Senior Cloud Engineer
On site
Biggin Hill, United Kingdom
Full Time
07-03-2025
Job Specifications
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure Team! Based in our Biggin Hill office during Race Events to ensure Formula 1’s Cloud and Kubernetes Systems are correctly designed, maintained and developed so that it continues to meet Formula 1’s on-going Business and Production objectives.
Reporting to the Cloud Architect, you will:
Build, Maintain, develop and support F1’s enterprise cloud platforms
Build, Maintain, develop and support F1’s enterprise Kubernetes platforms in the cloud and on premise
Be a senior stakeholder within the team and within projects, providing guidance, best practices, and solutions.
Work closely with Formula 1’s Information Security team to ensure governance and security compliance is met and maintained.
Support the Formula 1 Grand Prix events remotely from the Media & Technology Centre in Biggin Hill, looking after the on-premises Kubernetes platforms, and Cloud hosted systems.
Utilize Terraform to design and provision infrastructure as code, enabling scalable and repeatable deployment of resources.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues, working closely with cross-functional teams.
Work with cross functional teams to build and maintain multi-site, hybrid Kubernetes platforms.
Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline cloud system architectures and enhance collaboration.
Be available to work on systems outside of usual ‘Business Hours’, both planned and any potential unplanned work
Working closely with the DevOps team to ensure strategic technical objectives are met and system delivery is streamlined.
Essential Skills & Technical Areas of Responsibilities:
Perform well during time sensitive situations
Flexibility to adapt to ever-changing tasks
Great communication and willingness to learn
Minimum 7 years IT experience
Minimum 4 years AWS experience working with security groups, VPC’s, EKS, EC2, IAM, Route53 and S3
Knowledge of AWS Cloud networking (Direct Connect, VPC’s, Transit Gateways)
Experience as 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer or Site Reliability engineer
Understanding of low-level compute architectures such as CPU, memory, and storage.
Extensive hands-on Kubernetes experience
Current UK driving license
Division:
Technical
About the Company
Formula 1® delivers the world’s greatest sports and entertainment spectacle with innovation, inclusivity, and sustainability at the heart of its future growth and value. As the global rights holders of this incredible sport our team delivers the 24-race calendar direct to our passionate fans around the globe. Everything you see on screen or at an event comes via our people at F1. Whether its engineering, broadcast, legal, logistics, security, event management, commercial, media rights, marketing, and communications there i... Know more
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