Are you ready to take on a career defining role where you’ll be the driving force behind cloud innovation, platform resilience, and business scalability?
OCU are looking for a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer based in Preston to design, build, and manage secure, high-performing cloud environments across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is more than just infrastructure. It’s about architecting intelligent solutions, automating deployments, strengthening security, and enabling business success through cutting-edge cloud technologies.
If you thrive on solving complex challenges and want your work to make a real, company-wide impact this is your opportunity.
This role sits at the centre of OCU Digital’s growing Technology function, supporting the delivery of a scalable, secure, and high-performing multi-cloud environment across Azure and GCP. Working closely with DevOps, Security, and Application teams, you will help shape cloud strategy, drive automation, and enhance platform resilience to support innovation across the business.
As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining platform stability, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Terraform and Bicep. You will champion automation, optimise cloud operations, and ensure compliance with security and governance standards.
This is an opportunity to take ownership of enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure, influence multi-cloud architecture, and contribute to the development of best practices that will have a lasting impact across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in documenting cloud solutions, enabling colleagues through training, and driving the adoption of cloud technologies across the business.
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3-5 years' experience in cloud engineering or cloud infrastructure roles
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure, with exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Good understanding of cloud security, Identity & Access Management (IAM), encryption, and compliance frameworks
- Experience working collaboratively with vendors, stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams
- Knowledge of ITSM/ITIL processes, including incident, change, and problem management
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences
Desirable experience:
- Automation and scripting using PowerShell and/or Python
- Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with security and business continuity standards such as ISO 27001 and ISO 22301.
- Relevant Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud certifications.
This role would suit a proactive and collaborative cloud engineer who is passionate about automation, continuous improvement, and delivering reliable cloud services at scale.
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing
[email protected].
