Cloud Systems Engineer

Salary: £123,500 - 130,000 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
• Strong experience with Terraform
• Experience with Ansible automation
• Linux administration experience
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Scripting experience with Bash and/or Python
• Experience with cloud networking, 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 with 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
• Docker
• ELK
• GCP
• GitOps
• Grafana
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Prometheus
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• DevOps

More:

We are a global leader in payment technology and a FinTech company supporting mission-critical financial services platforms used by businesses around the world. We are growing our cloud infrastructure team in Manchester and offer a hybrid working model with three days onsite. This is a long-term contract opportunity with strong extension potential, where you will work across modern cloud technologies in a highly collaborative engineering culture alongside software engineering and platform teams.

last updated 31 week of 2026