Cloud Engineer

• Design, build and operate our multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud platform across at least two of the top-three providers (AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud), plus on-prem/hybrid connectivity where needed.
• Build and own an internal developer platform and self-service "golden paths" that make cloud infrastructure feel invisible and commoditised for engineering, data and product teams; and their AI agents.
• Deliver everything as code: infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, reusable modules, CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code guardrails.
• Leverage AI agents extensively to automate and optimise platform work - provisioning, cost and performance optimisation, incident response, remediation and documentation.
• Prepare the infrastructure for AI agents as first-class "engineers": safe machine identities, scoped permissions, sandboxes, approval workflows and audit trails so agents can provision and operate infrastructure within tight guardrails.
• Embed a zero-trust security model across identity, network, workloads and data for both human and machine/agent identities; secure by default, least privilege, secrets management and continuous compliance.
• Apply SRE practices - SLOs/SLIs, observability, capacity planning, resilience and blameless incident management - to keep the platform reliable and cost-efficient.
• Partner with data engineering to design and optimise data pipelines, data stores and large-scale analytics infrastructure such as BigQuery, including query, cost and performance tuning.
• Mentor engineers, set technical direction and champion strong platform and security engineering standards across the organisation.

Cloud Platform Engineer – Senior/Lead

• Operate, maintain, and continuously improve the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform.
• Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and performance across hybrid cloud environments.
• Perform complete platform lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Participate in a rotating on-call support schedule within a four-person team.
• Design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Manage networking, storage, security, and cluster services.
• Develop reusable container platform standards, templates, and base images.
• Support business application teams in adopting cloud-native technologies and containerized workloads.
• Provide architectural guidance for high availability, disaster recovery, and workload resilience.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Build reusable automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies.
• Improve operational efficiency through scripting and automation.
• Standardize platform configuration management and orchestration.
• Design and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines into infrastructure deployment processes.
• Promote DevOps best practices across infrastructure and application delivery teams.
• Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to enable automated application deployment.
• Integrate security scanning, compliance controls, and observability into the platform.
• Ensure alignment with Bank security standards, governance, and change management processes.
• Design resilient platform architectures supporting disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Contribute to the Bank’s hybrid cloud strategy and platform roadmap.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements.
• Drive automation initiatives across the infrastructure landscape.
• Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Storage, Cloud, and Application Development teams.
• Support development teams building cloud-native, serverless, and containerized applications.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer

• Build modern, responsive web applications using React and TypeScript
• Design scalable, maintainable UI architectures and reusable component libraries
• Develop backend services, primarily in Python
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs
• Design, build, and operate cloud-native solutions on AWS
• Work with AWS services to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient applications
• Deploy and manage applications in containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation practices
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and software delivery processes
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational best practices
• Support cloud reliability, performance optimisation, and incident resolution
• Apply secure coding principles and cloud security best practices
• Troubleshoot issues across both application and AWS infrastructure layers
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to deliver production-ready systems

Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer – TypeScript, Python, AWS

• Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on AWS
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK
• Build and support scalable, secure and resilient application platforms
• Work closely with engineers developing applications in React, TypeScript and Python
• Support the deployment and operation of frontend and backend services
• Design and manage containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery workflows
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and observability best practices
• Optimise cloud environments for performance, reliability and cost efficiency
• Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Apply cloud security best practices and governance controls
• Contribute to platform automation and developer self-service capabilities
• Help define cloud architecture standards and operational best practices

AWS Cloud Engineer

• Design and implement data pipelines for moving, transforming, and storing data across systems using Azure Data Factory (ADF) or Logic Apps
• Design, develop, and maintain Azure Logic Apps to automate business processes and data workflows by integrating various services (APIs, databases, storage)
• Build and deploy Azure Functions for event-driven tasks, real-time data processing, and system integrations with other Azure services (e.g., Cosmos DB, Blob Storage)
• Develop Python scripts to automate processes, handle data transformation, and support custom business logic
• Collaborate with DevOps, data engineers, and other teams for smooth deployment and operation of solutions
• Create documentation, including technical specifications and architectural diagrams, for the developed solutions

Azure Integration Developer

• Define end-to-end integration architectures across Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Peppermint and enterprise applications.
• Produce solution designs, integration specifications, interface contracts and architecture documentation.
• Design, develop and support integration solutions using Azure Integration Services.
• Build and maintain Azure Functions, Logic Apps and Service Bus-based integrations.
• Develop Dynamics 365 plugins and custom integration components using C# and .NET.
• Support migration activities into Dynamics 365 and Dataverse.

