Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer – DevOps Focus

📍 Location: Remote

📅 Contract

💷 £525 OUTSIDE OF IR35

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer with strong DevOps expertise to join a fast-paced financial services environment. This role will suit someone with a strong background in cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and platform engineering across multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and secure software delivery.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams to improve platform reliability and performance.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions across cloud platforms.
• Support cloud migration and transformation initiatives within highly regulated financial services environments.
• Ensure cloud platforms align with security, compliance, and governance standards.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues across production and non-production environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with at least two of the following cloud platforms:
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong DevOps and automation experience.
• Expertise with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Containerisation and orchestration experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, IAM, and cloud governance principles.
• Previous experience working within financial services, banking, insurance, or highly regulated environments is essential.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with SRE practices and platform engineering.
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks within financial services.
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments.
• Relevant cloud certifications across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work within complex enterprise environments.
• A proactive engineer with a passion for automation, reliability, and cloud innovation.
• Someone comfortable working across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.