Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

IT
United Kingdom
July 16, 2026
Full Time Remote
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Job Description

Are you an experienced cloud infrastructure professional with a passion for automation, scalability, and DevOps? A leading global research technology company is hiring a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help design, build, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure while supporting engineering teams with modern CI/CD practices and cloud-native technologies. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more in a remote-first environment.

Location: London, United Kingdom (Remote Eligible)
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and related automation tools.
  • Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery.
  • Collaborate with software engineering teams to provide infrastructure expertise on development projects.
  • Automate deployment processes and eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
  • Enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve application reliability and performance.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot production infrastructure issues.
  • Support cloud platform expansion and continuous improvement initiatives across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Requirements
  • Proven experience working in cloud infrastructure roles with a strong focus on AWS and DevOps practices.
  • Hands-on experience managing AWS services and familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • Experience with automation tools such as Ansible or Packer.
  • Excellent knowledge of Docker containers and containerized application deployment.
  • Solid understanding of Git, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous integration tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
  • Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, Golang, Java, Ruby, or Node.js.
  • Good understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern application deployment practices.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, or PagerDuty.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience administering Kubernetes clusters.
  • Knowledge of cloud networking, including VPC routing and Layer 4/Layer 7 networking.
  • Experience managing DNS infrastructure and HTTP APIs.
  • Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including security groups, network ACLs, and threat management.
  • Experience managing Windows Server environments in AWS.
  • Familiarity with continuous deployment strategies such as Blue/Green deployments or load balancer traffic shifting.

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