Job Specifications
Company Description
Recently acquired by Believe, Sentric Music is in an exciting phase of significant growth into new markets. Sentric Music Group is a rapidly expanding music publishing company with 100+ employees based across our offices in Liverpool, London, Hamburg, Palma, New York and LA. The company handles copyright and royalty administration for a large client base consisting of songwriters, record labels and music catalogue owners. Our industry-challenging platform is transforming the traditional models for royalty collection and our client base is consistently growing.
Believe is above all a passion for music, tech, and digital marketing, shared by over 1,900 talented people in more than 50 countries. It is a visionary and entrepreneurial spirit that drives us and makes us a world leader in the digital distribution of music.
Believe is a tribe of experts who successfully meet the challenges of the transformation of our music industry every day. It's an adventure, a human adventure, and one that is propitious and stimulating for all of us.
Finally, Believe is a story that began in 2005 and that we must continue to narrate, now, and with you. Believe's mission is to develop labels and artists in the most suitable way, at each stage of their career and development, in all local markets around the world, with respect, expertise, fairness and transparency.
Job Description
At Sentric, we're driven by a mission to create a fairer music industry for artists. We're looking for enthusiastic graduate and associate-level Software Engineers from the Merseyside area to launch their careers with our team in our modern Liverpool office. We offer a hybrid work model and are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive environment where everyone can learn and grow.
About The Role
The Senior Cloud Engineer plays a pivotal role in the effective operation and continuous improvement of the AWS cloud estate and associated application engineering activities. This role provides critical support to the various Engineering disciplines and wider Product and Insights functions with empathetic expertise, practices, guidance and tooling necessary to ensure efficiency, performance, scalability, security, compliance, and developer experience of our AWS application estate.
Key Responsibilities
Culture and behaviour:
Honesty: Communicate trade-offs, risks, and timelines transparently; own mistakes and remediation.
Originality: Propose and trial pragmatic improvements grounded in data.
Progression: Share knowledge via documentation, pairing, and brownbags; seek and provide feedback.
Kindness: Collaborate respectfully; design with developer ergonomics in mind.
Behaviours for success: Proactively surface solution-focused insights on spend, performance, and risk; align platform work to product goals and follow through to impact.
Deliver continued improvements towards cloud infrastructure maturity
Support Engineering in improving cloud and application security posture, facilitating Threat Modelling and Risk Analysis activities, guiding discussions on mitigation controls and implementation planning.
Take a leading, hands-on role in the implementation of critical BCDR controls and practices
Lead in the adoption of FinOps practices, including the continuous monitoring of cloud activity for potential cost savings, supporting engineering colleagues towards effective labelling and attribution practices.
Evolve the design of the AWS cloud estate, ensuring an effective deployment of AWS accounts and security practices aligned to Well Architected Framework.
Work with suppliers (AWS, DoiT, etc) to ensure effective supplier relationships, sufficient knowledge/expertise and favourable cost decisions.
Drive the adoption of best practices across engineering
Guide engineers in the deployment and operation of core AWS services including S3, ECS, EC2, Aurora, RDS, CloudWatch, Lambda, and associated services
Guide best practices in Data Engineering and integration activities including with external services such as Elastic and Snowflake
Provide guidance and expertise on cloud engineering and IaC to Platform and Engineering colleagues, enabling a 'you build it, you run it' delivery culture
Support Platform efforts to optimise CI/CD for speed, reliability, quality, and security
Champion observability best practices, ensuring comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing across all services and environments
Enforce IAM and security best practices, including least privilege access, role-based permissions, and secure credential management
Support engineers with effective knowledge and tooling in improving QoS and incident response
Provide critical support to Product, Insights and Engineering leadership
Help manage licensing of critical services and tools, ensuring compliance and cost-effectiveness
Conduct risk assessments and maintain risk registers, providing regular updates on mitigation progress
Lead cloud infrastructure cost mana