Benefits…

• £75,000 + potential 10% bonus
• Remote/home-based working
• All colleagues are included in our bonus scheme where you can earn 10% annual bonus
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days holiday plus all Bank Holidays and the ability to buy additional days
• Company Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• 1 Day to give back to local communities each year
• Company sick pay
• Option to join our Health Cash Plan scheme
• Death in Service benefit

Bloom Procurement Services is currently recruiting a Cloud Engineer to join our growing technology team. The role of the Cloud Engineer will be helping to build, deploy and operate production application software in Bloom’s cloud environments and will be primary technical expert with respect to DevOps processes and cloud administration; The Cloud Engineer will provide significant input into application security, scalability, and performance. It’s great time to join as we’re currently going through technological transformation with plenty of opportunities to add value and gain fulfilment.

Some accountabilities for the role include:

• Working with our engineering and product teams to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale whilst maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Identifying, analysing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Capability to select appropriate cloud services based on compute, data, or security requirements
• And more…

About you…

To be considered for the role of Cloud Engineer, we are looking for candidates to demonstrate the following skills:

• Experience running production web applications in AWS and/or GCP in a similar role.
• Familiarity with serverless application architecture
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of software development e.g. bash, Python, Java, git and CLIs
• Application performance management tools (e.g. Ansible, NewRelic, AppDynamics)
• Supporting internet network protocols
• Working within a DevOps environment

Bloom offers a dynamic supply chain providing the public sector with a marketplace to buy and manage services. We ensure delivery of quality outcomes from our pre-approved and ever-growing network of suppliers and consultants. Our fully compliant open access marketplace is outcomes based meaning the public sector only pays for what is delivered. We provide an OJEU compliant managed procurement service covering specification development, supplier identification & onboarding, full contract management, and lessons learned upon successful delivery of outcomes.

We make it easier for public sector buyers to deliver on their social value goals through our marketplace and believe in the need to demonstrate innovation and showcase the skills of the SME community including social value that can be generated through every project.

It is our mission to deliver operational excellence and an outstanding customer experience for our growing community of buyers and suppliers with a vision to provide the world with a marketplace that delivers innovation, insight and value for everyone. Having grown significantly over the last 3 years from £29m to £200m, it really is a great time to join and be a part of the Bloom story.