Job Description
Senior Cloud Engineer | Manchester | Hybrid | £80,000+
Are you a Senior Cloud Engineer who enjoys solving complex engineering problems, shaping cloud platforms, and improving how teams build and deliver software?
We're looking for an experienced engineer to play a key role in designing and delivering scalable cloud and Developer Experience solutions within a modern, engineering led environment. This is a hands on position offering real ownership across architecture, delivery and platform evolution.
You'll work alongside talented engineers to build resilient, secure and highly automated cloud systems, helping development teams move faster through better tooling, infrastructure and engineering practices.
What You'll Be Doing
* Leading the design and delivery of cloud based solutions and platform capabilities
* Owning significant technical components from concept through to production
* Writing high quality, maintainable and testable code
* Designing scalable, loosely coupled systems across multiple services
* Driving best practice across performance, resilience, security and observability
* Contributing to solution design and technical decision making
* Supporting roadmap planning and identifying platform improvements
* Championing automation, modern tooling and engineering standards
What We're Looking For
* Strong hands on experience with AWS
* Experience using Terraform for infrastructure as code
* CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions or similar tooling
* Solid understanding of cloud architecture and platform engineering principles
* Experience building and maintaining shared infrastructure or developer platforms
* Strong testing mindset and experience writing testable code
* Knowledge of Git and distributed version control
* Exposure to cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices
Tech Environment
AWS | Azure | Terraform | GitHub | GitHub Actions | Jira | Confluence | VS Code | PyCharm
Why Apply?
* Genuine technical ownership and autonomy
* Opportunity to influence engineering direction and tooling
* Modern cloud first environment
* Collaborative engineering culture
* Complex, meaningful technical challenges