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Cloud Platform Engineer
Permanent
Location: Home-based / Birmingham office 1-2 days per week
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000
Skills:
AWS, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, OpenShift, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure
We're looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Engineer to join a growing technical consultancy delivering secure cloud and infrastructure solutions across customer environments.
This role would suit an experienced Cloud, DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineer who enjoys building and supporting technical environments but also wants greater involvement in solution design, customer engagement, and architecture.
You'll work closely with senior consultants, architects, and customer teams to build cloud platforms, automate infrastructure, and contribute to secure, practical technical solutions. You do not need to be an established Solutions Architect, but you should be comfortable discussing technical requirements, documenting designs, and taking ownership of technical delivery.
What you'll be doing
- Building and configuring cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on AWS
- Supporting cloud and platform delivery across AWS and potentially Azure
- Working with Linux environments, ideally including Red Hat
- Deploying and supporting OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms
- Automating infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and related tooling
- Supporting migrations, upgrades, monitoring, resilience, and platform improvements
- Troubleshooting cloud, Linux, container, and infrastructure issues
- Contributing to high-level and low-level technical designs
- Producing implementation documentation, operational handover material, and technical runbooks
- Working directly with customers to understand requirements and resolve technical challenges
- Supporting senior architects and consultants with solution design and technical assurance
- Working across one or two customer projects at a time
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What we're looking for
- Strong hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Good practical AWS experience, including building and supporting cloud environments
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code tool
- Experience with Ansible or similar automation/configuration management tooling
- Exposure to Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
- An understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, monitoring, and resilience
- Comfortable producing technical documentation and contributing to solution designs
- Able to communicate effectively with customers and internal technical teams
- An interest in developing further towards cloud or solution architecture
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Useful experience
- Azure experience
- Previous consultancy or customer-facing project experience
- CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar
- Bash, PowerShell, or Python scripting
- CloudFormation
- Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, or Prometheus
- Secure, regulated, government, or defence environments
- Existing SC clearance or eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance
- AWS, Azure, Red Hat, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications
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