Cloud Systems Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Commercial experience as a Cloud Engineer, Systems Engineer, Platform Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Good commercial experience with AWS
• Terraform experience is essential
• Ansible automation experience
• Linux administration experience
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Bash and/or Python scripting experience
• Cloud networking experience, including VPCs, IAM, load balancers and routing
• Experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD
• Strong understanding of cloud security and best practices
• Experience with GKE and/or Amazon EKS is highly desirable
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana or CloudWatch is highly desirable
• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux is highly desirable
• Experience with service mesh technologies is highly desirable
• Experience in PCI DSS or regulated financial environments is highly desirable
• Experience with FinOps or cloud cost optimisation is highly desirable
• Experience with ELK Stack or centralised logging is highly desirable
• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning is highly desirable
• Professional AWS or GCP certifications are highly desirable

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks for automation and configuration management
• Build resilient, secure and highly available cloud environments
• Work closely with development teams to support application deployments
• Improve automation, monitoring and operational efficiency
• Optimise cloud performance and spend across multiple environments
• Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Implement networking, security and disaster recovery best practices
• Produce clear technical documentation and infrastructure standards

Technologies:

• AWS
• Ansible
• ArgoCD
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• DevOps
• Docker
• ELK
• GCP
• GitOps
• Grafana
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Prometheus
• Python
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are a global leader in payment technology and a FinTech organisation with a growing cloud infrastructure team based in Manchester/Stockport. This is a hybrid role with 3 days onsite, offering the chance to work across both Google Cloud Platform and AWS on mission-critical financial services platforms. You will join an established engineering function where automation, Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices are central, within a highly collaborative culture and a long-term programme with strong extension potential.

last updated 31 week of 2026