About the role

This role is for our Government team, working on projects across the entire public sector. A Cloud Engineer at Faculty help our customers by building robust, secure and scalable Cloud Infrastructure to support their data and machine learning workflows. You’ll work as part of a cross-functional technical team to build solutions to some of the hardest problems in applied artificial intelligence. Your role will evolve alongside business needs, but you can expect your key responsibilities to include:

• You’ll work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders going from idea to implementation as well as contributing to internal Cloud Engineering best practices, standards and code repos; enabling Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists to take ownership of their cloud deployments.

• You’ll proactively contribute to Faculty’s growth by working with our customers to recommend how they can leverage Cloud infrastructure to solve their problems.

• Be involved with the project life cycle from idea generation to shipping

• Actively look out for the best open source technologies to be used in the development of Faculty's infrastructure

• Create and maintain reusable libraries that are used company-wide.

Who we're looking for

At Faculty, your attitude and behaviour are just as important as your technical skill. We look for individuals who can support our values, foster our culture, and deliver for our organisation.

We like people who combine expertise and ambition with optimism -- who are interested in changing the world for the better -- and have the drive and intelligence to make it happen. If you’re the right candidate for us, you probably:

• Think scientifically, even if you’re not a scientist - you test assumptions, seek evidence and are always looking for opportunities to improve the way we do things

• Love finding new ways to solve old problems - when it comes to your work and your professional development, you don’t believe in ‘good enough’. You always seek new ways to solve old challenges

• Are pragmatic and outcome-focused - you know how to balance the big picture with the little details and know a great idea is useless if it can’t be executed in the real world

• Have experience in working directly with clients and end users to conduct: Requirements Gathering, Technical Planning and Scoping

• Have a drive to learn new technologies and novel applications of existing technologies

• Technical mentoring

To succeed in this role, you'll need demonstrable experience in some of the following:

• At least one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• GitOps:

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform

  • CI/CD, for example ArgoCD, Gitlab Pipelines, CircleCI

• Containerisation and deployment with Docker and Kubernetes

• Networking fundamentals, IP networking, TCP, HTTP

• Cloud security fundamentals: least privilege access, security groups, isolated networks

• Technologies our teams use that are nice to know, but not essential: Task orchestration, ELT, Serverless, Event Streaming

• Python, NodeJS or other scripting languages

Culture & Benefits at Faculty

The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day. This curiosity pushes us to seek truth and understanding in everything we do, to execute work in a nimble and pragmatic manner, to foster talent in one another and always to challenge assumptions.

Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals. Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet. You’ll also have the opportunity to make your mark on a high-growth start-up now poised to expand internationally.

Fostering talent is one of our core values, it’s built into our culture and what we offer. Faculty was founded by people who are passionate about continuous learning, and adding value to our people.

Some of our benefits:

• Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family.

• Genuinely flexible working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!

• Equity: We want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success.

• Fantastic private health, optical and dental insurance for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions.

• Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus

• Free breakfast, weekly lunches and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat when you're in the office.

• We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime.