Cloud Engineering Lead
Location: Southwest Wiltshire (Hybrid, 3 days on-site a week)
Salary: Negotiable depending on experience
Security: Must be eligible for SC Clearance
Copello are working with a leading defence organisation who are seeking a Cloud Engineering Lead to provide technical oversight across secure cloud platforms supporting complex, mission-critical defence programmes.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and mentor cloud engineers, providing technical direction across platform and infrastructure teams.
• Shape the architecture and design of secure cloud solutions aligned to programme requirements.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native technologies, DevSecOps and CI/CD practices.
• Ensure security, compliance and governance standards are maintained across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and contribute to technical design and programme delivery.
Experience Required
• Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud architecture (certifications desirable).
• Background in DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments.
• Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker or OpenShift.
• Good understanding of cloud security, governance and highly regulated environments.
• Ability to lead technical teams within complex engineering programmes.
Desirable: experience within defence, national security or other regulated sectors, plus scripting/automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash) would be advantageous.