Cloud Developer

Join a forward-thinking team at the forefront of cloud innovation, where your work will directly influence the future of digital research infrastructure. As a Cloud Developer, you'll play a key role in designing, building, and delivering platform-agnostic solutions that operate effectively across hybrid cloud environments.

You'll champion cloud-native principles to create systems that are scalable, secure, and resilient, while enabling the integration of diverse datasets, platforms, and tools into a cohesive, interoperable ecosystem. Your technical expertise will have a tangible impact, empowering researchers and partners to address complex, real-world challenges.

You'll be part of a growing, multidisciplinary team that values collaboration, sustainability, and innovation. Working closely with environmental researchers, UX designers, software engineers, data scientists, and solution architects, you'll help co-design user-focused infrastructure that delivers meaningful outcomes. Agile practices and user-centred design will underpin everything you do.

This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge initiatives, including:

• Building scalable cloud infrastructure for research
• Designing and implementing data lake solutions
• Developing digital twins for complex systems
• Creating collaborative platforms with FAIR data access
• Leading innovative, high-impact digital programmes

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the architecture and development of cloud-based solutions across hybrid environments, ensuring security, compliance, and best-practice standards.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, RSEs, and semantic experts to deliver robust, scalable digital research solutions.
• Shape the future of digital research infrastructure by contributing to proposals, defining deliverables, and aligning projects with strategic objectives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
• Contribute to thought leadership through technical publications, reports, and knowledge sharing with the wider community.
• Champion cloud-native, DevOps, and Agile practices to improve delivery, interoperability, and innovation.
• Engage stakeholders through workshops and co-design sessions to ensure solutions are relevant, usable, and impactful.

Do you have experience in Leadership?, Do you have a Doctoral degree?, * A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline (PhD or equivalent practical experience welcomed).

• Proven experience leading the design and delivery of cloud-native, distributed systems (e.g. microservices, serverless) on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong experience in API development, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (AKS experience desirable).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor others and provide technical leadership.
• Experience applying Agile methodologies and co-design approaches to deliver high-impact software.
• A passion for emerging cloud technologies and modern software architecture.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to align technology solutions to real-world research needs.