Dynamics 365, Azure Integration Architect

• Provide thought leadership to central government and private enterprise organisations to help them unlock the true value of cloud.
• Participate in modernizing public services to secure critical infrastructure, making a real national impact.
• Work closely with senior leadership and cloud experts, shaping meaningful projects and driving innovation.
• Accelerate your personal and professional development through hands-on experience with cutting-edge cloud solutions.

Senior Cloud Architect – Consulting

• Designing and delivering secure, scalable, and resilient AWS platforms for complex enterprise workloads.
• Architecting large-scale systems covering infrastructure, networking, and security, with a strong understanding of AWS reference architectures.
• Designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud.
• Leading landing zone design and implementation, migration roadmaps, and modernisation programmes.
• Applying Well Architected principles in hands-on technical design, ensuring best practices are consistently met.
• Building cloud-native security solutions to prevent, detect, and remediate risks on AWS.
• Using a wide range of AWS services (including both platform and workload focused services) in production environments.
• Designing and delivering workloads using a wide range of AWS services including; AWS Organizations, CloudTrail, SecurityHub, GuardDuty, IAM and IAM Identity Center.
• Providing technical leadership to cross-functional delivery teams and setting technical direction for enterprise-scale cloud projects.

Senior Cloud Technical Architect – AWS

• Building, testing, packaging, deploying and operating cloud platforms alongside shared platform tooling within AWS environments
• Automating the build of infrastructure resources within AWS
• Packaging services into AMIs, Docker containers or Serverless deployments
• Creating IaC using Terraform
• Delivering platform improvements and new tools
• Building AWS resources using infrastructure as code using Terraform (or CloudFormation) and Packer
• Delivering within an agile environment
• Kubernetes administration

Cloud Engineer – AWS, Multiple

• Define and execute the Cloud Security strategy, aligned with wider business objectives and growth plans.
• Shape the future direction of the Cloud practice, identifying emerging technologies, market trends, and new service opportunities.
• Lead the strategic adoption of AI and cloud security technologies to enhance both customer outcomes and internal capabilities.
• Build and maintain a roadmap that ensures the organisation remains at the forefront of cloud security innovation.
• Work with managers across the Cloud practice to develop a high-performing team of Cloud Security Consultants and Technical Specialists.
• Act as a senior technical and strategic advisor to clients.
• Drive capability development across Microsoft Azure, AWS Security, emerging AI security platforms, etc.
• Support sales forecasting, pipeline development, and service expansion initiatives.

Head of Cloud Engineering

• Define and own the architecture strategy across Microsoft technologies, cloud, End User Computing, identity and access management (Active Directory and Microsoft Entra), and Windows Server, ensuring alignment to business priorities
• Act as design authority, governing and approving solutions through the Technical Design Authority to ensure consistency with enterprise standards
• Produce high-level designs and assure the quality and approval of low-level designs, ensuring all outputs meet standards and are fully documented
• Provide design assurance throughout delivery, ensuring solutions remain aligned to architecture and transition smoothly into aid with full operational readiness
• Define and embed non-functional requirements, including performance, security, scalability, resilience and operability, ensuring they are measurable and consistently applied
• Identify technical debt, capability gaps and risks, shaping a strategic roadmap that drives resilience, modernisation, security and cost efficiency
• Monitor platform health and prioritise improvement initiatives that strengthen performance and long-term sustainability
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align architecture with business strategy, growth plans and transformation priorities
• Provide oversight during delivery, ensuring adherence to architecture, early risk identification and effective governance of any deviations
• Manage supplier and vendor engagement, assisting selection, evaluation and performance, ensuring solutions align to architectural standards
• Stay current with emerging technologies, trends and regulatory requirements, keeping the architecture modern and adaptable
• Shape a scalable, secure and cost-effective technology landscape, enabling cloud adoption, modern workplace capabilities and future growth
• Help strategic deliberation through clear technical insight, risk assessment and cost-benefit evaluation
• Drive architecture maturity, enabling a more integrated, data-led and cloud-enabled environment that improves teamwork, mobility and productivity

