Cloud Platform Engineer

• Devops cand is leaving at the end of the month
• More infra architect – but more technical
• Still hands on – cloud implementation, but foot in solution architect role
• Key is hands on building of a cloud – need design and hands on
• Shawn is pure design – design
• Azure & AWS – focus on AWS
• Talking to Dave – Technical Director –
• Ideally to move from tech hands on into an architect – more junior end
• Carlisle and Exeter – beyond 2 hours – within 1 hour
• Ansible and Terraform
• Red hat extensive
• Openshift cluster
• Good if some understanding of automation
• Quite customer facing – working with Shawn – and build out architecute frameworks
• 1 / 2 projects
• Some internal work – test and development environments
• Common spaces that
• Person leaving on £68k – wants to give us a guide
• 2pm weds

 

MACS is a specialist IT consultancy providing professional services around enterprise IBM platforms, including infrastructure, asset management and facilities-management solutions. They support customers with solution design, implementation, integration, upgrades and ongoing technical delivery across cloud and hybrid environments.

• IBM Maximo Application Suite – enterprise asset management and maintenance.
• IBM TRIRIGA – facilities, workplace and real-estate management.
• IBM Control Desk, now generally positioned as Maximo IT – IT service and IT asset management.
• IBM Envizi – sustainability and environmental data management.

 

It’s a client-facing Cloud Platform Consultant role, combining solution design and architecture with hands-on delivery across cloud, hybrid and infrastructure projects. You’d work on secure customer environments, supporting the infrastructure behind enterprise IBM platforms such as Maximo and TRIRIGA, with a strong focus on AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Linux and container technologies.

 

Core technologies

The strongest technical areas are:

• AWS — especially VPCs, IAM, EC2, networking, monitoring, resilience and secure infrastructure design. - have you designed and built and AWS environment?
• Azure — useful, but AWS sounds like the preference rather than both being mandatory.
• Linux, ideally Red Hat.
• OpenShift and Kubernetes — cluster build, configuration and troubleshooting. - have you built and configured? or mainly deployed applications?
• Terraform — creating modules and provisioning environments, not just running existing code. - created from scratch
• Ansible — building roles/playbooks and automating server or platform configuration. - what have you configured?
• Hybrid infrastructure — connecting cloud to on-premise environments.
• Security and networking — IAM, VPNs, DNS, certificates, encryption, hardening, firewalls and zero-trust principles.
• CI/CD and monitoring — Jenkins/GitLab and tools such as CloudWatch or Grafana.
• Architecture documentation including HLDs, LLDs, design decisions and operational handover material.

 

MACS mainly works with asset-intensive organisations—businesses and public bodies with large estates, equipment fleets, infrastructure or facilities to manage.

Their main markets are:

• Government and defence, including work with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Facilities management and property/estates
• Manufacturing
• Transport
• Utilities
• Oil and gas
• Healthcare
• Life sciences

The common thread is organisations using platforms such as IBM Maximo and TRIRIGA to manage physical assets, maintenance, facilities, property and operational infrastructure