Social Security Scotland is currently seeking a Cloud Engineer – FinOps to join our Chief Digital Office. The Chief Digital Office is responsible for delivering the infrastructure, capability and digital solutions that support Social Security Scotland.
Our FinOps team ensures cloud investments deliver maximum value while promoting financial accountability.
You will optimise cloud costs through automation and real-time monitoring. If you’re passionate about identifying efficiencies and influencing infrastructure decisions, this role is for you.
As a Cloud Engineer in FinOps, you’ll work with engineering, finance, and architecture teams to monitor, analyse, and optimise cloud spending. You’ll use tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Cloudwatch, and Terraform to identify savings, support cost transparency, and implement cost-effective solutions.
Collaboration and technical expertise are essential, along with strong analytical skills and a proactive mindset — you’ll diagnose issues, suggest improvements, and help ensure our cloud infrastructure remains secure, efficient, and aligned with business needs.
Please note this post is a Fixed Term Appointment for 47 months.
At this role level, you will:
* provide specialist technical support and assistance to projects, ensuring delivery of non-functional requirements and continual service improvement,
* be responsible for preparations and support of IT operations solutions and services - physical or virtual - according to industry and organisational best practices, standards, service requirements and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) throughout the product life cycle,
* coach and mentor junior team members,
* assist in the provision of first class services and consistent levels of capability, as required by the organisation.
An infrastructure operations engineer supports, manages and maintains the core infrastructure that underpins production services.
A senior infrastructure operations engineer acts as second- or third-line support for incidents, problems and changes to solutions and services.
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