Domain Architect – Microsoft, Cloud

• As a Cloud Architect, you will act as a hands-on cloud expert who has experience with building cloud platforms. You will work across the Cloud Engineering BU’s portfolio of clients.
• Use your expert tech knowledge to influence the direction of projects.
• Able to design Cloud Platforms with the ability to incorporate best practices from cloud providers into the design. You will either implement these platforms solo, or as part of a bigger team.
• Experience in leading/managing people onsite with clients, but being a team player as part of a team of engineers within AND.
• Good at both writing documentation and presenting solutions, able to clearly express complex thoughts.
• Flexible and responsive to people and client needs and opportunities, able to balance conflicting demands on time and priorities.
• Growth mind, naturally curious and challenging and process minded.
• Knowledge of containerisation, orchestration (Kubernetes), and serverless architectures
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) using tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation, CI/CD pipelines, Jira and Jenkins

AWS Cloud Architect

• Ensure the day-to-day health, availability, performance, and security of our AWS cloud platform.
• Operate and support containerised workloads on AWS ECS/Fargate, managing deployments, scaling, health checks, secrets, and rollbacks.
• Maintain and improve cloud networking, including VPCs, Route 53, load balancing, TLS, and certificate management.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to ensure consistent, version-controlled environments.
• Manage our multi-account AWS landing zone, including environment separation, centralised logging, and shared platform standards.
• Improve platform resilience through incident response, disaster recovery, backup testing, business continuity, and high-availability planning.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, observability (Datadog), and operational monitoring to enable reliable, low-risk deployments.
• Maintain a secure, compliant platform through IAM, network security, Secure SDLC practices, and support for DSPT and Cyber Essentials requirements.
• Optimise cloud costs, document platform processes, and share technical knowledge across engineering teams.
• Lead and coordinate platform delivery by managing priorities, maintaining the team backlog, supporting on-call activities, and guiding engineers and technical partners.

Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

• Own technical reviews of complex Catalyst, IOS-XE, Meraki switching, and cloud-management issues from Support, escalations, or bug reports.
• Drive issues from unclear symptoms to clear problem statements, impact assessments, and actionable plans.
• Use CLI outputs, packet captures, logs, topology, lab reproductions, and firmware context to validate or disprove suspected defects.
• Coordinate various teams across Support, Engineering, Product Management, and Sales to resolve customer-impacting issues.
• Translate field findings into product-quality feedback, supportability improvements, documentation, training, and prevention of recurring issues.

Cloud Switching BE Escalation Engineer

• Managing complex Microsoft 365 and Azure support cases from start to resolution
• Acting as a technical escalation point for 2nd Line Engineers
• Troubleshooting and resolving Azure infrastructure issues
• Supporting hybrid identity environments including Active Directory, Entra ID, AD Connect, MFA and Conditional Access
• Managing complex Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams and Intune issues
• Automating tasks and improving efficiency using PowerShell
• Investigating recurring issues and identifying permanent solutions
• Supporting project transitions into BAU support
• Managing escalations with Microsoft support
• Mentoring and developing junior engineers
• Contributing to continuous service improvement and technical best practice

Azure Engineer

• Design and build core components of Samsara's Cloud Governance Platform, contributing hands-on to cloud IAM, security controls, compliance enforcement, and software supply-chain security capabilities.
• Contribute to the roadmap for governance and security tooling across AWS and GCP, bringing engineering judgment to prioritization discussions.
• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into automated, continuously enforced controls through direct implementation.
• Build and maintain software supply-chain security tooling, including SAST, DAST, and secure CI/CD pipeline patterns.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, and Product Engineering teams to implement solutions for cross-functional risk and governance problems.
• Share technical knowledge with teammates through code reviews, pairing, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Clearly communicate technical approach, tradeoffs, and risks in design docs and team discussions.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Security Platform

