Senior Cloud Systems Administrator - Croydon, United Kingdom - Emap

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Croydon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Business:
Metropolis International

  • Base Location: Croydon or Fleet Street/Hybrid ( 3 days from home, 2 days in the office)
  • Employment Type
    :9 Months Contract, Maternity Cover from 1st September or sooner) to May 2024
  • Salary: £ competitive
  • Visa sponsorship or remote working are not available


Trading as emap for its B2B division, Metropolis International is a fast-growing business, privately owned Media Group with over £50m of annual revenue, structured in two divisions - consumer media, and business-to-business media.

In both parts of the business, we run print magazines, digital content and both face-to-face and virtual awards, conferences and other events.

Metropolis is actively looking at acquiring more media businesses. We employ over 480 people in offices in West London, Croydon, Fleet street, Devon and Dublin.


Overall Purpose of the Role:


The Cloud Systems Administrator role is responsible for managing Metropolis/emap's public cloud systems on AWS, working closely and collaboratively with our web developers to develop and maintain deployment, monitor, tune, report, secure and the life-cycle management solutions for our hosted environments.


Responsibilities:


  • Daily administration and support of Metropolis/emap's various hosting and infrastructure environments
  • Deploying, automating, maintaining, and managing AWS cloudbased production systems, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of these systems.
  • Managing EC2 lunch configurations and autoscaling groups using a broad range of AWS technologies
  • Continuous improvement for technology and processes for our SaaS environments
  • Performing backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media or location.
  • Auditing data backups for accuracy, testing restore capabilities, have the responsibility for customer data redundancy.
  • Configure and fine tune cloud infrastructure systems and virtual cloud instances.
  • Work with suppliers and other thirdparty for daily administrations of our various hosting environments and assessing new solutions and migration during acquisitions.
  • Implementing infrastructure enhancements to improve the reliability and performance of systems.
  • Conducting routine audits of infrastructure to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, configuration, and security guidelines.
  • React to, act on, and manage incoming requests and monitoring alarms, prioritising according to business needs.
  • React to, act on requests for creation and management of all event websites, including troubleshooting and managing CNAMES
  • Support daily server and network operations including server patching, upgrades, and deployments.
  • Ensuring longterm requirements of systems operations and administration are identified and submitted for considerations to IT senior managers.

Key Results Areas:


  • Support and maintain the service infrastructure with appropriate security and privacy controls and meets users' needs.
  • Provide documentation and training materials to ensure knowledge retention.
  • Provide advice and assurance about the work of junior colleagues.
  • Deliver new functionality to service platforms, with an emphasis on platform independence, automation, and costbenefit optimisation.
  • Ensure that governance rules, particularly security standards are always upheld.
  • Ensure maximum uptime / availability of the AWS environment.
  • Monitors and communicates system performance metrics and works with internal staff and 3rd party vendors to resolve any issues.

Personal Specifications and Competencies:


Interpersonal Skills:

  • Strong influencing skills with the ability to influence and negotiate for time and resources at all levels.
  • Evidence of success in building and managing relationships with high level stakeholders.
  • Organisational awareness with the ability to operate with confidence and credibility across all functions of the Company.

IT, Administrative and Organisational Skills:

  • Experience with security controls i.e. VPNs, encryption & key/certificate management, endpoint protection, virtual firewalls/ACLs/NSGs, setting up bastion nodes, etc
  • Experience connecting cloud infrastructure to onprem networks (VPNs, tunnelling, AD connectors, routing)
  • Experience in architecture/engineering of cloudbased distribution systems
  • Background in Distributed Systems, Databases, Security, Networking & Load Balancing, Monitoring, Scripting & Automation
  • Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills, with the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines and to demonstrate an effective and resourceful approach to addressing issues.

Judgement and Analysis:


  • Sound judgement with the ability to interpret, analyse and disseminate complex, technical information.
  • Must be able to make excellent strategic decisions for the design and build of services to AWS, evaluating th
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