Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Target Group

Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer responsible for designing and optimizing AWS architectures. Mentoring engineers while ensuring security and best practices in cloud engineering at Target Group.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeCardiff • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £50,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudJenkinsKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Acting as a senior technical authority for DevOps, cloud engineering and AWS platform design
Leading the design, deployment and optimisation of secure, scalable and highly available AWS architectures
Defining engineering standards, patterns and best practices for infrastructure, networking, security and automation
Providing technical leadership for AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Route 53, load balancing and hybrid connectivity
Championing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and GitOps approaches using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI
Embedding security, observability, compliance and reliability into cloud-native and hybrid platforms
Mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions and helping raise capability across the wider engineering community

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security
Deep expertise in AWS networking, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB and PrivateLink
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and/or CloudFormation
Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, containerisation and Kubernetes/EKS, plus strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell
Desirable (but not essential): experience supporting large-scale data or analytics platforms
Knowledge of Zero Trust and identity-centric security models
Experience with SIEM/SOC tooling and cloud threat detection capabilities
Exposure to AWS Control Tower, Organisations and multi-account governance
AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, Security Specialty or FinOps-related accreditation
A degree in Computer Science, IT, Cloud Computing or a related discipline

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
30 days holiday plus bank holidays – from day one
Hybrid working policy
Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (employer matched up to 6%)
Company‑paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind)
Group Life Assurance
Group Income Protection
Discretionary annual bonus scheme
Annual pay review
My Flex benefits platform – access to a wide range of voluntary benefits
Technology Buying Scheme (salary sacrifice)
Gym Flex – discounted gym and health club memberships
Dental Insurance
Critical Illness Cover
Health Cash Plan
Cycle to Work scheme
Tastecard / Coffee Club
Employee Discount Scheme across hundreds of retailers
Wisdom Wellbeing – confidential health and wellbeing support, including EAP
Free flu vaccinations and eye tests, plus contributions towards glasses
Recognition Scheme celebrating successes across the business
Free mortgage advice and support
Charitable payroll giving
Access to a GP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through GP24
Everest Funeral Concierge
Free Bereavement and Probate Advice and Support
Enhanced parental leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCloudFormationCI/CDGitOpsKubernetesPythonBashPowerShell

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringguiding architectural decisions

Certifications

AWS Solutions ArchitectAWS SysOpsAWS Security SpecialtyFinOps-related accreditation