This small team provides a highly automated and process-driven environment-provisioning service, defining and maintaining standards for our cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) - primarily in Google Cloud Platform but also reaching into other cloud platforms. The Team supports the development teams, who are spread out globally and helps them to deliver new initiatives quickly while overseeing and ensuring that high standards, quality, security and audit requirements are maintained.
We govern cloud platforms centrally, administer shared tools, we control naming conventions, network configurations and access. We own the cloud database instances, shared ELT tools, API management tools and we drive the agendas of the Global Infrastructure and InfoSec departments in the cloud.
Main Tasks:
Deliver platform solutions and services:
● Design and deployment of automated processes in Google Cloud, coded in exclusively in Python, to integrate Google APIs and other business systems to solve business problems such as user and service account provisioning with segregation of duties (approvals), new GCP project deployments with extensive customisation, tools to satisfy audit requirements, automated backups, DR, reporting, monitoring, cost optimisation and stale resource removal.
● Administer and utilise CICD tools such as BitBucket Premium
● Administer and maintain Google Cloud add-ons such as Cloud DataFusion and Google Apigee Enterprise
● Architectural assistance to product teams and global colleagues, design solutions using serverless technologies in the cloud while steering teams to use preferred security and management tools for Secret Management, WAF and DDoS, Centralised Network Management and Logging.
Operational reliability:
● Act as a technical point of contact on the platform, working with cloud service providers to ensure the platform remains operational and is able to support the service levels of the hosted applications.
● Maintain the enterprise wide view of the consumers of the cloud resources, applications, owners and technical contacts.
● Maintain services hosted on the platforms by measuring and monitoring availability, performance, cost and efficiency.
● Scale systems through automation and evolve systems by enforcing changes that improve reliability, performance, supportability, security
Requirements:
The Infrastructure DevOps Solutions Specialist is at the forefront of the constant technical change that we embrace as an organisation. They offer expertise in specific technical areas while relying on strong experience in wider IT disciplines - a generalist with evolved coding abilities and at least 3 years’ experience architecting solutions and running code in Google Cloud.
The Group Infrastructure DevOps Specialist understands IT security, they coach and influence development teams, they share their expertise, lead developers to update or retire superseded technologies and sell them better ones.
Essential:
● Expert in automation in the cloud, developing advanced Python code to interact with Google APIs and external tools such as ServiceNow
● Thorough understanding of networking and routing concepts and a proven ability to apply them successfully in cloud virtual networks.
● ServiceNow administration and integration skills
● Knowledge of Bitbucket Pipelines and CICD methodology
● Hands-on experience of authentication methods, OAuth, token exchange and identity federation methods
● Hands-on experience of running Python code in Google Cloud Run and Cloud Functions to automate governance tools, audit requirements, reporting and automation needs.
● Knowledge of Load Balancing technologies
● Expert in Google Cloud IAM
● Experience with App Engine Flex and Standard, API Gateway, Cloud Endpoints, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, BigQuery and Looker.
● Experience optimising and economising within cloud platforms, making use of Committed Use Discounts, scaling up and down, selecting the most efficient storage and compute options and global region selection
● Extensive experience detecting and resolving security, performance and availability issues - really exceptional troubleshooting skills are required.
● The personality to question and challenge practices or procedures that fall below company standards
● Able to produce clear and comprehensive documentation
● Great communicator (Written and Oral) with sound, well-practised presentation skills that can relate to colleagues of all levels including third parties, senior leaders and live audiences of up over 100 people
● Good understanding of infrastructure and application security controls
Desirable:
● Experience in AWS, particularly AWS IAM & SES
● Experience in Alibaba Cloud
● Experience with Infrastructure As Code technologies such as Terraform
● Database knowledge and SQL skills (ideally with experience of Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, CloudSQL)
● Experience working in an Agile environment following Agile methodologies
Relevant Qualificationsn- Google Professional Cloud Architect
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Hybrid working
- Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
- 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in service benefit
- Healthcare
- Free parking
At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute.
We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to (joanna.sharpe@rentokil-initial.com) if you need anything
