Cloud Engineer

Compensation

£40,000 - £50,000 Base + Performance Related Bonus + Benefits

All candidates should make sure to read the following job description and information carefully before applying.

Who are we?

Hypercube Consulting is the cloud, data, and AI consulting company for the energy sector. We're building a world-class team of technology experts with deep domain knowledge in all things energy.

To understand more about who we are and what we do, visit our website here:

Hypercube | AI | Data Science | Data Strategy | Data Engineering - Unlocking the power of data and AI for the energy sector

To get a better understanding of how we think and some of the ways we work, check out our founder’s blog here: https://aesroka.substack.com

Role purpose

First of all - we're adaptable and interested in a mix of people to make the best team. We're currently looking for someone that fits either the typical data engineer or machine learning engineer role (or a blend).

This is an early hire for a young, fast-growing consultancy. We're looking for someone that is adaptable and driven that wants to grow with our business and have a strong say in how we shape the company.

Work with our expert data and analytics consultants to help customers deliver more value from their data.

This will be a key role in the technical delivery teams and will guide and support the ongoing data strategy and roadmap goals of our customers.

Day-to-day work will involve project delivery and collaborating with stakeholders across our internal and customer teams. Technical work will include building, testing, deploying, maintaining, packaging, and explaining cloud infrastructure, machine learning, data platform and advanced analytics solutions for our customers - built with modern tools across the open source and cloud platform landscape.

You'll spend time capturing requirements and working with the other consultants to turn them into production-grade solutions - getting value into production is our prime concern for all our engagements.

You will act as a champion and subject-matter expert for cloud engineering across the business, helping to cross-skill and upskill others.

You will also be heavily involved in the outreach and knowledge sharing that Hypercube does. We strongly believe that giving back to the community is an important part of our purpose and the best way to learn. We will help you grow your brand through speaking, blogging, or other outreach methods should you wish.

Finally, you’ll be in the driving seat to help shape and win new projects, whether that be through presales demos, meeting with prospective customers, or shaping longer-term relationships.

Accountabilities

• Develop deep technical ability across several cloud services.
• Follow best practices on cloud deployment and support.
• Provide guidance, leadership, and mentorship to apprentice and associate cloud engineers to help build cloud competencies within the team.
• Ensure system performance, uptime, security, and scalability of solutions.
• Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build, and deploy cloud solutions infrastructure at the direction of senior cloud engineers and cloud architects.
• Troubleshoot incidents, find root cause, fix, and document problems, and implement preventive measures.
• Document all work completed to company standards and looking for continuous improvement to the processes.
• Design small parts of a cloud platform and infrastructure solution and understand how they combine with others to form a complete system.
• Provide technical advice and input to technical decisions which affect your team and the wider project.
• Provide correct estimates for your work within your areas of technical ability.

Technical skills

We understand that this list is extensive – please apply if you fit some or only part of it we're flexible and are mostly looking for bright people that can adapt as the role grows. We want to see the broadest range of possible candidates from a diverse mix of backgrounds. Technical skills are only part of the equation.

Ideally, you will have hands-on experience with the following in a previous role:

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Core networking, security, server, virtualisation, and active directory technologies.
• Azure Active Directory – Authentication, Authorisation, Conditional Access, AD Connect.
• Scripting – PowerShell, Azure CLI, JSON.
• Azure Files and Azure Storage.
• Azure Virtual Machines.
• Azure Monitor, Azure log analytics, Kusto Query Language.
• Azure SIEM, Azure Security Center.
• Azure Backups, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate.
• Azure Networking and Firewalls.
• Azure SQL security, backup, recovery, resilience.

Additional experience with the following would be beneficial, but not essential:

• Infrastructure as code.
• Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance.
• Microsoft 365 Endpoint Management.
• Microsoft 365 Exchange Online.
• Microsoft SharePoint Online.
• Microsoft OneDrive for Business.
• Containers and related services (AKS, Container Registry)
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Testing

Other desirable skills and experience

• Technical mentoring for apprentice and associate cloud engineers.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to adhere to documentation standards.
• Continuous learning and development through on the job and self-study combined with achieving certifications relevant to the Business Unit strategy.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities and ability to get to the root cause quickly, and guide apprentice and associate cloud engineers in these skills.
• Ability to act as a driving force in a growing technology consultancy
• Building projects or sharing knowledge in public – whether that be contributing to open source, blogging, YouTube, content creation, speaking at events, or similar.
• Experience in collaborating in multidisciplinary teams, including software engineers, DevOps and infrastructure teams, data scientists etc.

What’s in it for you?

Hypercube is a young, growing data and analytics consultancy that aims to bring in the best possible talent to solve the most interesting challenges for our customers. We’re willing to do what it takes to secure the best possible people. We want to build a world-class team.

You’ll be one of the earliest hires for our organisation and, therefore, will have a huge impact on the culture and how it is shaped. You’ll have the chance to influence decisions in a fast-paced start-up and grow with the organisation.

You'll have direct access to our existing team of experienced data and analytics leaders and their wider network.

You’ll also be helped to grow your own brand as you contribute to the outward-facing aspects of this business.

Benefits

• Pension
• Performance related bonus
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexible working
• Events and community
• Private health insurance
• Health cash plan
• EV leasing scheme (soon!)
• Training and events budget
• Mentorship programmes
• and more to come (we're exploring some cool stuff, watch this space)

IMPORTANT!!

Hypercube is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive employee environment which is as representative as possible of our society. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any personal characteristic such as, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, nationality, religion or belief, gender, and sexual orientation.

Finally, we would consider part-time, condensed hours, job-share, and other flexible arrangements to secure the absolute best people. If in doubt, please ask, and we'll see how to make it work.