Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary: £70,929 - £78,810
Location: Halifax or Leeds
Hours: Full time
Working pattern: Hybrid; at least two days per week (40%) at one of the locations above.
About this Opportunity
We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers. Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
Purpose
Be a hands‑on engineering leader who designs, builds and operates secure, automated cloud platform capabilities that enable product teams to deliver API‑first services at pace and with confidence. You'll balance deep technical work with coaching others to raise the bar on reliability, security and simplicity.
What you'll do
* Design, build and operate platform capabilities using Infrastructure‑as‑Code and modern CI/CD; partner with architecture and feature teams to evolve our cloud roadmap and platform products.
* Embed a secure‑by‑design mindset and controls from design to runtime, safeguarding colleagues and customers.
* Define and operate against SLOs/SLIs; implement actionable observability, performance tuning and automation to reduce toil.
* Enable API‑first delivery with reusable patterns and golden paths for API producers/consumers; contribute to documentation and enablement.
* Mentor engineers and contribute to communities of practice, upholding Platform Engineering standards expected at Band E.
Core Skills (cloud‑agnostic)
* Track record delivering large‑scale systems with performance, availability and fault‑tolerance; experience setting SLOs/SLIs.
* Infrastructure‑as‑Code with Terraform (minimum) and one or more modern CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins or Spinnaker).
* Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes) and service‑mesh patterns (e.g., Istio).
* API design and security (REST/OpenAPI, authN/Z, mTLS and certificate lifecycle).
* Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
Depth in one cloud (and readiness to cross‑train)
Azure (any subset)
* ARM/Bicep/Template Spec
* AKS
* Application Gateway
* API Management (policies/C# basics)
* Azure Storage
GCP (any subset)
* GKE
* Cloud Load Balancing
* Cloud Armor
* Istio
* Cloud Monitoring/Stackdriver
* Jenkins
* Apigee (nice to have)
Desirable
* Harness experience in CI/CD
* HashiCorp Vault
* Dynatrace
* Docker/buildah
* NodeJS for API tooling
* Relevant Azure or GCP certifications
About you
* Delivered hybrid‑cloud, automated platforms in agile teams; collaborate across architecture and business stakeholders.
* Technology‑agnostic mindset; choose the best tool for the job and stay curious.
* Enjoy mentoring and raising the engineering bar as a hands‑on player‑coach.
Inclusion & Accessibility
We're committed to inclusive hiring and accessible processes. We'll provide reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process—please tell us what you need.
What you'll get in return
Offering you both opportunity and profile—we provide a diverse, energising and inclusive environment with real career progression. We take your development seriously and enable you to make a genuine difference. Our broad remuneration package typically includes a performance share bonus, generous pension contribution, flex cash pot, private health cover, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays and various share schemes.
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