Senior Cloud Engineer
Job title: Senior Cloud Engineer
** No sponsorship offered**
Location: London, United Kingdom
Hybrid: 1 day on site per week
Contract: 12 months (renewable)
Overview:
Our client, an established financial services organisation is undertaking a significant technology transformation, evolving from traditional infrastructure and hosting models towards a modern cloud-first operating model.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage and support enterprise cloud infrastructure across both Windows and Linux environments.
- Maintain platform stability, performance, availability, and compliance standards.
- Implement and manage security hardening, patching strategies, and configuration management frameworks.
- Ensure robust identity and access controls through role-based access management and governance policies.
- Maintain monitoring, alerting, backup, disaster recovery, and operational support processes.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using modern provisioning tools.
- Contribute to the design and enhancement of cloud landing zones and reusable infrastructure modules.
- Support migration initiatives from on-premise environments to cloud platforms.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, repeatable deployments.
- Enable self-service infrastructure capabilities for engineering and development teams.
- Implement scalable platform services aligned with engineering standards and architectural principles.
- Integrate security controls, vulnerability management, and identity protection mechanisms.
- Monitor resource consumption and implement cost management best practices across cloud environment
Skills required:
- You must have experience within Financial Services
- Enterprise cloud engineering across governance, security, networking, and operations.
- Windows Server administration with Linux support experience.
- Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, or DSC.
- Scripting and automation using PowerShell and Bash.
- CI/CD pipeline development using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Cloud networking, Kubernetes, monitoring, and observability experience.
- Knowledge of cloud security, identity management, and Zero Trust principles.
If you are interested please apply directly via the Linked In job post.
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