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Lead Cloud & Platform Engineer
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Cloud & Platform Lead Engineer
Cloud & Platform Lead Engineer required by a large, Manchester based SaaS provider where you'll serve as the team's cloud engineering authority.
Do you have the right skills and experience for this role? Read on to find out, and make your application.
You'll join at a particularly interesting point in the company's evolution as it invests heavily in the modernisation of its software platforms and infrastructure. With a major digital transformation underway and AI becoming an increasingly important part of the technology strategy, the role offers the chance to help shape the future cloud and platform estate of a large SaaS business.
The right candidate is likely to be a senior Site Reliability Engineer or Cloud, Platform or DevOps leader with a strong combination of Azure and AWS experience, already operating at the intersection of engineering, architecture and technology leadership, and who is comfortable bringing hands-on while leading, defining standards, guiding investment decisions and delivering initiatives.
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In return, you'll join a stable and growing SaaS business offering an attractive salary and strong benefits package including an annual bonus, private medical insurance, life assurance, enhanced pension contributions, flexible benefits, ongoing learning and development opportunities, and an initial 26 days holiday including your birthday off.
Requirements
- Experience in Site Reliability, Cloud, Platform or DevOps engineering roles, including technical leadership.
- Experience designing and supporting cloud native solutions across Azure and AWS environments.
- Experience defining cloud and platform architectures, Infrastructure as Code approaches, automation strategies and reusable engineering patterns.
- Experience working with senior technology and business stakeholders to shape technical direction and platform improvements.
- Experience building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar tooling.
- Experience with monitoring, observability and operational support using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog.
- Experience managing cloud cost optimisation and governance.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash and PowerShell.
- Good understanding of cloud networking, security, secure coding practices and compliance requirements.
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