Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on technical leader who thrives in AWS, DevOps automation, cloud networking and security . If you enjoy shaping engineering standards, mentoring others and building resilient platforms that enable modern delivery at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

What can you expect?

As a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer , you'll be a technical leader responsible for designing, building, securing and optimising cloud infrastructure and networking on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.

You'll lead by example through hands-on engineering while providing technical direction, standards and guidance across our DevOps and cloud engineering community. From shaping highly scalable, resilient and cost-efficient platforms to influencing tooling, automation and operational excellence, you'll play a key role in how we build for the future.

Working closely with DevOps, Security, SRE, platform and delivery teams, you'll help shape secure-by-design architectures, drive best practice in automation and reliability, and support a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement.

What you'll be doing

• 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, You'll be joining a team that genuinely:
• Celebrates success through our My Recognition portal
• Invests in your development with regular feedback and support
• Cares about wellbeing as much as delivery
• Encourages curiosity, innovation and best practice

We're committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive culture through the execution of our D&I strategy, community relationships, our people & leaders.

We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and collaboration skills - someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and supporting others to do their best work.

• 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

Permanent | Hybrid (flexible) | Up to £50,000, Why join Target?

We're proud to offer a competitive and flexible benefits package , designed to support your wellbeing, lifestyle and career growth:

Core Benefits

• 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

Flexible & Lifestyle Benefits

• 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

Wellbeing & Support

• 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