Cloud Engineer

Overview

Cloud Engineer

Location: Wakefield UK

The Cloud Engineer will work collaboratively within Aptean's Cloud Teams, reporting directly to the International Tech Hub Manager. They will mentor other team members in the development, deployment, and ongoing monitoring and support of environments for our customers. They will have opportunities to be involved at all stages of a project - covering requirements, cloud services deployment, security and compliance, systems engineering and operational readiness. They will develop and test cloud infrastructure disaster recovery plans before handing off to the appropriate cloud department for annual scheduling. They will bring knowledge of core AWS and Azure services and experience performing systems engineering tasks as part of a project team.

Duties / Scope

• The Cloud Engineer applies broad expertise or unique knowledge to contribute and develop company objectives and principles, aiming to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
• Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results; act independently on new or special assignments and mentor others.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the cloud infrastructures for Aptean's Business Systems, Applications, High Availability, and BAU.
• Continuously examine and re-evaluate existing systems to provide efficiencies within the cloud infrastructures.
• Maintain an efficient environment to keep BAU costs to a minimum.
• Collaborate with other teams (R&D, Support, Professional Services) to identify areas of improvement.
• Support the associated product as a 3rd Line Product Expert, helping to meet SLAs.
• Work as a key technical contact within a product team of three and as part of a wider European team of 15+ engineers; expand cloud infrastructure knowledge and skillset.

Prerequisites

You will need at least 2 years' experience with cloud infrastructures, their configuration, monitoring and maintenance.

Technical Essential

• Networking & Networking Administration
• Internal & External DNS
• Incident Management
• Windows Operating Systems (2016, 2019, 2022, 2025)
• Technical Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
• Azure Cloud / Virtualisation Infrastructure Management
• Share Knowledge and Best Practice with Peers

Technical Optional

• Microsoft Web Server (IIS) Administration
• Microsoft SQL Server Administration and Scripting
• PowerShell scripting
• Load Balancer Configuration
• Server Monitoring
• Linux Operating Systems (RH9, CentOS, Debian)
• AWS Cloud / Virtualisation Infrastructure Management

Personal Essential

• You will need to be a good communicator as you will be liaising with a varied range of positions from the ground up to Senior Manager levels, and working as part of a large engineering team; you will require good interpersonal skills.
• Methodical approach to scheduling and running meetings; good understanding of both technical and project documentation.
• Good Time Management skills.
• Your documentation skills will need to be on point as you may be involved in, and understand: Technical Schematics; Infrastructure Design; Native and bespoke cloud systems; Share Knowledge and Best Practice with Peers.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean's ERP and supply chain management solutions help address challenges facing manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Our compliance solutions are built for markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals. Aptean serves over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries.

"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." - TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.