Cloud Technical Architect / Data Devops Engineer

We have a brand-new opportunity for a bright, driven, customer focussed professional to join our Hybrid Cloud ‘Delivery’ team, and work alongside our Enterprise Data Engineering consultants to accelerate and drive data engineering opportunities.

The Advisory and Professional Services (A&PS) delivery team within HPE Pointnext Services is responsible for bringing thought-leadership, industry know-how and technical excellence to consultative engagements. Helping customers to reap maximum business benefit from their technical investments, leveraging best in class HPE and Partner technologies to create relevant and effective business-valued technical solutions.

What is on offer?

This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic individual with big ambitions, who is an established technologist with both outstanding technical ability and consultative mindset. As an open-minded personable self-starter who relishes the fluidity and collaborative nature of consultancy, you are comfortable working independently or as part of a team, effortlessly context switching as required.

You will be joining HPE in order to provide clients with the optimal consultative service and experience, resulting in business outcomes that meeting core client values and business requirements.

Extensive social benefits, flexible working hours, a competitive salary and shared values, make Hewlett Packard Enterprise one of the world's most attractive employers. At HPE our goal is to provide equal opportunities, work-life balance, and constantly evolving career opportunities.

If you are looking for challenges in a fast paced, thriving, international work environment, then we definitely want to hear from you!

As a Data DevOps Engineer​, you will be responsible for:

The Data DevOps Engineer role is all about the detailed development and implementation of scalable clustered Big Data solutions, with a specific focus on automated dynamic scaling, self-healing systems.

• Participating in the full lifecycle of data solution development, from requirements engineering through to continuous optimisation engineering and all the typical activities in between

• Providing technical thought-leadership and advisory on technologies and processes at the core of the data domain, as well as data domain adjacent technologies

• Engaging and collaborating with both internal and external teams and be a confident participant as well as a leader

• Assisting with solution improvement activities driven either by the project or service

To excel in this very technical role, you will need to have:

• An organised and methodical approach

• Excellent time keeping and task prioritisation skills

• An ability to provide clear and concise updates

• An ability to convey technical concepts to all levels of audience

• Data engineering skills – ETL/ELT

• Technical implementation skills – application of industry best practices & designs patterns

• Technical advisory skills – experience in researching technological products / services with the intent to provide advice on system improvements 

• Experience of working in hybrid environments with both classical and DevOps

• Excellent written & spoken English skills

The following Technical skills & experience are required for Data Devops Engineer:

• Excellent knowledge of Linux operating system administration and implementation

• Broad understanding of the containerisation domain adjacent technologies/services, such as: Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes etc.

• Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD paradigms and systems such as: Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Bamboo, Concourse etc.

• Monitoring utilising products such as: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, filebeat etc.

• Observability - SRE

• Big Data solutions (ecosystems) and technologies such as: Apache Spark and the Hadoop Ecosystem

• Edge technologies e.g. NGINX, HAProxy etc.

• Excellent knowledge of YAML or similar languages

The following Technical Skills & Experience would be desirable for Data Devops Engineer:

• Jupyter Hub  Awareness

• Minio or similar S3 storage technology

• Trino / Presto

• RabbitMQ or other common queue technology e.g. ActiveMQ

• NiFi

• Rego

• Familiarity with code development, shell-scripting in Python, Bash etc.

As a Cloud Technical Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Support the design and development of new capabilities, preparing solution options, investigating technology, designing and running proof of concepts, providing assessments, advice and solution options, providing high level and low level design documentation.
• Cloud Engineering capability to leverage Public Cloud platform using automated build processes deployed using Infrastructure as Code.
• Provide technical challenge and assurance throughout development and delivery of work.
• Develop re-useable common solutions and patterns to reduce development lead times, improve commonality and lowering Total Cost of Ownership.
• Work independently and/or within a team using a DevOps way of working.

To excel in the Cloud Technical Architect role, you will need to have:

• An organised and methodical approach.
• Excellent time keeping skills.
• An ability to provide clear and concise updates.
• An ability to convey technical concepts to all levels of audience.
• Excellent written & spoken English skills.

The following Technical skills & experience are required for Cloud Technical Architect:

• Experienced in Cloud native technologies in AWS.
• Experienced in deploying IaaS/PaaS in Multi Cloud Environments.
• Experienced in Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering building and testing new capabilities, and supporting the development of new solutions and common templates.
• Experienced in being able to act as bridge from the infrastructure through to user facing systems.

The following Technical Skills & Experience would be desirable for Cloud Technical Architect:

• Experienced in Kubernetes Containers.
• Experienced in the use of Automation tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Foreman, Puppet and Python.
• Experienced in different flavours of Linux platform and services.

Proactive Prerequisite Role Restrictions:

• Must hold National Security Clearance Level 04 Developed Vetting (DV) - UKIC

• We are looking for high achievers who are eligible to work in the UK.

• The role will be based on the client site, there is no remote or hybrid wor