Cloud / Platform Solution Engineer - #189817

The E.ON I&C Pillar combines the npower Business Solutions & E.ON B2B businesses to create a new £5billion revenue business serving c60,000 I&C customers and around 300,000 meter points, becoming the number one B2B energy supplier in the UK. Digital Technology & Change is a new function formed as part of the I&C business integration and consists of t teams: • Change Management; responsible for project delivery • Innovation & Architecture, responsible for the digitisation strategy and the provision of technical data, digital and solutions architecture expertise • Digital Products, responsible for the end-to-end delivery of digital products via DevOps WOW • Engineering & Service Management, responsible for the provision and delivery of secure digital service, platforms and expertise to facilitate product lifecycle. Including the operational (day-to-day) management of supplier relationships. The Solution Engineer sits within Engineering & Service Management, and will be part of a wider team of IT & Digital Engineers that design, build and manage IT solutions and products for npower Business Solutions (nBS) which is the Industrial and Commercial arm of E.ON UK. Working on a principally Azure based landscape and operating within E.ON's Group Digital Technology Framework, the Solution Engineer delivers across the lifecycle of IT & Digital Products, that enable and support multiple business capabilities including sales, billing, metering, pricing and industry related processes The Solution Engineer will practise and adopt Product and DevOps ways of working and will have a strong hands-on technical understanding of several different cloud and digital enterprise level technologies, that can be compiled, installed, configured, integrated and securely operated to enable and support large scale, compliant and resilient, business operations. They will maintain relationships with key business and digital technology stakeholders both locally and internationally across relevant E.ON teams and departments, and external partners.

Key responsibilities

• Support the setup, configuration and management of Azure subscriptions and cloud environments.
• Build, configure and maintain cloud infrastructure to support I&C applications and services.
• Manage and support Azure API Management environments, policies, access and integrations.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure cloud environments are secure, compliant and aligned to agreed standards.
• Help define and maintain cloud platform guardrails, including subscription structures, landing zone principles, naming conventions, tagging standards, Azure Policies and access controls.
• Build specialist knowledge of E.ON Digital Technology cloud products, platform services and landing zone lifecycle processes, supporting the adoption, adaptation and operation of Group-provided capabilities within the I&C environment.
• Support the development of reusable platform patterns and environment templates that enable engineering teams to provision cloud services in a consistent, secure and repeatable way.
• Support the creation and maintenance of development, test and production environments.
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce infrastructure and platform designs based on agreed architecture.
• Work with architecture, security and engineering teams to ensure new cloud environments follow agreed platform standards and are designed with scalability, security, resilience and operational support in mind.