Cloud Platform Consultant
Job Description
Cloud Platform ConsultantPermanentLocation: Home / Birmingham (1 / 2 days a week)Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 (+ benefits)Skills: AWS, Azure, OpenShift, Red Hat, Terraform, Ansible, KubernetesWe're looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Consultant to join a growing technical consultancy delivering secure cloud and infrastructure solutions across customer environments.This is a role for someone who enjoys both design and implementation . You will work closely with customers and internal technical teams to design, build and support cloud platforms, automation frameworks and modern infrastructure environments.The role would suit an experienced Cloud / Platform / Infrastructure Engineer who is looking to move further towards architecture, while remaining technically hands-on.What you'll be doingDesigning and building secure cloud platform environments, with a strong focus on AWSSupporting cloud implementation projects across AWS and AzureWorking with Red Hat Linux and OpenShift cluster environmentsBuilding and automating infrastructure using Terraform and AnsibleSupporting containerised platforms using Kubernetes / OpenShiftProducing technical designs, documentation and architecture artefactsWorking with customers to understand requirements and shape practical solutionsBuilding out architecture frameworks and reusable delivery approachesSupporting test, development and internal platform environmentsTroubleshooting cloud, Linux, container and automation issuesWorking across 1-2 customer projects at a timeWhat we're looking forStrong hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure / platform engineeringGood AWS experience, ideally including secure infrastructure design and buildAzure experience would also be usefulStrong Linux background, ideally Red HatExperience with OpenShift and/or KubernetesInfrastructure as Code experience, particularly TerraformAutomation/configuration management experience, ideally AnsibleComfortable producing technical documentation and design materialAble to work in a customer-facing consultancy environmentHappy to remain hands-on while also contributing to architecture and solution designGood communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholdersUseful experiencePrevious consultancy or client-facing project experienceSecure / regulated environment experienceMOD, defence, public sector or SC-cleared project experienceCI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins or similarMonitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana or similarCloudFormation or other IaC toolingWindows Server exposure alongside LinuxKnowledge of IAM, networking, VPNs, certificates, resilience and security best practiceTPBN1_UKTJ