Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Scottish Development International

Lead Cloud Engineer driving cloud transformation at scale in the Scottish Government. Shaping cloud engineering capability for critical digital services in agriculture and rural communities.

Posted 7/14/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £62,111 - £77,439 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading cloud strategy and architecture, with a focus on AWS technologies. Capable of designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable and secure cloud infrastructure while mentoring engineering teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords

AWS Cloud StrategyCloud Infrastructure EngineeringAWS Well Architected FrameworkScalable Cloud SolutionsMentoring Engineers

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Hard Skills

Cloud ArchitectureInfrastructure CodingSystem Improvement EvaluationMonitoring and Alerting ProceduresFault Identification and Resolution

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationCommunication

Industry Keywords

Cloud StrategyCloud PlatformsService DeliveryContinuous ImprovementHigh Availability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the development and implementation of cloud strategy, architecture and engineering standards across AWS estate.
Coding and implementing scalable, secure and supported cloud infrastructure.
Presenting recommendations for technologies or system improvements to support project goals.
Evaluating the success of integrated solutions, identifying best practices and lessons learned.
Ensuring high availability and performance of critical services.
Building internal cloud capability and mentoring engineers.
Supporting innovation and continuous improvement in service delivery.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Your experience enables you to lead strategic improvements across cloud platforms and infrastructure operations.
Your experience engineering cloud-based systems using a range of technologies and the AWS Well Architected Framework enables you to design robust, scalable, and secure solutions.
Your experience of building solutions to highly complex problems using modern cloud technologies allows you to use agreed specifications to independently design, code, test and document infrastructure modules of high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
Your experience developing and deploying live cloud infrastructure allows you to define the monitoring, alerting, and operational procedures of a service to consistently identify, locate and fix faults.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible working hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities