Senior Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer designs, builds, and operates secure, reliable cloud infrastructure and platform services supporting digital products and engineering teams. The role develops infrastructure-as-code modules and automated delivery pipelines, incorporates observability, security, and operational controls, and supports production incidents and cloud cost optimisation. Work spans cloud networking, containers, CI/CD, and infrastructure capabilities for AI-assisted engineering.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native infrastructure and services.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, including version control, testing, and automated delivery.
• Experience operating services on at least one major cloud platform.
• Experience with containers, orchestration, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, resilience, and distributed systems.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automated provisioning and deployment processes.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Experience supporting production infrastructure and resolving operational incidents.
• Strong scripting and automation skills.
• Ability to incorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure solutions.
• Understanding of AI-assisted software delivery and the infrastructure needed to support it safely.
• Ability to mentor and collaborate with engineers through design reviews and technical discussions.
• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules, automation tooling, and deployment pipelines.
• Build monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational controls into infrastructure.
• Support production environments through incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and resolution.
• Apply identity, access management, security, compliance, and operational controls.
• Improve reliability and maintainability with automation and reusable engineering patterns.
• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation through automation, right-sizing, and platform improvements.
• Collaborate on design reviews and mentor engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

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