AWS Cloud Consultant

We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customer's businesses". We work hard to ensure we understand what our customers need from their technology solutions and then we deliver.

We are an award-winning company who provide world class customer service; we think big and we hire great people. Version 1 are more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies.

Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you.

• Support multiple clients across multiple technologies
• Mentoring of junior team members.
• Consult with customers and across a cross-team environment.
• Documentation and development of designs, processes and procedures.
• Work within a structured ITIL / ISO20000 IT Service Management environment.
• Works directly with client to gather requirements, design solutions, build proof of concepts and implement solutions.
• Excellent presentation and reporting skills arising from customer facing and on-site experience.
• Very strong verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required.
• Project management skills with experience in stakeholder and communications management.
• Escalation point for major incidents/investigations.

• 5+ years working in IT
• Strong, first-hand experience of designing, building and supporting Enterprise solutions.
• Experience in the full product lifecycle including: Concept generation, Design, Build and Support essential.
• Interpreting, understanding and solving complex technical problems/incidents
• Managed Services/Consultancy/project delivery experience with client facing background
• Strong experience across multi-server, stand alone and clustered solutions.
• Proven experience working with cloud technologies. E.g. AWS/Azure/OCI
• Excellent troubleshooting skills required.

Technical Skills

• AWS Solutions Architect or SysOps Admin Certification essential
• Infrastructure as Code automation experience essential: Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etc
• AWS core services, including: Compute and Networking, Storage and CDN, Database on EC2/RDS, Application Services, Deployment and Management
• Network technologies as they relate to AWS networking, including: Route53 and load balancing, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and AWS Direct Connect
• Strong technical Linux experience - Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) preferred
• Good broad technical knowledge across Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud etc)
• ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
• Strong experience in Cloud deployments (Public & Private)
• Disaster recovery and site replication solutions experience

Desirable Skills

• DevOps and automation experience.
• NextGen monitoring experience would be valuable, e.g. DataDog, NewRelic etc
• GitHub experience
• Any private cloud experience would be valued.  E.g. VMWare, HyperV, HP-UX
• Webserver (e.g. Nginx, Apache)
• Experience on SAN/Storage solutions
• Exposure to ServiceNow
• Networking concepts including routing tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, OSI model
• Other Public Cloud experience such as Oracle Cloud.
• Experience with backup technologies (e.g. Veeam, Data Protector, CommVault)

**Candidates must be eligible for UK Security Clearance 

Version 1 Talent Acquisition Team