over 1 year ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead cloud engineering work in cross-functional teams and make final decisions on difficult technical issues.
- Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available cloud architectures and resources.
- Use Terraform or CloudFormation to provision and manage infrastructure, containers, networking, security, and access controls.
- Develop automated provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and CI/CD processes for cloud resources and application deployments.
- Implement performance optimization, load balancing, caching, content delivery, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Provide high-tier client application and infrastructure support, including occasional on-call coverage.
- Consult with clients, promote cloud best practices, and contribute thought leadership to the Cloud Practice.
- Line manage and mentor junior colleagues and support their career development and performance.
- Maintain compliance standards, relevant certifications, and current knowledge of cloud technologies.
Requirements
- Significant prior experience in a cloud engineering leadership role and a strong foundation in building and deploying cloud services.
- Deep knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Hands-on experience delivering software in multiple programming languages and understanding modern software engineering practices.
- Deep experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerisation and orchestration tools.
- Experience architecting cloud infrastructure through deployment and ongoing support.
- Experience collaborating in multidisciplinary teams involving product, design, and technical disciplines.
- Understanding of DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering in modern digital organisations.
- Experience in a technology consultancy environment is desirable.
- Relevant cloud certifications, including AWS or Azure certifications, are desirable.
- Knowledge of AWS APN, Azure Partners, well-architected frameworks, UK public sector guidance, NCSC CAF, or TCoP is desirable.
- Familiarity with Python, Bash, JavaScript, Scrum, XP, Kanban, and Test Driven Development is desirable.
- Eligibility for SC security clearance requires five years of continuous UK residency and a five-year employment history, or history back to full-time education.
Benefits
- 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Flexible working hours.
- Flexible parental leave options.
- Part-time remote working for all staff.
- Paid counselling plus financial and legal advice.
- Flexible benefits platform with a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, health care cash plan, and pension plan.
- Optional social and wellbeing events calendar.
- Inclusive workplace with communities of practice and employee community groups.
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About Made Tech
Made Tech designs, builds, and operates digital services for the UK public sector, including central government, local authorities, and the NHS. Its consulting-led model covers agile delivery, cloud engineering, DevOps, and bespoke software across technologies like Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Go. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, the company is publicly listed and has delivered services such as Homes for Ukraine and digital access to NHS support.