Cloud Engineer - job 2 of 2

Your mission

We’re driven to improve communication for critical healthcare workers and to reduce their administrative burden. Our target user base of over 1.5 million staff in the UK treat over 1 million patients every 36 hours.

Your profile

The Role

You will lead on all aspects relating to definition, development and maintenance of the AWS architecture and the associated management systems, platforms and tools, reporting directly to the CTO.

You should be enthusiastic about the opportunity to collaborate with our Information Security Manager and VP of Engineering to ensure our infrastructure is secure by design.

You will contribute to the definition of new products and the future implementation of the cloud data platform to support machine learning and advanced data analytics.

Salary: £50k - £75k

Requirements

• Experience of leading the delivery, management and improvement of critical cloud systems

• Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies and current computing trends

• Extensive knowledge of architecting and managing critical cloud environments in AWS, you are likely to have an AWS Solutions Architect certification

• Solid grasp of enterprise security practices, relational databases and SQL

• An in-depth understanding of database systems and associated schema including efficiency / cost tradeoffs

• Knowledge of delivering efficiency through automation and orchestration (for example Terraform and Ansible)

• Networking experience, firewalls, VPNs, LAN/WAN, OSI, TCP/IP, File Transfer Protocols, Telnet and Secure Shell, Load balancer, DNS, and DHCP, among others

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or closely related subject; an advanced degree would be even better

• 5+ years in a cloud infrastructure role

Beneficial Extras

• Additional AWS certification in speciality domains

• Experience with Active Directory

• Experience in defining and creating advanced data architectures

Key skills and proficiencies

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated cloud reports to senior management and stakeholders

• Good leadership skills

• Comfortable dealing with senior stakeholders

• Excellent complex problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• High level of technical competency

• Good time keeping and deadline management

Why us?

Working at Alertive provides the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the future of healthcare delivery. Our internal target for 2022 is to help the NHS redirect 1 million hours currently spent on inefficient communication to improved patient care. You will be an important part of delivering this.

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We are a remote-first company, with the majority of our team working remotely full time with the ability to connect with colleagues at either of our two co-working spaces in London and Derby. Virtual team meetings are typically weekly with Company catchups monthly.

Our benefits include private healthcare, attractive pension and life-insurance cover and other health and wellness support and retail offers and discounts.

We have a streamlined interview process that reflects how we like to work:

Initial introductory interview (30 mins)

Second interview - background and technical (90 mins)

Final interview - feedback/ check-in (30 mins)

Alertive build mobile and desktop applications that simplify teamwork for critical care workers, connecting them with relevant colleagues and the patient information required to make decisions, at the point of care.

Developed in partnership with our NHS Trust partners, our integrated communication and workflow products help speed up treatment, improve staff efficiency and reduce clinical risk.

We share a unified purpose with our customers which is to reduce the burden of staying coordinated and dealing with administrative tasks so that more time can be spent delivering patient care.

Our values are:

Clear communication is essential to being understood.

Innovation partners means we move forward together

Resilience leads to achieving what is worthwhile.

Humility and willingness to listen and learn builds respectful relationships.

Diversity of strengths, ideas and backgrounds enriches us.