Lead Cloud Engineer

6 Months

Hybrid - Ad hoc office visits

Inside IR35

Role Description

The role of the IT Lead Cloud Engineer for the Cloud Platform Services Team is to build and deliver a new event-based architecture for integration and reporting within SSE Energy Trading business. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, able to undertake technical leadership and coordination of the technical development work.

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver backlog of items as part of a DevOps team.
• Design of overall solution including data highway, support/monitoring, producer adapters, consumer adapters.
• Build high quality software that complies with coding standards.
• Overseeing development work and peer reviewing.
• Accountable for operational activities within the team
• Setting standards and practices for the event hub and consumer/producer event based nodes/adapters.
• Provide support and mentorship to other members of the team

Experience

5+ years in Energy industry particularly GB Gas and Power

5 + years leading integration design using Azure Events Hubs, Kafka

5+ years developing general solutions in the Energy industry

5+ years developing integration solutions

Must Have:

C#.NET 7, Entity Framework, Microsoft ADO, SQL Server, Oracle DB, containers, event driven architecture, Kafka, Event Hubs, DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform, Automated Tests

Good to have

.NET 8, ASP.NET Blazor, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Open Telemetry, Datadog, Promethius, Grafana

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