Senior Cloud Engineer

Salary: £45,000 - 83,000 per year

Requirements:

• Deep hands-on AWS expertise at enterprise scale, including multi-account architectures, IAM, KMS, and core compute, storage, and security services
• Real production experience with Azure alongside AWS, including landing zones, VNet architectures, Entra ID, and governance models
• Expert-level Terraform experience, including reusable modules, secure state management, and disciplined code review
• Comfortable working in a Git-based workflow with CI/CD
• Strong cloud networking knowledge, including VPC and VNet design, hub-and-spoke or Transit Gateway/Cloud WAN architectures, DNS, and private connectivity
• Solid experience running containerised workloads in production, ideally on EKS or AKS
• Experience operating in regulated environments with awareness of change control, least privilege, and auditability
• Familiarity with PCI DSS is a strong plus
• Focus on observability and measurement
• Natural ability to guide and mentor peers and translate ambiguous problems into actionable technical plans
• Pragmatic problem-solving mindset, including incident resolution and root-cause analysis
• 5+ years in cloud engineering roles with significant AWS depth
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field is useful but not required

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of large-scale platform projects end to end, from architecture through Terraform to production
• Build scalable, secure, and cost-optimised platform solutions
• Design platform primitives that product teams build on, making the secure path the easy path
• Work with Engineering Managers and architects to refine requirements and shape the technical direction of the platform
• Document significant technical decisions as ADRs
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert for team-owned services and provide advanced operational support
• Ensure high availability for global payment systems
• Produce exemplary code and documentation to spread best practices and standards across the group
• Manage technical dependencies inside and outside the pillar to support delivery speed and business outcomes
• Embody our operating principles and help shape the groups culture
• Explore and implement AI-driven automation to improve infrastructure efficiency and team productivity

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Git
• IAM
• Support
• Security
• Terraform
• ASP.NET
• DevOps
• Kubernetes
• Network
• Python

More:

Were Checkout.com, powering digital experiences for companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony, and enabling over 10 billion transactions each year for more than one billion global shoppers. Our Cloud Platform team owns the cloud foundations behind our global payments platform, including a large multi-account AWS estate, a growing Azure platform, and the networking and connectivity that reaches card schemes and banks worldwide. This is a hands-on senior role in an established, fast-moving team where everything is defined in code, deployed through pipelines, and reviewed like software. We offer a hybrid working model with three days per week in the office, and our London HQ supports our global fintech ambitions across 20 offices on six continents.

last updated 34 week of 2026