Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Location: Reading (hybrid working)

Type: Permanent, full-time

Salary: £45k-£65k DOE

A growing software business in Reading is hiring a Cloud Engineer to help build out and scale its cloud infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role with real ownership, working closely with the Engineering Lead on both architecture and day-to-day delivery. You’ll play a key part in building a modern Kubernetes platform, migrating environments across, and running it day to day.

What you’ll be doing

• Build and scale a modern Kubernetes platform
• Design and write Terraform to deploy cloud infrastructure cleanly and repeatably
• Migrate existing environments onto the platform
• Own and operate clusters across multiple environments
• Build out backup, snapshot and recovery processes
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Set up monitoring, alerting and observability
• Take ownership of reliability and uptime as the platform grows

Essential

• Experience with Kubernetes – managing clusters day to day
• Experience with Terraform – writing and maintaining infrastructure as code
• Familiar with a major cloud platform – AWS or GCP preferred
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar)
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
• An operational mindset – reliability, observability and automation, not just deployment

Desirable

• Good understanding of cloud security and access management
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch or similar)
• Scripting or automation skills (Bash, Python, Go, etc)
• Experience supporting cloud migrations or platform modernisation
• Exposure to regulated or compliance-led environments

What’s on offer

• A greenfield project with real ownership – shape and build the platform from the ground up
• Close collaboration with the Engineering Lead on technical direction
• Clear career progression and scope to grow as the platform and team expand
• Permanent role, hybrid working
• £45k-£65k depending on experience
• Modern office in Reading with free on-site parking

How to apply

Submit your CV to be considered, and we’ll be in touch with the full details.

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