Cloud Consultant

About Phi

Phi Partners has been a trusted capital markets consultancy for more than 20 years, providing quantitative and technology expertise across front office, pricing and risk.

We support more than 80 financial institutions across the buy-side and sell-side through niche capabilities spanning quant, engineering, vendor platforms and cloud infrastructure.

Our teams work on complex, real-world problems across models, analytics, applications, data and cloud infrastructure, within an international delivery organisation built around regional hubs and specialist centres of excellence.

For people who enjoy technically demanding work in capital markets, Phi offers the opportunity to work closely with expert colleagues and major financial institutions on high-value, business-critical initiatives.

Our Cloud Team

The Cloud Services Centre of Excellence is a team of motivated professionals with more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and 10+ years of public cloud consulting. The team is based in Europe, primarily in UK and Bulgaria, serving Phi Partners clients globally.

Roles and Responsibilities

Financial market organisations who are looking to adopt a specific enterprise to the public cloud will strongly rely on Phi Partners to architect, develop and migrate the existing environments to the relevant public cloud platform. The Cloud Platform Engineer will responsible for ensuring the smooth functioning of cloud-based applications by streamlining the development and operations processes.

The role will involve:

• Architecting and delivering Public Cloud solutions that effectively address our customers’ needs, on the Public cloud platforms;
• Facilitation of discussions, ideation, and guidance of important customer stakeholders, such as Project Managers, Architects and C-level executives, to:
• Effectively capture and interpret business requirements,
• Formulate and support technical solutions,
• Hands-on in delivering solutions.
• Customer obsession and work to establish long-term customer relationships;
• Contribution to Innovation and R&D activities addressing challenges within Phi Partners.

Technologies that you would be involved in and working with

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, we expect you to have in depth knowledge of Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and working knowledge of the following tools and frameworks that are commonly utilised by the team’s daily basis (please note that this list is not exhaustive).

Frameworks & Concepts

• Landing Zones
• Well-Architected Framework
• Cloud Adoption Framework
• Migration Strategies
• Environment as Code

Tools

• Whiteboarding & Diagramming – Lucid stack
• Environment as Code – Terraform, Ansible, Open Policy Agent
• Automation – Python
• Scripting – PowerShell
• Version Control Systems and CI/CD – GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spacelift
• Project and Documentation Management – Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence)

About You

You should possess the ability to design and execute solutions for Public Cloud environments ranging from medium-sized to large-scale. The challenges faced by each customer may vary and you must possess the drive to find customised solutions. Furthermore, it is important for you to be open to learning and staying update with the latest technological advancements.

The following skills will aid in success in this role; however, we do not expect candidates to possess all of them except fluency in English

For the Cloud Consultant role, we would expect you to have the following:

• Good knowledge of Services provided by AWS;
• Strong customer focus and good business acumen;
• Networking and Internetworking: LAN, WAN routing & switching basics, VPN;
• Good understanding of Virtualization and Containerization technologies;
• Server Operating Systems: Proficient in deploying and managing Windows systems;
• Scripting – any of the following: Python, Ruby, GoLang, Bash and PowerShell;
• Proficient in building enterprise-grade CI/CD;
• Deep understanding and knowledge of building observability;
• Good understanding of Security Best Practices and industry trends

Having knowledge in one or more of the following areas will make your application more competitive:

• Expertise in configuring and managing network platforms provided by industry-recognized leaders like Cisco, Palo Alto;
• Data Layer – Relational Database, No-SQL, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes;
• Version Control Systems – GitLab, BitBucket;
• Configuration Management tools – Chef, Puppet, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM);
• Identity Providers and Single Sign One tools – Active Directory (AD), AD Federation Service, OKTA and Azure SSO;
• Infrastructure as a code (IaC) experience – Pulumi, CDK, Azure Resource Manage, Google Deployment Manager, CloudFormation, etc.
• Orchestration CI/CD tools – TeamCity, CircleCI, Bamboo, etc.
• DevSecOps: SAST, DAST, WAF;
• Compliance: ISO 27001, SOC1/2/3 Personal Data Protection in Europe, PCI/DSS;

Due to the demands of the role, we would expect that you have at least:

• 5+ years in the IT field, with above average knowledge of at least three of the following domains: Networking, Operating Systems Administration (Unix/Linux or Windows), Automation, Technical troubleshooting, Security.
• 3-4 years of Public Cloud Experience.
• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• A Public Cloud Solution Architecture certification, at Associate level as a minimum.

Why you should join our team

• We are in the storming phase of building the next-gen cloud team that will deliver world class, complex and interesting projects to our fintech customers.
• We are a rapidly growing team, that enjoys learning and deploying leading edge technologies.
• You will have the opportunity to influence our team’s strategy and lead the definition and deployment of solutions that will influence the operations of major Financial Institutions globally.