We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to take ownership of the cloud infrastructure supporting our applications and internal services.
You'll be responsible for designing, building and maintaining cloud environments, with a strong focus on automation, security, reliability and sensible use of resources. This is a hands-on role. You'll be expected to work directly with infrastructure, troubleshoot production issues, review changes and improve the way cloud services are managed.
You'll work closely with software engineers, security specialists and IT teams on new deployments, infrastructure changes and migrations. You'll also have the opportunity to influence technical decisions around cloud architecture and help establish practical standards for how infrastructure is built and operated.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy and maintain production cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Develop reusable modules and deployment processes so infrastructure can be provisioned consistently.
- Manage cloud networking, including VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers and DNS.
- Review cloud environments for availability, security, performance and unnecessary resource usage.
- Support application teams with cloud deployments, infrastructure requirements and production issues.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
- Implement appropriate monitoring, logging and alerting across cloud services.
- Investigate infrastructure incidents and production failures, identifying the underlying cause rather than relying on short-term fixes.
- Manage cloud identity and access controls, secrets and security configurations in line with internal policies.
- Plan and carry out cloud migrations, service upgrades and infrastructure changes with minimal disruption.
- Monitor cloud consumption and identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary spend without compromising system performance or availability.
- Automate routine infrastructure tasks using Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar tools.
- Maintain accurate infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams and operational procedures.
- Work with security and engineering teams to review proposed cloud architecture and technical changes.
- Provide technical guidance to other engineers and take ownership of assigned cloud projects from planning through implementation.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- 5+ years' commercial experience in Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering or a similar technical role.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
- Good understanding of cloud architecture, including compute, storage, networking, databases and managed services.
- Strong experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code platform.
- Experience designing and troubleshooting cloud networking, including VPCs/VNets, routing, DNS, firewalls and load balancing.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
- Strong Linux administration skills and practical experience supporting production systems.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or another container platform.
- Good understanding of IAM, encryption, secrets management and cloud security controls.
- Experience implementing cloud monitoring, logging and alerting using tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or similar.
- Scripting or programming experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash or Go.
- Experience investigating production incidents and making changes to prevent recurring infrastructure problems.
- Good understanding of backup, disaster recovery and high-availability principles.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with developers, security teams and technical stakeholders.
Desirable
- Experience working across more than one major cloud platform.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm or GitOps.
- Knowledge of Ansible or other configuration management tools.
- Experience with cloud cost management and resource optimisation.
- Experience supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis or other production data services.
- Familiarity with Azure Policy, AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations or equivalent cloud governance tools.
- Relevant AWS, Azure or Google Cloud certification.
- Experience leading cloud migration or infrastructure modernisation projects.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with annual performance review
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Company pension scheme
- £1,500 annual learning and development budget
Apply
If you have strong hands-on cloud engineering experience and enjoy working on infrastructure that has a direct impact on production systems, we'd like to hear from you.
Please submit your CV with details of your cloud experience, infrastructure projects and the technologies you have worked with. We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate ownership of production environments, automation and cloud infrastructure improvements.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted regarding the next stage of the recruitment process.
Pay: £70,000.00-£74,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
