Senior Cloud Engineer

Role Overview

• Contribute to the design, evolution, and operation of cloud platforms and DevOps capabilities across the UK product portfolio, covering infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling
• Contribute to the technical direction for cloud architecture, including environment structure, network topology, identity and access models, and shared platform services, in alignment with global cloud teams.
• Support the development and promotion of standards and reference approaches for infrastructure as code, configuration management, and environment provisioning, ensuring repeatability and auditability.
• Design, implement, and improve DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, release and deployment strategies, environment promotion, and change management.
• Ensure cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines are secure and resilient, working with DevSecOps and InfoSec on access controls, secrets management, network security, and pipeline hardening.
• Maintain robust foundations for stability and recovery, including disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, runbooks, and regular recovery testing.
• Manage cloud cost through informed architectural decisions, capacity planning, scaling strategies, and service selection, using cost data to guide trade-offs rather than enforcing blanket controls.
• Promote transparency and visibility of cloud costs back into teams working on the products.
• Mentor and coach other members of the team to improve their skills and promote best practices.
• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure deployment, monitoring, and operational approaches align with application architecture and how systems are built and maintained.
• Work collaboratively, explaining technical decisions clearly and bringing teams along through support, guidance, and shared ownership rather than enforcement.

Requirements

• Experience with developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (terraform etc.) to a high standard
• Experience with deploying and maintaining workloads in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Comfortable working directly with engineering teams in a collaborative approach
• Experience with DevOps tooling and processes (ci/cd pipelines, observability and reliability)
• Networking knowledge

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Terraform

Benefits

• Remote & flexible working
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Support to grow through professional learning & development courses
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Inclusive approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Events – networking and social
• PDP – progression & internal career opportunities
• Death in Service
• Regular training workshops