Senior Cloud Engineer

🧩 Key Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure Design — Architect, maintain, and optimise cloud environments using services such as RDS, ECS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and VPC.
• Terraform Automation — Build, maintain, and improve Terraform modules; enforce IaC best practices; manage multi‑environment deployments.
• Container & Orchestration — Support and enhance Docker‑based workloads and ECS deployments.
• CI/CD Ownership — Contribute to GitLab CI pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Security & Secrets Management — Manage and improve secret storage and access patterns using HashiCorp Vault.
• Scripting & Automation — Develop automation scripts and tooling, ideally in Python.
• Cross‑Team Collaboration — Work closely with developers, and product teams to support delivery and improve operational excellence.

• AWS Expertise with production‑level experience across core services (RDS, ECS, S3, Lambda, IAM, networking).
• Terraform Proficiency including module creation, state management, and complex multi‑environment setups.
• Docker and container lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of GitLab CI/CD, pipelines, runners, and deployment patterns.
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets and policy management.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work both collaboratively and independently.

• Knowledge of monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Scripting skills, ideally Python, for automation and tooling.
• Exposure to cost optimisation in AWS.
• Familiarity with infrastructure security and compliance frameworks.

• A team player who enjoys collaboration but is equally comfortable taking ownership and driving initiatives solo.
• Someone who is curious, proactive, and pragmatic, with a strong sense of responsibility for uptime, performance, and reliability.
• A person who values clean, maintainable infrastructure and automation over manual work.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.