  • Excellent understanding of TCP/IP networking
  • Excellent understanding of HTTP(S) as a protocol, and also optimization and security best practices for web applications.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment 
  • Great written and verbal communication skills.  
  • Ability to speak a second  language  would  be highly advantageous.  
  • Experience of working within the publishing, media, or advertising sector.