• Mature the cloud architecture strategy, defining architectural standards and best practices for deployment and management.
• Develop and maintain reference architecture assets e.g. roadmaps, blueprints and patterns that are aligned with the HL vision and strategy for cloud platforms.
• Lead the AWS design of secure and scalable cloud platforms, ensuring resilience and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to ensure seamless cloud integration with existing and future platforms.
• Develop and mature robust technical governance for AWS including cost optimisation and compliance.
• Manage any architectural issues (e.g. technical debt), risks and escalations, documenting and raising via the appropriate governance structures.
• Advise on cloud platform topics, migration strategies, and cloud solutions (cloud native and hybrid).
• Support operational and engineering colleagues through identifying opportunities to optimise cloud resources, performance and cost through continuous monitoring and automation.
• Ensure compliance with relevant frameworks, including ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and UK financial regulations.
• Support cloud capabilities internally through the mentoring of new colleagues and technical teams such as Operations and Engineering, on strong architectural discipline, cloud best practices, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, tools and technologies.

Cloud Platform Architect

• An opportunity has arisen to recruit an Azure Cloud Engineer to join our IT team from our Leeds office, who will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of the organisation’s Microsoft Azure environment, with a strong emphasis on cloud governance, landing zone architecture, and operational excellence.****This role is primarily focused on establishing and maturing a secure, scalable, and well-governed Azure platform, including the design and implementation of a cloud landing zone aligned with best practices. The role will also play a key part in integrating acquired businesses into the Azure tenant, and in migrating workloads from on-premises VMware environments to Azure. In addition to core infrastructure responsibilities, the role includes a DevOps enablement dimension, supporting the adoption of modern deployment practices (CI/CD), infrastructure automation, and collaboration with a small internal development team.****Operating within a small central team, the successful candidate will provide senior technical support and escalation expertise for complex cloud and infrastructure issues, whilst also managing small projects and driving continuous improvement across the IT estate.

Azure Cloud Engineer

• Act as the lead engineer on Product Engineering epics and stories.
• Develop (“operationalize”) new repeatable Ensono public cloud services and solutions.
• Define and evolve public cloud technical standards to ensure repeatability, supportability, scalability, and security.
• Make recommendations on technical stack including research, assessments, bake-offs, and proof of concepts.
• Assess and onboard new AWS and GCP services in line with the Product roadmap.
• Drive the deployment of automated infrastructure and systems using IAC, config management, and scripting.
• Provide subject matter expertise and advice to pre-sales architects on our technical standards.
• Act as a final line of escalation and assistance for the cloud operations team for major problems.
• Proactively keep up to date on public cloud services and related technology.

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS/GCP

• Partner directly with the CTO to own the Azure technical strategy, reference architecture and roadmap, translating business goals into a coherent, evolving multi-region design.
• Build and lead a global infrastructure team, hiring, mentoring and setting the technical standards, ways of working and quality bar they operate to.
• Own and evolve the foundations of the estate: landing zones, management group/subscription topology, naming and tagging standards, and the governance baseline the wider organisation builds on.
• Architect for global resilience, including multi-region topologies, availability zones, geo-redundancy, failover and defined RTO/RPO targets, and prove it through testing rather than assumption.
• Own secure, performant global networking: virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, peering, hub-and-spoke, VPN/ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Front Door/Traffic Manager, private endpoints and DNS.
• Maintain and advance the security model end to end: identity (Entra ID), RBAC, Key Vault, encryption, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Zero Trust principles.
• Own compliance across multiple jurisdictions, including data residency and sovereignty, mapping controls to relevant frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, regional equivalents) and evidencing them for audit.
• Govern at scale with Azure Policy, authoring definitions and initiatives, applying them across scopes, and managing remediation.
• Maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code in Bicep: reusable modules, parameterised deployments, and integration into CI/CD pipelines with what-if, policy and security gates.
• Own compute architecture across Virtual Machines (sizing, availability zones/sets, scale sets) and App Services (web apps, deployment slots), with clear scaling and capacity strategies.
• Own data platforms across SQL Server on VMs (IaaS) and PaaS (Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance), including HA/DR, geo-replication and migration.
• Mature telemetry and observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights) and the operational practices, alerting, automation, runbooks, cost management, that keep the estate healthy.
• Produce and maintain clear architecture documentation, conceptual, network topology, data-flow and deployment diagrams, tailored to engineering, security/compliance and executive audiences, and keep them current as the estate evolves.
• Drive constant technical progression: continuously evaluate new Azure capabilities and emerging practices, including AI-assisted IaC and agentic operations, and modernise the platform rather than letting it stand still.

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