Senior Cloud Engineer
Posted 5 days ago by SoCode Recruitment
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Cloud Infrastructure Engineer involves designing, implementing, and maintaining AWS-based infrastructure for a financial market infrastructure platform. This hands-on position emphasizes automation, security, and reliability while supporting CI/CD processes and observability tooling. The engineer will collaborate with software engineers to enhance deployment workflows and ensure robust infrastructure management. The position is contract-based and offers a hybrid working arrangement in Cambridge.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and operate AWS infrastructure including EKS, networking, and storage
- Build infrastructure using Terraform with a focus on best practices and reusability
- Manage cloud accounts and IAM policies with a security-first approach
- Develop and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure delivery
- Support the packaging, release, and deployment of infrastructure components
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch
- Collaborate with software engineers to enhance deployment and operational workflows
- Diagnose and resolve issues across containerised and cloud environments
Key Skills:
- Advanced hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Proven skills in writing and maintaining Terraform modules
- Strong background in cloud networking, IAM, and storage design
- Deep understanding of GitLab CI/CD workflows
- Solid troubleshooting capabilities across distributed and containerised systems
- Comfortable with infrastructure release management within a secure SDLC
- Proficient with observability tooling and cloud-native monitoring stacks
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Cambridge
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract Opportunity: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Outside IR35 – Hybrid Cambridge x3
We’re currently supporting our client in the search for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join their Platform Team on a contract basis. This is a hands-on position focused on building and operating secure, scalable and observable cloud infrastructure to support a next-generation financial market infrastructure platform.
The Role
You will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining robust AWS-based infrastructure environments, with a strong focus on automation, security and reliability. This includes supporting CI/CD processes, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling across multiple environments.
Key Deliverables
- Design and operate AWS infrastructure including EKS, networking and storage
- Build infrastructure using Terraform with a focus on best practices and reusability
- Manage cloud accounts and IAM policies with a security-first approach
- Develop and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure delivery
- Support the packaging, release and deployment of infrastructure components
- Implement monitoring, logging and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch
- Collaborate with software engineers to enhance deployment and operational workflows
- Diagnose and resolve issues across containerised and cloud environments
Essential Experience
- Advanced hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Proven skills in writing and maintaining Terraform modules
- Strong background in cloud networking, IAM and storage design
- Deep understanding of GitLab CI/CD workflows
- Solid troubleshooting capabilities across distributed and containerised systems
- Comfortable with infrastructure release management within a secure SDLC
- Proficient with observability tooling and cloud-native monitoring stacks
Contract Details
Outside IR35
Initial 6-month engagement