Cloud Engineer III

Business Insider is hiring a Cloud Engineer III to join our Cloud Engineering team dedicated to building and supporting scalable, secure and resilient infrastructure in AWS and other cloud providers.

Business Insider is for people who are driven, optimistic and always looking forward. Our mission is to inspire action through thought-provoking stories. We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible, smart, sometimes unexpected, and always helpful. Our team members embody and uphold Business Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we get better every day.

Our Cloud Engineering team is one of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

The Role & Team:

As a Cloud Engineer, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and optimisation of our cloud infrastructure, playing a pivotal role in the ongoing success of our tech teams, our writers and editors and the readership of the largest business news site in the world.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the effectiveness of our DevOps culture, troubleshoot application and system issues and add minimal complexity to monitor, deploy and scale our continuously growing environment.

This role reports directly to the Director of Cloud Engineering and sits on the Cloud Engineering Team. This role will be based in Belfast and offers an in office or work from home / hybrid opportunity. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on the design and implementation of scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS.
• Managing and enhancing our global AWS services and infrastructure, adhering to security best practices.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to foster an effective DevOps culture.
• Troubleshooting application and system issues in collaboration with feature team engineers, communicating status to the broader team.
• Implementing minimal complexity to monitor, deploy, and scale a continuously growing environment.

The Ideal Candidate Has:

• Demonstrable knowledge of building and supporting cloud applications at scale.
• A positive attitude and ability to contribute effectively to discussions.
• Professional experience with AWS and Elastic Kubernetes Service.
• A high degree of comfort in deploying cloud native applications using Terraform and Kubernetes and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies.
• Proficiency in coding in a modern programming language.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.

Salary & Benefits:

• Market leading salary (dependent on skills, experience, and competencies)
• Hybrid flexible working - our amazing City Centre office or your home, the choice is yours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Unrivalled culture and working environment with regular socials and company events
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health cash plan 
• Life assurance 
• Employee assistance programme
• Highly competitive family leave policies and access to our family benefits platform, Maven, offering support for employee preconception, pregnancy & postpartum.

Business Insider is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and, when making employment  decisions, does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality or national origin, religion, disability, familial status, and military or veteran status. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented groups to apply.

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