Associate Cloud Service Engineer
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Associate Cloud Service Engineer
Application closing date: 30/03/25 at 23:59
A bit about the role…
Working within a small team of like-minded technical professionals, this role will play an essential part in operational support of our enterprise cloud technology services within the organisation to help meet its mission and goals. Being an Associate level role, you will be provided opportunities to learn and develop your skills, supported, mentored and coached by numerous colleagues.
Our current digital services are majority delivered from on-premise self-managed data centres and over the coming months and years we’ll be focusing on maturing our cloud hosting service within Microsoft Azure to support new digital services. This will cover both transformational programmes over the next 3 years and how we approach migrations for existing services and operating for the future.
Working across numerous agile multidisciplinary teams that will include Architecture, Software Engineering, Data, Security and Operations professions, you will play a part in the technical and service roadmaps that enable us to deliver excellent digital services that support Government housing policy and support of line of business systems. Specifically, you will administer the core Azure infrastructure products, work with product team staff including Software and DevOps engineers to enable them to deliver.
We’re in the early stages of our transformation, so now is a great time to join us for this opportunity to help form what will be both a challenging and fun time to be working on these changes.
A bit about you…
Having technical knowledge is great, but also being able to utilise this knowledge to its fullest is essential. Being able to work closely with colleagues within the Digital Team and across the business is critical to our success. Understanding your audiences and framing problems and solutions for their understanding is a key skill.
You will enjoy solving problems, working with stakeholders and have aspirations to grow and differentiate yourself as an expert cloud specialist.
We’re looking for the early adopters, the trend setters and people with a passion for transitioning the world from on-premise data centres into the exciting world of cloud.
Cloud experience is not a mandatory requirement – the right candidate will learn quickly but a basic foundation in system administration within Microsoft related products is required.
You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders and your discussions will be shaped by good understanding of commercial and operational impact.
Things change fast! You will be tenacious enough to keep going. We see failing fast and setbacks as learning opportunities, so we expect you to be able to embrace this to overcome challenges.
An innovative and collaborative approach to solving technical problems, appropriately challenging the status quo and managing expectations for positive outcomes.
Lastly, as this is a technical role, a role advert wouldn’t be the same without a list of some of the technical technology and discipline areas we’re looking for below. Please be aware though, often job adverts are a wish list, but I understand you may have differing strengths in these areas, my aim is to ensure we build the best team based on collaborative strengths and ensure we work on developing you in the areas needed over time.
Essential Skills / Experience...
Working knowledge of system administration
Knowledge of Linux systems
Understanding of automation
Networking & Security concepts
Desirable Skills / Experience...
Microsoft 365 knowledge and experience
Data Centre Services
Software Engineering practices
DevOps knowledge
Previous knowledge of Azure services
What we offer…
We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.
If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices.
Who are we?
We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.
We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.
Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We are all hybrid working at the moment spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities.