Job Title: Cloud Engineer

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and industry best practices.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployment processes.
• Drive DevOps culture and automation across development and operations teams.
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and frequent releases.
• Collaborate with Software Engineers, Technical Leads and Architects to define cloud-native solutions and deployment strategies.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting and logging solutions across all environments.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, scalability and operational excellence.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities.
• Implement and maintain cloud security best practices including IAM, network security, secrets management and compliance controls.
• Optimise cloud resource utilisation and contribute to FinOps initiatives to improve cost efficiency.
• Define and document cloud architecture, technical designs, operational procedures and runbooks.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure environments are aligned with delivery needs.
• Contribute to platform standardisation, reusable tooling and engineering governance initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing, workshops and technical mentoring.
• Delivery. Build and maintain reliable cloud platforms according to engineering standards.
• Code Quality. Follow and improve Infrastructure as Code and automation standards.
• Analyse & Estimate. Assess infrastructure requirements, technical risks and implementation effort.
• Software & Infrastructure Design. Create and review cloud architecture designs and infrastructure solutions.

Requirements

· Strong experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch and Systems Manager (SSM).

· Strong experience designing, implementing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS.

· Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, reusable modules and infrastructure automation.

· Strong experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.

· Strong experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar platforms.

· Strong experience with source control management and Git-based development workflows.

· Strong experience with observability platforms including CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk and ELK.

· Strong experience with monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, distributed tracing and application performance monitoring.

· Strong experience implementing operational excellence practices including SLI, SLO and SLA management.

· Strong experience troubleshooting production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving preventative measures.

· Good experience with Linux administration, networking and system troubleshooting.

· Good experience with networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, VPN, CDN, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies and TLS/SSL certificates.

· Good experience with AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, NAT Gateways and PrivateLink.

· Good experience developing automation solutions using Python, Bash or similar technologies.

· Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices including IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management and vulnerability remediation.

· Strong experience with AWS Security Hub, compliance frameworks and security remediation activities.

· Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and integrating automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines.

· Experience evaluating and integrating cloud security tooling for vulnerability assessments, penetration testing and threat modelling.

· Experience supporting microservices and distributed architectures in production environments.

· Experience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

· Strong experience with cloud cost optimisation, FinOps practices and cloud consumption governance.

· Experience using Cloudability or similar cloud financial management platforms to drive cloud visibility, optimisation and reporting.

· Experience defining and implementing cloud tagging strategies, governance standards and operational compliance controls.

· Experience designing and implementing automated remediation workflows.

· Experience creating operational dashboards, alerting frameworks, reliability metrics and engineering KPIs.

· Experience driving cloud migration initiatives, account onboarding and AWS platform transformations.

· Experience building reusable platform components, self-service capabilities and developer enablement tooling.

· Experience creating technical solution designs, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks and engineering documentation.

· Strong understanding of cloud platform services as both a producer and consumer.

· Strong understanding of release management, deployment strategies and environment management.

· Strong experience with Agile delivery methodologies and engineering tooling including Jira, Confluence and GitHub.

· DevOps as a mindset.

· Customer-centric, passionate about delivering reliable digital platforms and services.

· Demonstrating a true engineering craftsmanship mindset.

· Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams.

· Strong problem-solving skills coupled with excellent communication skills.

· Open-minded, inquisitive, life-long learner.

· Comfortable with ambiguity and highly autonomous.

Benefits:

· Flexible work hours

· Remote work options

· Professional development oppertunities

· Collaborative and supportive work environment