Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

In this role, as a key member of our client’s Cloud Engineering team, you will analyse, design, build, and evolve cloud infrastructure solutions and patterns to support technology programmes. Your knowledge and experience will define the future of their evolving cloud adoption, applying your creativity to solve complex problems. This is a central role delivering to all aspects of the business in a team that serves as a centre of excellence for cloud technology.

Key focus areas:

• Ensuring frictionless cloud deployments and maintenance
• Providing engineering and development capacity to Cloud Operations, improving operational efficiencies
• Maximising cloud utilisation and reducing costs by offering self-service, efficient-by-default capabilities

Expected Skills:

• Possess deep knowledge of multiple cloud services
• Adept at troubleshooting issues in cloud infrastructure components
• Skilled in decomposing complex problems into discrete work units
• Ability to balance strategic and pragmatic concerns when solving problems
• Comprehensive knowledge of core infrastructure capabilities: operating systems, networking, identity, and access management
• Expertise in tooling used to test and manage infrastructure components
• Capable of producing sustainable solutions that can be extended and refactored as needed
• Ability to effectively communicate complex topics to a diverse range of audiences

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining awareness and understanding of evolving cloud technology
• Guiding other technology teams in using cloud services effectively, securely, and efficiently
• Producing and delivering training materials for cloud services to technology teams
• Driving the evolution and modernisation of cloud deployments
• Providing and maintaining shared, reusable cloud deployment code and configurations
• Ensuring solutions meet relevant security and resilience standards
• Participating in an in-hours support rota for responsible components
• Working effectively as part of a globally distributed team (US East Coast and UK)

Qualifications and Experience:

• Typically has 5+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of experience and relevant qualifications
• Proven experience and knowledge of either AWS or Azure cloud platforms
• Knowledge of container runtime platforms such as AWS ECS, EKS, or Azure AKS
• Experience with HashiCorp Terraform and HCL
• Software development and testing experience, including CI/CD
• Strong knowledge of modern security principles and technology, including authentication, authorisation, policies, and secrets management
• Understanding of what enables software to be maintainable and malleable
• Relevant cloud certifications are a bonus
• Knowledge of Java and Groovy is a bonus
• Experience working in a regulated environment would be useful