Cloud Engineer

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At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

• Helps teams adopt cloud infrastructure and platform services by contributing to design and implementation activities that deliver new or improved cloud capabilities. Brings expertise in areas such as cloud technical architecture (IaaS and PaaS), automation of management tasks, provisioning, configuration management, and optimization of cloud solutions;
• Successful outcomes involve infrastructure-as-code (IaC), DevOps, Agile practices, and automation, supported by strong networking and security knowledge. The role engages directly with customer teams and works on platform capabilities spanning multiple teams, collaborating closely with architects, developers, SREs, security, and network specialists. Being a team player and willing to lead initiatives is essential;
• Supports complex operational concerns (deployment, incident/problem management, availability, capacity, service continuity) and demonstrates attention to detail and a customer-centric mindset. Qualities such as curiosity, determination, creativity, and strong communication are important;
• The position is remote/on-site with up to 40% travel;
• Provide expert knowledge to translate cloud strategy into secure, resilient implementations;
• Offer thought leadership in Compute and Data; support architects with requirements analysis, design, prototyping, testing, and implementation;
• Work on cloud migration projects, including planning, execution, and support readiness;
• Design, build, and improve infrastructure solutions using automation strategies (IaC, CI/CD, policy-as-code) and collaborative practices (DevOps);
• Research and prototype tools to enhance platform capabilities; mentor others to improve outcomes through automation;
• Improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency; assist with nonfunctional requirements (security, DR, monitoring);
• Provide subject matter expertise for approved IaaS/PaaS services; respond to escalated incidents; build reusable artifacts;
• Participate in organizational learning (COEs, hackathons, mentoring) and continuous improvement;
• Engage in planning and optimization (capacity, reliability, cost, performance);
• Work with security specialists on controls and compliance; establish logging, monitoring, and observability;
• Optimize integration across single, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments; communicate pros/cons of cloud solutions;
• Collaborate with third-party suppliers and lead problem management activities, including post-mortem analysis and resilience testing.

Who you are

• Experience with these cloud provider services is essential: AWS, Azure;
• DevOps-tooling such as CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps/ADO, TeamCity, GitHub,GitLab);
• Infrastructure-as-code approaches, role-specific automation tools and associated programming languagesAnsible, Terraform, Packer;
• Knowledge of software development frameworks/Languages: Python;
• Container management: Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, EKS;
• Virtualization platforms: VMware;
• Operating systems: Windows and Linux including scripting experience;
• Database technologies and caching: Postgres, Oracle, MSSQL, NoSQL, Redis, CDN, Mongo;
• Identity and access management: Active Directory/Azure AD;
• Monitoring tools: AWS CloudWatch, Elastic Stack (Elastic Search/Logstash/Kibana), Grafana, Loki;
• Cloud networking Subnetting, Route Tables, Security Groups, VPC, VPC Peering, NACLS, VPN, TransitGateways, optimizing for egress costs;
• Cloud security key management services, encryption, other core security services/controls theorganization uses;
• Scalable architectures, including APIs, microservices and PaaS;
• Analyzing cloud spending and optimizing resources;
• Implementing resilience (e.g., multi-AZ, multi-region, backup and recovery tools);
• Cloud provider frameworks (e.g., Well-Architected);
• Working with architecture tools and associated artifacts;
• Fluency in English.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

• Hybrid Work Model - Flexible hybrid work model with 8-10 in-office days per month, managed by team leaders;
• Vodafone Products and Services - Employees get a mobile phone, free communication plan, data card, and various discounts on services and products;
• Recognition - Recognition programs for innovative, creative, high-potential employees and exemplary behaviors;
• Health and Well-being - Well-being Program offers nutrition and psychological consultations, webinars, workshops, and discounts on various services and products;
• Learning - Access to Communities of Practice and a customizable digital training platform with high-quality content (namely Harvard Business Publishing, Skillsoft and Speexx);
• Local and International Mobility - Internal recruitment with local and international rotation opportunities across departments and roles. 

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.