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# Cloud Platform Consultant

- **Company:** 17918
- **Location:** Hurley, UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Linux, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Windows Servers, OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Gitlab, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/41984750/

## About the Role

OpenShift cluster environments Building and automating infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible Supporting containerised platforms using Kubernetes / OpenShift Producing technical designs, documentation and architecture artefacts Working with customers to understand requirements and shape practical solutions Building out architecture frameworks and reusable delivery approaches Supporting test, development and internal platform environments Troubleshooting cloud, Linux, container and automation issues Working across 1-2 customer projects at a time What we're looking for Strong hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure / 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/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 Useful experience Previous consultancy or client-facing project experience Secure / regulated environment experience MOD, defence, public sector or SC-cleared project experience CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins or similar Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana or similar CloudFormation or other IaC tooling Windows Server exposure alongside Linux Knowledge of IAM, networking, VPNs, certificates, resilience and security best practice TPBN1_UKTJ

## Description

Cloud Platform Consultant Permanent Location: Home / Birmingham (1 / 2 days a week) Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 (+ benefits) Skills: AWS, Azure, OpenShift, Red Hat, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes We're looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Consultant to join a growing technical consultancy delivering secure cloud and infrastructure solutions across customer environments. This is a role for someone who enjoys both design and implementation . You will work closely with customers and internal technical teams to design, build and support cloud platforms, automation frameworks and modern infrastructure environments. The role would suit an experienced Cloud / Platform / Infrastructure Engineer who is looking to move further towards architecture, while remaining technically hands-on. What you'll be doing Designing and building secure cloud platform environments, with a strong focus on AWS Supporting cloud implementation projects across AWS and Azure Working with Red Hat Linux and


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