Senior Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer plays a critical role in maintaining, optimizing, and evolving PL Re’s cloud-hosted application workloads, with a primary focus on AWS. This is a high-impact, hands-on role responsible for operational excellence, security, reliability, and lifecycle management of cloud applications across multiple regions. The role sits at the intersection of cloud architecture, SRE, security, and developer experience, helping to raise the overall standard of cloud usage across PL Re.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating distributed AWS environments, including networking, IAM, security, observability, and monitoring.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud security, compliance, and governance in enterprise or regulated environments.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling.
• Hands-on expertise in SRE and operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, reliability improvement, and incident response.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end, balancing robustness, efficiency, and developer usability.
• Experience operating and supporting Kubernetes-based workloads in AWS.
• Experience supporting data, analytics, or modeling workloads in cloud environments (desirable).
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture principles and working within formal governance frameworks (desirable).
• Exposure to financial services, insurance, underwriting, or actuarial technology environments (desirable).
• Experience improving developer experience through tooling, templates, and platform capabilities (desirable).
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for operational outcomes.
• Clear, pragmatic communicator able to work effectively with engineers, architects, and risk stakeholders.
• Ability to lead through influence, setting practical standards and encouraging good cloud practice.
• Calm, analytical approach to problem-solving in production and incident scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver complex cloud and platform initiatives from concept to production, resolving dependencies and ensuring reliable outcomes.
• Operate and evolve a global AWS application environment, supporting workloads across multiple regions within local business hours, and participating in out-of-hours on-call rotas.
• Support the full lifecycle of application workloads, including maintenance, patching, backups, upgrades, and controlled decommissioning.
• Drive improvements in reliability, resilience, performance, and efficiency through strong SRE practices.
• Own and enhance observability and monitoring, ensuring meaningful alerting, clear operational dashboards, and rapid diagnosis of incidents.
• Raise the bar for operational maturity, including incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure workloads are designed, deployed, and operated in line with cloud security, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Work closely with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with company standards.
• Maintain up-to-date technical and architectural documentation to support governance reviews and audit requirements.
• Collaborate with application and engineering teams to guide and influence cloud architecture decisions, ensuring a smooth path to production.
• Improve developer experience and tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, automation, and standardized patterns.
• Contribute to the definition of cloud design patterns, policies, and standards, feeding into wider platform strategy and governance.
• Potentially take on line or technical leadership responsibilities as the platform engineering capability matures.

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