Cloud Engineer

Profile 29; City Of London; Remote; GBP 39,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Profile 29 is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for public-sector focused platforms. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and automation across AWS alongside DevSecOps practices.

The position supports a fully remote work arrangement with occasional travel to client sites in London as needed. Applicants must be eligible for SC and DV clearances with a minimum of 10 years UK residency and sole British nationality.

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong knowledge of AWS; experience in Azure or GCP is a plus.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar).
• Experience managing and tuning databases (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with IdAM platforms like Keycloak.
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools for observability.
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS essential).
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Implement IaC using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests.
• Build and manage event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

SRE

Cloud architecture

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Keycloak

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Job description

Cloud Engineer

• Salary to £65k (neg.)
• Role can be fully remote, with paid travel to client site (most likely in London) as required.

This company is a Workflow & AI Orchestration Specialist. They're on a mission to modernise how public sector organisations manage casework, derive insight from data and deliver citizen services.

They operate across two pillars: Advise and Implement to provide end to end technology solutions that integrate cutting edge orchestration and agentic AI capabilities. They're growing fast and looking for bright, dynamic people to help build their business.

NB: Please only apply if you are eligible for SC and DV clearance (i.e. you have min 10 years continuous UK residency and are a sole (not dual) British national).

Role Overview

They're looking for an AWS savy Principal Cloud Engineer to join their growing platform and delivery teams. You'll help design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and performant infrastructure that underpins critical public-sector services.

You'll combine your background in AWS, DevOps, cloud engineering, and automation with a focus on reliability, observability, and scalability. You'll also work with event driven technologies, identity and access management, and data platforms, ensuring their orchestration solutions are resilient, secure, and future-ready.

This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure and automation challenges, automating everything, and shaping secure-by-design delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS essential)
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests
• Build and manage event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or similar messaging systems
• Operate and maintain databases and data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB
• Configure and support identity and access management (IdAM) solutions such as Keycloak
• Monitor system health, performance, and capacity using modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
• Champion DevSecOps practices, embedding security and compliance into every stage of delivery
• Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery processes to improve reliability and reduce manual toil
• Support development teams with environment configuration, secrets management, and container orchestration
• Participate in incident management and root-cause analysis to continuously improve system resilience
• Contribute to internal platform frameworks, templates, and automation accelerators

Essential

• Experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering roles
• Strong knowledge of AWS
• Azure, or GCP environments
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation)
• Working knowledge of event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)
• Experience managing and tuning databases (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with Keycloak or equivalent identity and access management (IdAM) platforms
• Strong scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or Go preferred)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools for observability
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security controls

Desirable

• Experience operating production workloads in the UK public sector or regulated environments
• Familiarity with Camunda or other process orchestration platforms
• Experience implementing DevSecOps frameworks or security automation tools
• Understanding of zero-trust networking and secure-by-design principles
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio, Linkerd)
• Exposure to agentic AI or workflow automation environments

NB: Please only apply if you are eligible for SC and DV clearance (i.e. you have min 10 years continuous UK residency and are a sole (not dual) British national).