Contract: 6Months · Rate:500 Per Day, inside IR35 · Location: Glasgow, hybrid (regular on-site client presence, not full time)
A global IT services provider is looking for a senior Cloud Technical Specialist to be the local technical lead for a major client in Scotland, working alongside a nearshore Cloud Managed Services team in Spain.
It's a hands-on role that mixes cloud architecture, engineering and technical leadership.
What you'll do
- Design, build and support cloud infrastructure and platform solutions.
- Act as the client's local technical point of contact, working with product owners, engineering teams and Centres of Excellence.
- Lead one or more engineering lanes, such as AWS, Azure, Infrastructure as Code, observability or platform automation.
- Guide and review the work of remote and nearshore engineers, and unblock design questions.
- Review designs and changes to make sure they're secure, scalable and supportable.
- Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure and platform issues.
What you'll need
- Senior experience as a Cloud Architect, Senior Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar.
- Strong hands-on AWS or Azure experience.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
- CI/CD and automation, ideally GitHub Actions.
- Monitoring, alerting and observability.
- Broad knowledge across networking, identity, security, compute and storage.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, ideally in distributed or nearshore teams.
- Confident communicating with client stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Cloud Managed Services background.
- Both AWS and Azure.
- DevOps, SRE or platform engineering experience.
- AWS or Azure certifications.
Rate:
£500/day
Location:
Glasgow
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior