Principal Cloud Engineer

Compensation £80,000 - £100,000 Base + Performance Related Bonus + Benefits TL;DR

• Principal/Staff level Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role
• No visa sponsorship available currently
• Fast growing technology consultancy specialising in the energy sector, based in the UK
• Must have AWS and Azure cloud experience to architect level
• Must have certifications in either AWS or Azure
• No direct line management requirement (unless desired)
• Experience working in consultancy is a bonus
• Experience working in Energy is a bonus

Who are we? Hypercube Consulting is the leading technology partner for the energy sector, specialising in cutting-edge cloud and AI solutions. We're building a world-class team of experts with deep domain knowledge in all things energy. To understand more about who we are and what we do, visit out website here: To get a better understanding of how we think and some of the ways we work, check out our founder’s blog here: 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 has a lot of cloud architecture and infrastructure experience. 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 and delivery teams and will guide the ongoing technology 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 solutions for our customers - built with modern tools across the open source and cloud platform landscape. You'll have to get stuck into the end-to-end cloud infrastructure development workflow - everything from requirements gathering to deploying complex platform solutions. 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 infrastructure 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

• Work with developers, managers, and business stakeholders to understand and define components of the technology landscape and how it relates to the business strategy
• Contribution to Hypercube’s blog and other outreach efforts
• Helping to grow both our internal knowledge and skillsets as we scale
• Provide technical leadership to a team of cloud engineers delivering Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud solutions
• Understand customer business requirements and translate these into a design for effective cloud infrastructure solutions to meet the requirements
• Architect end-to-end cloud infrastructure solutions using Azure and AWS services producing high-level and low-level design documents
• Lead cloud infrastructure workstreams as part of cross-team projects
• Produce high quality communications and presentations of cloud infrastructure solutions to prospects, customers, and colleagues
• Understand at a technical level the latest developments in cloud infrastructure services in Azure and AWS with a view to incorporating these into current or future service offerings
• Be the technical point of last resort to resolve the most difficult support issues that require principal cloud engineer involvement and co-ordinate change to processes if required to reduce the likelihood of re-occurrence
• Ensure the continuous improvement for build processes and operational customer documentation
• Participate in pre-sales engagements to develop high quality sales proposals and take the lead when describing the solution and ensuring the scope, assumptions and cost estimates are correct.
• Subject matter expert and evangelist for all cloud infrastructure technologies both within Incremental and its customers
• Work closely with the delivery teams to ensure all technical aspects of a project are being done on time and on budget and issues resolved quickly
• Undertake all mandatory company training within the timescales provided

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 who 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 platform experience with both AWS and Azure
• Certifications with either AWS or Azure essential
• CI/CD, DevOps
• Core networking, security, server, virtualisation, and active directory technologies
• Authentication, Authorisation, Conditional Access, AD Connect
• Scripting – PowerShell, Azure CLI, AWS CDK, JSON.
• Storage - AWS S3, Azure Files, and Azure Storage.
• Virtual Machines
• Monitoring, log analytics
• Security
• Backups, Site Recovery, Migration
• Networking and Firewalls
• SQL security, backup, recovery, resilience

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

• Docker, Kubernetes and container services
• Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance
• Microsoft 365 Endpoint Management
• Microsoft 365 Exchange Online
• Microsoft SharePoint Online
• Microsoft OneDrive for Business.

Other desirable skills and experience

• Ability to act as a driving force in a growing data and analytics consultancy
• Building projects or sharing knowledge in public – whether that be contributing to open source, blogging, YouTube, content creation, speaking at events, or similar.
• Strong stakeholder management
• Experience translating difficult business questions and designs of data solutions into action
• Analysis/requirements gathering, solution design, and implementation of cloud platform solutions
• Experience in collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams, including software engineers, DevOps and engineering teams, data scientists etc.
• Experience in working with data and AI systems in a production cloud environment
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal – able to translate complex technical subject matter into easily understood presentations and written documentation for mixed technical audiences.

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
• Training and events budget
• Mentorship programmes

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 age, 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.