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Senior Cloud Engineer

Spire Healthcare Limited
Full-time
Remote
United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Description

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer| Full Time| Permanent| Remote | Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits

We are one of the UK’s leading independent hospital groups and the largest in terms of revenue. From our 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms across England, Wales, and Scotland, we provide diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care in areas including orthopaedics, gynaecology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, and general surgery. We also operate a network of private GPs and provide occupational health services to over 700 corporate clients. We are the principal independent provider by volume of knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom.

The group was founded with the acquisition and re-branding of 25 Bupa hospitals in 2007. Since then, Spire Healthcare has made significant capital investments in its estate and continues to deliver successful and award-winning clinical outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction. Spire is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250. We were the first private hospital provider to publish outcomes data on our website and we have received awards for our clinical quality and high levels of patient satisfaction.

Spire Healthcare is committed to the highest quality of patient care. Working in partnership with over 8,760 experienced consultants, we delivered tailored, personalised care to approximately 926,500 inpatients, outpatients, and day case patients in 2022.

Patients, consultants, and general practitioners trust Spire Healthcare to deliver the high-quality care they expect from a leading private healthcare provider. For us, it's more than just treating patients, it's about looking after people.

Building on recent success and growth the business is continuing to invest and we are now looking to recruit a talented and experienced Cloud Engineer with a specialization in the Azure platform to join our existing Cloud Support team. As an Engineer within our Cloud team, you will be jointly responsible for the support and maintenance of our cloud Infrastructure.  This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the continuous improvement of the infrastructure of our cloud platforms. 

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for the support and maintenance of all cloud infrastructure related resources to provide a professional, effective, and highly available service.  You will be an SME within the team for the Azure platform and will assist more junior members with advice, assistance, and recommendations.   

In this role you will also assist other members of the infrastructure teams, often being the cloud lead on projects or owning major incidents and seeing them through to resolution. 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Being one of our recognised SMEs within the Azure ecosystem.  
  • Being proactive with respect to Service Improvement for the Azure platform within Spire. 
  • Making recommendations for improvements in the Well Architected Framework pillars across the Azure platform, such as performance, cost efficiency, security, and reliability. 
  • Making Azure related recommendations for solutions to be delivered as part of various business projects within the organization. 
  • Dealing with and resolving all incidents, change and problem records logged via the Service Desk Management solution, including email to ensure that resolutions are maintained within agreed SLAs.
  • Prioritising project delivery without compromising BAU activity, both personally and across the team
  • Liaising with internal IT & business teams, including 3rd parties where necessary as part of project work
  • Closely aligning with development teams to provide technical assistance with DevOps pipelines.
  • Attending sprint and scrum meetings for related projects to work alongside development teams to deliver projects according to Spire delivery methodologies. 
  • Enforcing technical best practice 
  • Regularly conducting service reviews and proactive maintenance to ensure high levels of service availability and security. 
  • Identifying and recording of business and technical risk to the Senior Cloud team members. 

Key Requirements: 

  • Microsoft Azure qualification(s) such as AZ-104, AZ-700.  Other Azure related certifications are desirable for this role. 
  • SAFe Agile Framework experience is highly desirable. 
  • ITIL foundation would be advantageous. 
  • Microsoft MCSA / MCSE qualification(s) or equivalent would be beneficial. 
  • Azure DevOps experience is desirable. 
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience in IT support positions 
  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an Azure or cloud support position 
  • A detailed understanding and specialisation of cloud technologies 
  • Good understanding of Operating Systems, Database Infrastructure, Networking 
  • An extensive knowledge of Microsoft Azure 
  • Firm understanding of project management techniques and ability to run with project requests and manage through to completion. 
  • Demonstrable service delivery and project management skills 

Benefits:

We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

  • 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
  • Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
  • ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
  • Free wellness screening
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance

Spire Healthcare is committed to creating an environment that will attract, retain, and motivate its people. We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to the health and wellbeing of all our colleagues and consultants.

We firmly believe that it is our people that make the business successful, and everyone should have the opportunity to work in a motivated team, free from discrimination on any grounds. We, therefore, are keen to receive and review applications from all candidates of under-represented groups who feel they offer the requisite skills.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

 


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