Cloud Engineer

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in cloud migration
• Experience in cloud platform architecture with AWS, including defining cloud reference architectures and cloud patterns in a large multi-account AWS estate
• Extensive AWS experience and experience solving complex business issues
• Recognised as an AWS subject matter expert
• Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD tools
• Experience with AWS security services and network services
• Experience working within an Agile framework
• Good understanding of AWS security concepts and cyber security goals
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to motivate the team to use new tools to improve efficiency and set new standards
• Security Clearance is required, and applicants must be eligible to go through the clearance process

Responsibilities:

• Take on the technical lead role in migration enablement work
• Work with development teams to deliver migration services using common code, standards and artefact formats, and proactively drive collaboration where there are service dependencies
• Define and document AWS architecture for migration, including baseline, target, roadmap, patterns, standards and reference architectures
• Run architectural reviews of the platform at appropriate intervals to take best advantage of vendor technologies
• Define, optimise, automate, publish and communicate deployment patterns for migration
• Support engineering teams in optimising the migration path
• Act as an escalation point for engineering teams in troubleshooting and incident management
• Drive the adoption of automation in the platform using common methods with other platforms
• Document deployed systems, scripts and working practices to enable reuse and support users across the world

Technologies:

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• Support
• Network
• Security
• Architect

More:

We are BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts working collaboratively across 10 countries to help governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses unlock digital advantage in demanding environments. This role is based in Manchester, and we offer hybrid working with at least 3 days per week in the office. We support work-life balance with flexible and part-time working, 25 days holiday plus buy/sell and carry over options, private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more. You will have a dedicated Career Manager, access to our company bonus scheme, and the opportunity to join our Diversity and Support groups. You will be joining our National Security business, our largest UK business area, where we work to be the most trusted partner for National Security clients and continue growing our team across security and law enforcement customers. We are a consultancy and products business with a strong culture of diversity, inclusion, collaboration and hybrid working.

last updated 30 week of 2026