Administration

• Manage the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of cloud resources including virtual machines, databases, networks, and storage.
• Monitor and maintain cloud environments to ensure optimal performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
• Implement and maintain backup and disaster recovery strategies across all cloud systems.
• Implement and enforce cloud security policies, access controls, and identity management using IAM tools.
• Conduct regular security audits and ensure compliance with internal policies and industry standards (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR).
• Collaborate with Information Security teams to manage encryption, data protection, and security incident response.
• Leverage automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) to streamline deployment, configuration, and maintenance processes.
• Monitor cloud usage and spending, identifying opportunities for optimisation and cost reduction.
• Maintain documentation and version control for all cloud configurations and infrastructure as code (IaC) artefacts.
• Configure and manage cloud monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or equivalent).
• Proactively identify and resolve performance, connectivity, or configuration issues.
• Establish alerting mechanisms and incident management workflows for cloud operations.
• Work closely with IT Operations, DevOps, and Application Development teams to support infrastructure needs.
• Provide technical support, guidance, and training to internal teams on cloud technologies and best practices.
• Assist in cloud project planning and the continuous improvement of cloud operations processes.
• Manage your own workloads and ensure all committed work is completed within the iteration as per the item’s definition of done.
• Ensure all Work Items have appropriate test coverage and that it is integrated into the release process. Provide expertise for the team to achieve a higher level of test and code deployment automation.
• Attend CAB meetings as necessary and follow Gain’s Change and Release process for Deployments.
• Adopt and enhance CI/CD processes tooling for automated deployments of both infrastructure and applications.
• Adhere to all Information Security policies as necessary implementing security by design in all developments.
• Collaborate with the development and software support teams to communicate infrastructure requirements.

Cloud Administrator

Senior Solaris Administrator