Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Posted 1 day 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

Detailed Description From Employer:

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