Senior Cloud Engineer

Chetwood Bank

Senior Cloud Engineer leading and coordinating cloud-related projects. Collaborating across teams to innovate on medium to large engineering problems for developer experience.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

- Own large technical components.
- Write high-quality code (appropriate style, patterns, organisation, comments, testability) with feedback and support.
- Follow well-known principles when appropriate e.g. KISS, DRY, SOLID.
- Test code thoroughly and proactively, and use good practices with feedback and support.
- Create small and manageable pull requests.
- Build loosely coupled components.
- Able to design and implement systems that comprise of multiple technical components for a given set of features
- Actively participate in requirements gathering and solution design. Communicate engineering choices/concerns.
- Consider non-functional requirements, and promote good resilience, performance, security, observability, and auditability practices to help other engineers deepen their knowledge.
- Document and share designs. Ensure the designs are peer-reviewed and/or reviewed as part of the appropriate forums, including through Technology Design Authority (TDA) when appropriate.
- Understand continuous integration and the value of integrating small chunks of code into the main branch frequently.
- Proactively communicate progress to your team. Use your experience to unblock yourself on time. Rely on documentation, forums, and technical knowledge to resolve blockers.
- Clearly and confidently articulate the risk of technical problems to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. legal, compliance).
- Consider the impact that your work has on the product, business or customer.
- Demonstrate detailed -SME- knowledge in several domains.
- Actively engage in the roadmap development with your team.
- Use your understanding of system functionality to identify large limitations and impactful enhancements.
- Lead discussions on new or existing tools, technologies, automation, and engineering practices while being pragmatic in what can be changed or introduced vs what needs to be delivered.
- Demonstrate tools/frameworks, and new practices to the wider software engineering chapter (community of practice).
- Take part in initiatives to improve the practices of the engineering discipline.

Requirements

What you’ll need

- Strong experience with AWS, Terraform and GtiHub Actions (or similar tooling).
- Strong understanding of cloud architectures with a focus on efficiency, automation, resilience and auditability.
- Ability to write tests and testable code.
- Ability to write concise and precise documentation.
- Strong experience with distributed version control systems (e.g. Git).
- Experience in building and maintaining infrastructure as code and shared Platform tooling.
- Experience working with and cultivating an Agile approach.
- Experience of practical FinOps and cloud cost control.
- Experience of Azure cloud.
- Advanced numerate degree

Benefits

Comp & perks

- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday PLUS your BIRTHDAY off
- Pension contribution with Royal London
- Life Assurance
- Private medical, dental and optical health insurance with Axa
- Hybrid working – Wrexham
- Free breakfast available

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSTerraformGitHub Actionscloud architectureinfrastructure as codeAgileFinOpsAzuretestable codedocumentation

Soft Skills

communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationleadershipproactivearticulationengagementknowledge sharingpeer reviewroadmap development

Certifications

advanced numerate degree