Cloud Engineer WCC620201

Job Details:

Salary range: £54,684 - £60,795 per annum 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent   
Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check   
Closing date: 16 April 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF 809 CONNECTED BUSINESSES

Digital and Innovation in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where creative and enterprising people put local residents and businesses first.

Today, Westminster is the most connected borough in London. But, when David joined us in the mid-2010s, small businesses were still struggling to get connected to fibre. Without gigabit-capable broadband, some companies even resorted to biking memory sticks around the city, simply to share files with clients.

Although still in a junior role, David took the initiative and successfully made the business case for £2.8 million of European funding to support connectivity for small businesses across Westminster. Feedback from businesses has been overwhelmingly positive as the project has enhanced their communications with clients. The new connectivity allows them to make video calls and work remotely. As the pandemic hit and many more people needed to work from home, it became clear just how vital this investment had been. 

Fast-forward a few years. Westminster is leading the way for connectivity, as a result of the project businesses are thriving, and David is heading up a service of his own responsible for delivery of the Smart City strategy.

The Role:

As a Cloud Engineer, you can make your own powerful contribution delivering work across the whole of the Digital and Innovation Portfolio in Westminster. We’re building a tech team from the ground up and creating cloud systems from scratch. From supporting activities within core technology to deliver the best possible customer and digital experience.

As a council, we’re adopting multi-cloud services across the organisation and this role is integral to its success. Acting and overseeing the organisation’s development and production environments, you’ll run and build cloud infrastructure across all services. Using open-source, cloud-based technologies such as AZURE, GCP & AWS you’ll enable Westminster to operate in an innovative and agile way. 

Our ambitions will require you to stay on top of emerging technologies. We want to be able to experiment and implement new technology wisely. To maintain a culture of proactive and continuous improvement. 

A subject matter expert, you’ll work to implement processes and tools for delivering, monitoring and managing the performance of our automated systems. You’ll work with a range of colleagues to plan and implement complex infrastructure project.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

With professional cloud related qualifications, your technical skills will range from using infrastructure as code to containerisation to SaaS integration. Your expertise and experience cloud technologies will be complimented by significant knowledge of at least one programming language. With demonstrable experience of modern infrastructure concepts, protocols and standards you’ll confidently manage our cloud services. You’ll have a firm understanding of information security within a corporate environment and have hands on experience troubleshooting cloud and hybrid technologies.

Diligent, confident and pragmatic, you’ll be able to administer support seamlessly while dealing with complex change requests. You’ll lead when testing, developing and integrating a range of activities and ensure all procedures and documentation are drafted and maintained.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.   
 
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties  
 
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.  
 
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.