Cloud Engineer

Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and to fight crime. But it takes more than officers alone to do the job – and that’s where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers come in.As one of the largest police forces in England we have a huge variety of departments and specialisms offering you endless opportunities. From mentoring and coaching schemes and online soft skills courses to leadership development programmes; we’ll give you the support, training and time to carve out the career you always wanted.

As one of the top 50 UK inclusive employers and a disability confident employer, we promote a culture of respect in the workplace so everyone can feel seen, heard and valued.

Whether you’re a member of staff or a volunteer, you can also expect first-rate support to manage your health and wellbeing. With year-round events, a 24/7 welfare support hotline and a leading approach to neurodiversity, our initiatives enable you to be at your best.

Above all else, here at Team NP, we can offer you a career that is so much more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something that really matters.

Learn about our full benefits package

The role

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Digital Policing Department as a Cloud Engineer.

In addition to engineering new cloud services & environments to architectural standards and enhancing existing capabilities, the Cloud Engineer will influence, verify, and inform the designs intended to deliver the next generation of digital services for Northumbria Police.

You will be adept at engineering secure-by-design cloud solutions and skilled in SecOps (Security Operations) processes and procedures. You will ensure that all operational teams adhere to processes which maintain secure cloud operations at-all-times through influencing and convincing teams and business capabilities of the benefits of security best practices.

What you’ll do

• Building and implementing cloud systems and services that consistently meet or exceed expectations.
• Developing the automation necessary for on demand resource provisioning and user self-service.
• Implementing industry best practices across all cloud services and solutions.
• Managing the migration of legacy systems from on-premises to cloud.
• Delivering the secure migration of data from on-premises systems to services.

Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description

What you’ll bring

• Proven enterprise level experience of making detailed technical assessments of existing on-premises servers, applications & services including, but not limited to; – TCP/IP networking, routing & firewalling, defensive security posture, storage IOPS, vCPU & memory right-sizing, database interoperability, RTO & RPO, etc. to ensure that cost modelling for cloud migrations are fully predicted and based on detailed technical analysis.
• Proven experience in migrating legacy on premise solutions to Azure and engineering cloud infrastructure, avoiding ‘lift and shift’ entirely.
• Proven experience deploying and using Azure Migrate: Discovery and Assessment, and Migration and Modernisation within an enterprise.
• Demonstrable experience delivering secure & resilient connectivity via ExpressRoute, S2S VPN Gateways, and P2S VPNs.
• Proven experience building solutions and services using Microsoft Azure Resources (Subscriptions/Resource Groups/App Registrations/PaaS/API Permissions/Application Hosting & Delivery/Environments/Azure Site Recovery/Storage/Backup/Log Analytics/Azure Monitor/Azure Sentinel/Identity/Azure CLI/Load Balancers/Key Vault/OAuth).
• Experience engineering event driven solutions and integrations with Azure Event Grid (Topics, Subscribers, Namespaces, Relays, Hybrid Connections, etc.).  In addition, you will be able to demonstrate technical experience in controlling costs from all operation metered Azure technologies.
• Proven SecOps (Security Operations) experience and skilled in penetration testing methodologies ensuring that all cloud solutions continually meet high standards of security & compliance.
• In-depth knowledge and experience using Azure ARC, AMA (Azure Monitoring Agent), Defender, and traditional on-premises anti-virus (malware) solutions.
• Deeply skilled in threat hunting across cloud, all traditional IT domains, and highly knowledgeable with current TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) used by threat actors.
• Demonstrable experience and building fully monitored and highly resilient secure-by-design solutions.
• Experience engineering identity security solutions and integrations with SailPoint IDN.
• Proven expertise in using Infrastructure as code (IaC) such as Terraform.
• Proficient in one or more scripting languages including PowerShell.
• As a minimum you will hold Microsoft certifications: Azure Administrator, Azure Security Technologies (AZ-900 / AZ-500).
• Demonstrable experience engineering bespoke solutions through collaboration with technical teams across all traditional IT domains (Networks, Servers, EUD, Defensive Cyber Security, Information Security & Governance, Software Development, Scripting, Storage) and subject matter experts across the organisation.
• Ability to cut through technical and organisational complexity to gain a full understanding of complex technologies and business processes.
• Proven experience of delivering the exceptional while building and managing relationships diplomatically.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact David Charlton, Cloud Architect by email at david.charlton@northumbria.police.uk

What we offer

• 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays
• NHS Fleet Solutions Car Lease Scheme
• Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
• Flexi time – allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs
• Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
• Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force
• Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution
• Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts
• Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers
• Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets
• We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support
• Access to gyms in some stations
• Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel
• Cycle to work scheme

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Cloud Engineer with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a Microsoft Teams invite.  Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.

We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed.  A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.