Cloud Platform Consultant

• Design and build secure cloud platform environments, with a strong focus on AWS
• Support cloud implementation projects across AWS and Azure
• Work with Red Hat Linux and OpenShift cluster environments
• Build and automate infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
• Support containerised platforms using Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Produce technical designs, documentation, and architecture artefacts
• Work with customers to understand requirements and shape practical solutions
• Build out architecture frameworks and reusable delivery approaches
• Support test, development, and internal platform environments
• Troubleshoot cloud, Linux, container, and automation issues
• Work across 1-2 customer projects at a time

Technologies:

• AWS
• Ansible
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• GitLab
• Grafana
• IAM
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• OpenShift
• Security
• Terraform
• Windows
• DevOps

• Strong hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure and platform engineering
• Good AWS experience, ideally including secure infrastructure design and build
• Azure experience would also be useful
• Strong Linux background, ideally Red Hat
• Experience with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform
• Automation and configuration management experience, ideally Ansible
• Comfortable producing technical documentation and design material
• Able to work in a customer-facing consultancy environment
• Happy to remain hands-on while also contributing to architecture and solution design
• Good communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Previous consultancy or client-facing project experience is useful
• Experience in secure or regulated environments is useful
• MOD, defence, public sector, or SC-cleared project experience is useful
• CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, or similar is useful
• Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, or similar is useful
• CloudFormation or other IaC tooling is useful
• Windows Server exposure alongside Linux is useful
• Knowledge of IAM, networking, VPNs, certificates, resilience, and security best practice is useful

We are a growing technical consultancy delivering secure cloud and infrastructure solutions across customer environments. We offer a permanent role based from home with 1-2 days a week in Birmingham, and a salary of £70,000 - £80,000 plus benefits. This is a hands-on position for someone who enjoys both design and implementation, and wants to grow further toward architecture while staying technically involved.