Inmarsat has been at the forefront of global mobile satellite communications for over forty years, and is the market leading provider of voice and high-speed data communications for users on land, at sea and in the air through its constellation of 14 geostationary satellites.  Inmarsat is a privately owned company with a profitable track record and significant growth aspirations. This is represented by more than 55 nationalities in the workforce, reflecting the global and dynamic nature of the business. With an investment of over $3 billion in its latest network infrastructure, Inmarsat is at the forefront of global mobile communications innovation.

Chief Operations Office 

Inmarsat’s Chief Operations Office (COO) plays a vital role managing the services that keep our business running and delivering to our customers. COO consists of 9 functions including: Satellite Operations, Network Operations, Service Assurance, Service Delivery Aviation and Customer Assurance, Service Delivery and Supply Chain, Project Management Office, Global Cyber Security and Group IT

Primary role purpose:

As part of the Cloud & Infrastructure team within Group IT, you will be acting as a cloud and technology evangelist supporting the adoption of and the journey to the cloud, providing technical expertise, leadership and knowledge transfer.  You will also have responsibilities for defining and supporting the adoption of best practices, drive continuous improvement and implementation of automation where appropriate. As the senior engineer in a small team you’ll also be an escalation point for operational teams covering both cloud and on premise infrastructure. 

The role will require collaboration with project teams to provide delivery, engineering and operational support on various projects within Inmarsat.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise to project, delivery teams and IT Operations unit.
• Contribute to the implementation of proactive infrastructure security features, patches, and upgrades using an Infrastructure-As-Code approach to achieve secure, stable, and reliable services.
• Actively lead in the development and establishment of cloud services capabilities encompassing CloudOps / DevOps practices.
• Document infrastructure and work instructions for systems and applications hosted under Cloud stacks
• Provide leadership and knowledge sharing across the team to support the ongoing development of cross team operational support functions.
• Review and oversee platform enhancements.
• Execute implementations to tight deadlines, working well both independently and as part of a team.
• Taking ownership of projects gaining a personal satisfaction in achieving high performing environments.
• Communicate technical concepts to non-technical staff and the business.
• Govern our technologies to ensure security standards are met.
• Working in a DevOps capacity with a desire to automate everything

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• Technical expertise in Cloud Engineering role focusing on Amazon Cloud Services (AWS)
• Proven track record of overseeing IT/Cloud service delivery.
• Strong infrastructure background (Linux/Windows) and hands on exposure to Cloud and automation technologies
• Hands-on Automation experience leveraging tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef etc.
• Professional scripting experience with languages such as PowerShell, Python, and BASH
• Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment & amp; Orchestration - Jenkins or one of its variant
• Experience with virtualization and containerization - VMware, Hyper-V, Docker, VirtualBox, Kubernetes
• Sound knowledge and experience in creating platforms using Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace.
• Experience with log management tools such as ELK
• AWS certification is highly preferred plus Vendor certifications from Red Hat, Microsoft etc.

You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.

Inmarsat Values: 

Our values define Inmarsat’s culture and represent what we believe in. Inmarsat employees aspire to certain behaviours which support our corporate values, they create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation.

• Customer – Providing a unique value to our customers
• Accountability – taking ownership, getting results and keeping our promises
• Respect – collaborating, embracing diversity and valuing differences
• Excellence – creating bold solutions for our customers and putting quality at the heart of everything we do