Technical Expert - Hybrid Cloud Specialist

The role

As a hybrid cloud engineering you will enable academic endeavours by delivering high-level professional expertise and carrying out sophisticated techniques.  Interpret, evaluate and present data from outputs based on expert knowledge in area of practice.

This role demands a high level of expertise in both public and on-premises cloud environments, focusing on creating, managing, and optimizing cloud solutions that support business objectives of the JOINER project. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS and VMware, deep knowledge of hybrid clouds including the network design and full familiarity with on-premises open-source cloud solutions like OpenStack.

What will you be doing?

You will provision of specialist solutions within hybrid cloud computing including both public cloud providers and on-premises clouds; typical duties might include:

• Using high-level expertise, collaborate with key stakeholders including Principal Investigators, researchers, external customers, or other service users to deliver specialist technical services.
• Develop creative and innovative solutions in area of expertise, to advance research methods and practices.
• Operate, service, maintain and develop JOINER hybrid cloud environment to support experimental research; diagnose and rectify complex problems to find short and long-term solutions.
• Evaluate, interpret, analyse, and present complex data from outputs
• Contribute to wider developments and changes in the JOINER hybrid cloud environment.
• Design, build and/or adapt specialist architectures and functions to provide innovative solutions.
• Expert technical input into specialist purchases, liaise with relevant contacts and suppliers to ensure fit for purpose solutions and cost effectiveness.
• Contribute to or lead on grant applications.
• Write risk assessments and method statements/standard operating procedures (SOPs), or provide guidance to service users, ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines.
• Share professional expertise and contribute to knowledge exchange in specialist field.

You should apply if

• If you have extensive experience in the specific area of practice including:
• Multitenancy concepts in both On-prem and public cloud
• Virtualization & On-Prem Cloud (VMware) including:
• vSphere/ESXi, vCenter Server, NSX, vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation, TCA, vCloud Director, VMware Load Balancers, VMware Tanzu.
• Public Cloud (AWS) including:
• Core AWS Services: Landing zone and Control tower, VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS, etc.
• Networking: VPC peering, VPNs, Direct Connect, Route Tables, NAT Gateway, Security Groups.
• Security & Identity: IAM policies, roles, federation, AWS Organizations, KMS.
• Automation: CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform (if using infrastructure-as-code).
• Cost Management: Budgets, Cost Explorer, Reserved Instances, tagging strategy.
• Strong skills in creating and maintaining design documentation.

Please evidence the above in your cover letter.

Additional information

For informal queries please contact: Ildi Fogel - ildiko.fogel@bristol.ac.uk and joiner-project@bristol.ac.uk

To find out more about what it's like to work in the Faculty of Engineering, and how the Faculty supports people to achieve their potential, please see our staff blog: https://engineering.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/category/engineering-includes-me/

Interview are expected to take place between the 25th and 30th June.

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