Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: Stoke-on-Trent, UK

Working Model: Hybrid - 3 days onsite

Employment Type: Permanent / Full-Time (3 days onsite)

Salary: £65,000 per annum

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to provide technical leadership across secure, scalable and cost-effective cloud infrastructure within a defence-focused environment.

You'll combine hands-on cloud engineering with automation, DevSecOps, cost optimisation, risk management and team mentoring, helping improve both cloud services and engineering capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage secure cloud infrastructure across public, private and hybrid environments
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and reusable deployment patterns
• Automate cloud operations to improve efficiency and reduce manual work
• Lead cloud training, mentoring and certification initiatives
• Support technical risk assessments, security and governance
• Drive cloud cost optimisation and resource efficiency
• Build automation for provisioning, monitoring, patching and configuration
• Integrate infrastructure into CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows
• Contribute to service improvement, operational reviews and incident analysis

Required Experience

• Extensive cloud infrastructure engineering experience in secure, regulated or classified environments, ideally Defence, Government or Critical Infrastructure
• Strong expertise with Azure and Oracle cloud services
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience, such as Terraform, CloudFormation or ARM
• Scripting experience with PowerShell, Python or Bash
• Understanding of cloud security and compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53, JSP 440 or ISO 27001
• Strong communication, documentation and mentoring skills

Nice to Have

• Active SC / DV Clearance
• Azure, AWS or GCP professional cloud certifications
• MOD Cloud or air-gapped environment experience
• DevSecOps tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins or Ansible

You'll have the opportunity to take a senior technical role within a UK sovereign technology organisation supporting the Defence sector, with responsibility across cloud architecture, automation, security and capability development.

If you're a senior cloud engineer with experience in secure or defence environments and are looking for a role with genuine technical ownership, I'd be happy to have a confidential conversation.