Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Oxford (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, 2 remote)

Contract

6 months

Rate: Up to £450

We are working with a global, research-driven organisation at the forefront of digital innovation within a highly regulated scientific environment. As part of a growing Digital, Data & IT function, they are investing heavily in modern cloud and data platforms to enable high-value, data-led products.

This is a newly created role, offering genuine influence over cloud and data foundations, alongside the freedom to experiment with new technologies in an agile, collaborative setting.

The Role

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building and optimising scalable cloud-based data platforms. You’ll work across multiple projects, each supporting different business and research use cases, and collaborate closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Building and supporting scalable batch and streaming data processing systems
• Driving optimisation, testing, CI/CD and tooling to improve stability and data quality
• Working closely with software engineers, data engineers, data scientists and domain experts
• Supporting business intelligence use cases, including dashboards and reporting
• Operating within Agile / DevOps / DataOps ways of working

Required Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure)
• Experience with cloud services for storage, ingestion, transformation and serverless workloads
• Strong programming skills, ideally Python
• Solid SQL and database experience
• Containerisation experience (e.g. Docker, Singularity)
• Good understanding of data modelling and storage techniques
• Strong fundamentals in object-oriented programming and system design
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with diverse stakeholders

What’s on Offer

• A key role in shaping a growing cloud and data function
• Exposure to large-scale datasets (terabytes and beyond)
• A collaborative, research-focused environment

If you’re a senior cloud engineer looking for impact, autonomy, and technically interesting work in a mission-driven environment, this is an excellent opportunity.