Description
As the Cloud Operations Team Leader, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of our cloud environment, ensuring performance, availability, and security. You’ll lead a team of engineers, drive automation and governance best practices, and support the development teams through robust CI/CD infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role that balances strategic vision with technical execution.
Key Responsibilities
* Oversee day-to-day cloud operations, including monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting and optimisation
* Lead & manage both short & long term project planning (Agile, Sprints, Iteration Planning)
* Develop and implement cloud governance, security and compliance policies & procedures
* 3+ years of experience in at least one cloud platform (AWS)
* Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code improvements using Terraform and Ansible and an AI first approach.
* Collaborate with development teams to support CI/CD pipelines.
* Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation strategies and monitoring tools (FinOps)
* Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
* Provide mentorship and professional development opportunities for cloud engineers
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS.
* Strong knowledge of IaC and configuration management tools
* Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and managing cloud infrastructure projects.
* Proficiency in cloud monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning.
* Solid understanding of cloud security, governance, and compliance best practices.
* Experience with CI/CD tools and supporting development workflows.
* Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
* Strong knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, GitHub & Web Application Firewalls.
Benefits
Nice to have experience:
* SQL Server
* Windows Server
* Active Directory
* DNS
* Remote Desktop Services
* IIS / Nginx
* Linux Server
* IDS/IPS
* PowerShell & Bash
* Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda, Elastic Containers)
* Agentic and Generative AI especially applied to Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
#LI-NS1
Kinetic was founded in 1998 with one aim: to develop the most innovative software to help university accommodation and conferencing teams deliver the best student and customer experiences possible.
Fast forward 25 years, and we are now the technology partner of choice to the worlds' leading universities and colleges. We are ranked #1 on the APUC framework, ITS1051 AP, for student accommodation management, conferencing and events management, hotel management and multifunctional management systems.
We supply mission-critical software for over 350 customers, from the University of Nevada Las Vegas to Monash in Australia... Not to mention over 80% of universities in the UK.
Since 2015, Kinetic has been part of the Volaris Group. Volaris help strengthen and grow vertical market software companies so, like Kinetic, they become leaders in their industry.