Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer 

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water: 

• We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience (£57,156 - £71,445) 
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution) 
• Development opportunities in line with the Senior Cloud Engineer progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus 2 extra wellness days! 
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary 
• A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.  
• Retail savings scheme.
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more! 

Location: Leeds Valley Park - Hybrid Working (1-2 days in the office a week – Leeds)

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

We have an number of opportunities for a Senior Data Platform Engineer and a Cloud Automation Engineer to join the Tech team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

What we do:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity. 

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The Tech function are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators. Join us as a Lead Data Platform Engineer and play a key role in building and evolving a modern, scalable, and secure data platform. You'll drive technical strategy, champion engineering best practices, and lead the delivery of innovative platform solutions that power business growth.
Working closely with technology and product teams, you'll make critical architectural decisions, mentor engineers, optimise performance and costs, and ensure the platform remains reliable, secure, and future-ready. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a lasting impact while leading the way in data platform excellence.

Where you fit in:

As our Senior Cloud Engineer, you will:

• Lead the design, development and evolution of a scalable data platform, Driving data engineering excellence across the organisation. 
• Translate business, security and technical requirements into innovative platform solutions that deliver value. 
• Make key technical decisions to ensure platforms are scalable, secure, resilient and maintainable. 
• Champion best practices in coding, automation, Infrastructure as Code, testing and documentation. 
• Provide technical leadership through coaching, design reviews and collaborative problem-solving. 
• Build and maintain automated deployment, testing and operational capabilities to improve reliability and speed. 
• Create reusable tools, templates and self-service solutions that enhance engineering efficiency. 
• Partner with product and delivery teams to successfully deliver complex platform initiatives. 
• Ensure platform performance, availability and security through monitoring, optimisation and proactive issue resolution. 
• Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement activities. 
• Embed security, governance and data management best practices across the platform. 
• Optimise platform usage and cloud costs while exploring emerging technologies to drive innovation.

What skills & qualifications you will need:

• Significant experience engineering and supporting cloud-based or enterprise data platforms in a complex organisation. 
• Strong practical knowledge of cloud platform services, data storage, compute, networking, identity and access controls. 
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration automation using relevant tools and languages. 
• Experience designing and maintaining continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. 
• A good understanding of data platform architecture, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage and consumption services. 
• Experience engineering for security, resilience, monitoring, recoverability, performance and operational support. 
• Previous experience using source control, automated testing, peer review and documented engineering standards. 
• The ability to lead technical design, explain trade-offs and influence stakeholders across engineering and delivery teams. 
• Previously coached or mentored engineers and assuring the quality of technical work. 
• Strong written and verbal communication, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Relevant degree, technical qualification or equivalent practical experience. 

Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it’s important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life. We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn’t always easy! Do we sound like your cup of tea?   

If you’ve got experience in Cloud Automation or Data Platform Engineering and want to help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, then be sure to apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer you.   

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance. All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.

We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required.Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

No agencies please.