Job Specifications
Janes empowers military, government, and defence leaders to act with confidence in an increasingly complex world. Our trusted defence, security, and geopolitical information delivered through seamless digital platforms and system integrations--turns overwhelming data into clear, actionable intelligence and insight. By filling critical information gaps, Janes helps customers analyse threats, accelerate decisions, and stay ahead of emerging challenges.
Job purpose:
The primary purpose of the Cloud Engineer is to ensure that Janes remains safe and secure in the cloud through management and ongoing improvement of our multi-account AWS environment. The role sits in the Platform Team, comprising five engineers reporting to the Architecture Director, with a day-to-day focus on core services like network, backup, monitoring, security and governance.
Where required, the role extends into each of our four Service Teams to ensure standards are adopted, appropriate resources are being used to deliver value to our customers, while being operationally resilient, secure and cost effective. The Cloud Engineer is primarily a hands-on role, but there are important design, documentation and communication expectations due to regular engagement with senior stakeholders, as well as day-to-day relationships with Service Teams.
How you will contribute at Janes:
Design, build, operate and monitor our core cloud infrastructure
Maintain IaC codebases for platform and common services to be used by service teams.
Adopt an environment of continuous improvement for security, resilience and cost.
Ensure services are appropriately patched and maintained to minimise vulnerabilities.
Ensure standards are adopted across Service Teams.
Mentor and support Service Teams on appropriate use of cloud resources.
Contribute to service management processes covering change control, incident management and DR.
Operate in a fast-paced agile environment, balancing an operational mindset with the need to deliver.
The ideal skills and experience for this role are:
Extensive cloud experience, with 5+ years AWS and an appreciation of Azure services.
Experience operating at an organisation-level in a complex multi-account architecture.
In-depth infrastructure experience across network, backup, observability, security and governance.
Experience at managing security of systems in line with ISO27001, Cyber essentials or NIST standards.
In-depth experience with Identity and Access Management, including Privileged Access
In-depth experience with Terraform, IaC and associated pipeline management.
Experience managing Windows and Linux servers and associated services, e.g. Directory Services.
Experience with cloud native, serverless architectures.
Experience with disaster recovery and service management principles and processes.
Good understanding of agile and modern software engineering and development practices.
Experience across a range of the following technologies:
CloudFront, WAF, AWS Firewall, API Gateway, Transit Gateway
AWS VPN, Zscaler ZPA, AWS Identity Centre, Microsoft Entra
AWS Backup, AWS Systems Manager, Security Hub, Guard Duty, Microsoft Defender
Windows / Linux Operating Systems and Active Directory
Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, OpenSearch, Grafana, Kinesis
Terraform, Git, CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure Devops
Lambda, EKS, ECS and EC2
DocumentDB, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, OpenSearch
EventBridge, Steps, Glue
This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing for flexibility in your work environment. We are looking for a candidate who can be based in either our Manchester or Croydon office, with a minimum requirement of 40% in-office presence. The choice of location will depend on which office is more convenient for the selected candidate.
Benefits
27 days of annual leave
Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
Leave- study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
Pension plan (6% employer contribution)
Private medical insurance - BUPA
Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)
Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks)
Life cover
Access to LinkedIn Learning
Access to an on-site gym (only in Croydon)
Our Mission:
Creating trusted open-source intelligence has always been our focus. Janes foundational defence intelligence, across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, and defence industry, is verified and validated using our human-centric tradecraft to deliver the highest levels of assurance.
While open-source data is readily available to analysts and decision makers, it can be unmanageable in structure and volume, is not assured, and can be manipulated either intentionally or unintentionally. Janes open-source intelligence is verified and validated through our Tradecraft processes within our Single Intelligence Environment (SIE). Janes uses a multi-faceted approach to open-source intelligence, developed over 120 years, with all sources assessed for bias/objectivity, reliabi
About the Company
For militaries, for governments, for global defence, Janes is the most trusted source of OSINT data and analysis. In a world increasingly flooded with unreliable information, we use technology-enhanced tradecraft and human ingenuity and expertise to provide something indispensable: Assurance. When the world's leading intelligence, military, and defence industry analysts need OSINT that's actionable, global, and shareable, they choose Janes. The world's most complete collection of open-source defence intelligence * Orders of ...
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