Cloud and Platform Engineer - Consultant - Permanent - SC Eligible
Location: London, Manchester, Glasgow + other locations
Salary up to £55,000 + Benefits
Hybrid Working Model
SC Eligibility essential
A global transformation client is looking for multiple Cloud, Platform & Reliability Engineering Consultants to join a leading practise within the business working across digital transformation projects.
You’ll work across one or more of the following disciplines: cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
This role will you design, innovate, optimize, build, and run infrastructure and platforms. Depending on your specialism, this could mean designing and provisioning cloud infrastructure, building internal developer platforms and self-service tooling, running CI/CD automation, defining and monitoring SLOs and leading incident response, or engineering resilient infrastructure at scale.
As part of your role, you will:
- Work with architects and cross-discipline teams to design and implement CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform tooling suited to the team’s needs
- Be responsible for infrastructure and platform provisioning, configuration, build, deployment, and monitoring using Infrastructe-as-Code
- Define and implement what good observability practices look like for clients, track reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs/error budgets) and participate in incident response where relevant to your specialism
- Build and maintain internal developer platforms, golden paths, or self-service tooling that improve developer experience
- Work with clients and internal teams to shape new engineering opportunities and grow a strong DevOps/SRE/platform culture
- Provide operational support: monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution
- Conduct systems tests for security, performance, resilience, and availability
- Share your knowledge, coach and mentor colleagues, and grow your own skills by experimenting across adjacent disciplines
Your Profile
Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering
- Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi
- Configuration management: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Packer
- Networking, virtualisation, and compute provisioning
Platform Engineering
- Building or operating internal developer platforms (e.g. Backstage, Port, Cortex, OpsLevel)
- Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
- Designing golden paths and self-service tooling for engineering teams
DevOps & CI/CD
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.
- Version control: Git, GitHub, GitLab
- Working in agile team environments
Site Reliability Engineering
- Defining and operating against SLIs/SLOs/error budgets
- Incident response, on-call practices, and post-incident review
- Observability and monitoring: Grafana, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry