Job Description

Cloud Engineering supports the firm by delivering modern platform capabilities, observability services, and engineering enablement across distributed systems. The Platform Engineering team designs, builds, and maintains the cloud-native platform capabilities that enable engineering teams across the organisation. The platform is treated as an internal product, with a strong emphasis on automation, reliable foundations, reusable modules, and developer‑friendly tooling.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Provide guidance on platform patterns, module structure, CI/CD design, and cloud-native architecture.

• Review designs, PRs and IaC contributions from Engineers, ensuring quality and consistency.

  Cloud Platform Architecture & IaC

• Design and own foundational IaC modules and templates, ensuring versioning, testing, documentation, and maintainability.

• Develop scalable patterns for networking, identity, compute/container runtimes, image registries, secrets and policies.

  DevOps Engineering

• Engineer reusable pipeline templates, security gates, environment promotion rules, and workflow automation.

• Improve deployment reliability, repeatability, and developer experience.

  Platform Development

• Build internal developer tooling, reusable components, platform accelerators, and golden paths.

• Enhance platform automation frameworks to support self‑service capabilities.

  Agile Delivery & Collaboration

• Lead technical spikes, refinement sessions, and design discussions.

• Collaborate closely with other platform teams (Observability, Security, Service Management) to deliver end‑to‑end platform capabilities.

• Manage relationships with stakeholders to become a trusted partner.

• Lead by example by living by Our Values and embracing our culture

Participate in on‑call rotations to support high‑severity incidents resolution in a timely manner.

The Person

• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform, including module development, refactoring, and reusable patterns.
• Proficient in one or more scripting/programming languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for advanced automation tasks.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, templating, approvals, reusable pipeline components, and environment promotion workflows.
• Solid experience working with container platforms (AKS/EKS): networking, ingress, registries, scaling, workload identity.
• Strong grasp of cloud identity & access management (RBAC models, managed identities, least‑privilege patterns).
• Knowledge in cloud networking for enterprise use (routing, private endpoints, NAT, DNS architecture).
• Practical understanding of security fundamentals (secrets management, encryption, policy compliance).
• Ability to translate platform needs into scalable, modular IaC and DevOps improvements.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills for complex distributed systems.

• Demonstrates ownership, problem‑solving ability, and commitment to raising engineering standards.

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