Senior Cloud Engineer

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Senior Cloud Engineer developing and maintaining cloud platforms and DevOps capabilities for VitalHub in the UK. Responsible for ensuring stability, security, and cost-effectiveness of cloud solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the design, evolution, and operation of cloud platforms and DevOps capabilities across the UK product portfolio, covering infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling
  • Contribute to the technical direction for cloud architecture, including environment structure, network topology, identity and access models, and shared platform services, in alignment with global cloud teams.
  • Support the development and promotion of standards and reference approaches for infrastructure as code, configuration management, and environment provisioning, ensuring repeatability and auditability.
  • Design, implement, and improve DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, release and deployment strategies, environment promotion, and change management.
  • Ensure cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines are secure and resilient, working with DevSecOps and InfoSec on access controls, secrets management, network security, and pipeline hardening.
  • Maintain robust foundations for stability and recovery, including disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, runbooks, and regular recovery testing.
  • Manage cloud cost through informed architectural decisions, capacity planning, scaling strategies, and service selection, using cost data to guide trade-offs rather than enforcing blanket controls.
  • Promote transparency and visibility of cloud costs back into teams working on the products.
  • Mentor and coach other members of the team to improve their skills and promote best practices.
  • Work closely with engineering teams to ensure deployment, monitoring, and operational approaches align with application architecture and how systems are built and maintained.
  • Work collaboratively, explaining technical decisions clearly and bringing teams along through support, guidance, and shared ownership rather than enforcement.

Requirements:

  • Experience with developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (terraform etc.) to a high standard
  • Experience with deploying and maintaining workloads in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
  • Comfortable working directly with engineering teams in a collaborative approach
  • Experience with DevOps tooling and processes (ci/cd pipelines, observability and reliability)
  • Networking knowledge

Benefits:

  • Remote & flexible working
  • 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
  • Support to grow through professional learning & development courses
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Inclusive approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Events – networking and social
  • PDP – progression & internal career opportunities
  • Death in Service
  • Regular training workshops