Senior Cloud Engineer

Enclave Solutions
Edinburgh, UK
2 months ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
£70,000.0 - £74,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Security Cloud Engineering Code Review DevOps Monitoring of Systems Software Architecture Prometheus Datadog Cloud Platform System Multi-Cloud
+8 more
Git Cloudformation Containerization Kubernetes Cloud Migration Cloudwatch Terraform Docker

Job description

Enclave Solutions is looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Edinburgh. You’ll play a key role in designing, building and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure while mentoring junior engineers and driving engineering best practices.

Working closely with Product, QA and DevOps teams, you’ll contribute to the technical direction of our cloud platform and help deliver high-quality, secure infrastructure that supports business growth., * Design, develop and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.

  • Lead technical design discussions and architectural decisions.
  • Write clean, maintainable and well-tested infrastructure-as-code.
  • Review code and mentor junior engineers.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new features and platform improvements.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term solutions.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and engineering best practices.
  • Champion cloud security, performance, and cost optimisation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years’ commercial cloud engineering experience.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure (multi-cloud experience a plus).
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
  • Strong understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture principles.
  • Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Desirable

  • Relevant cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, etc.).
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus).
  • Knowledge of automated testing frameworks.
  • Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical projects.
  • Background in cost optimisation and cloud migration projects.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Annual leave
  • Life insurance
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Free parking
  • Company pension
  • Private medical insurance
  • Cycle to work scheme, * Annual performance bonus
  • Hybrid working (3 days office / 2 days home)
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Enhanced pension contribution
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance (4x salary)
  • Annual salary review
  • £1,500 annual learning & development budget
  • Paid professional certifications
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Free on-site parking
  • Regular team socials and company events

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If you’re passionate about building high-quality cloud infrastructure, enjoy solving complex technical challenges and want to work with a collaborative engineering team, we’d love to hear from you.

Pay: £70,000.00-£74,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company pension
  • Free parking
  • Life insurance
  • On-site parking

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