Senior Cloud Engineer (Logging and Monitoring)

Are you an experienced Cloud Engineer with the ability to adapt and thrive in a continually evolving cloud platform environment? Do you have a strong aptitude for problem-solving and service optimisation? Are your strengths rooted in leadership, shared ownership, collaboration, and a commitment to achieving and maintaining high-quality standards?

Social Security Scotland, are looking to recruit a Senior Cloud Engineer to help develop and maintain our Elasticsearch logging, monitoring and alerting platform which is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) division is responsible for delivering the infrastructure, capability and digital solutions that will support Social Security Scotland.

The Senior Cloud Engineer role will be within the Engineering and Cloud service branch - focussed on delivering a roadmap of observability requirements in our Elasticsearch and AWS estate. There will be regular interaction with colleagues in the CDO Architecture team, Cyber Security Team, Applications Development teams and a number of suppliers involved in the provision of the Division's software and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in leading a multi-disciplinary team that have responsibility for delivery and support of enterprise level services. You will be proactive in responding and anticipating sudden changes to business priorities, and addressing wider strategic priorities.

Social Security Scotland, an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government, is undertaking the largest and most complex IT and digital change programme since devolution. With a lifetime budget of over £300m, Social Security Scotland is delivering a social security system that will support the people of Scotland for decades to come.

We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland, a positive and inclusive culture, which supports our people to flourish, by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect, and recognise each other's contributions.

A lead infrastructure operations engineer (Senior Cloud Engineer) supports, manages and maintains the core infrastructure that underpins production services.

At this role level, you will:

• manage operational support of IT solutions and services
• manage workload, performance and development of a team of IT operations specialists by building capability to deliver services as required
• manage third party provision of IT operations services
• manage provision of expertise to programmes and projects
• manage the development of architectural solutions for IT operations solutions, throughout the service life cycle