Cloud Engineer

La Fosse; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

La Fosse is partnering with a global information and analytics business in Financial Services to hire a Platform Engineer for its first UK-based platform role. You will join a team central to product engineering, data and cloud infrastructure, owning initiatives in AWS, IaC with Terraform, CI/CD, and governance.

You'll collaborate across cloud, data and engineering, influence tooling and platform standards, and participate in emerging AI-assisted development practices within a small autonomous

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with AWS in a professional setting.
• Ability to work autonomously in a growing team.
• Proven problem-solving and curiosity.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Support engineering teams across AWS cloud environment.
• Contribute to platform standards, automation, observability and governance.
• Develop cloud networking and architecture solutions.
• Improve monitoring and security.
• Collaborate with data platform initiatives including Databricks exposure.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Platform engineering

Observability

SRE practices

Networking

Databricks

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Databricks

Cloud networking

Observability

Job description

I'm working with a global information and analytics business in the Financial Services space that is investing heavily in modernising its technology estate and cloud platform capabilities. Whilst they have an existing platform team, this will be the first UK based platform engineer.

They're looking for a Platform Engineer to join a growing team that sits at the heart of product engineering, data and cloud infrastructure. This is a broad role with plenty of ownership, supporting engineering teams across a modern AWS environment while helping shape platform standards, automation, observability and governance.

What you'll be working with:

• Primarily AWS, some Azure
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD and automation Platform Engineering / SRE practices
• Cloud networking and architecture
• Observability, monitoring and security improvements
• Data platform initiatives, including exposure to Databricks, and work with Claude Code

They're not looking for someone who has every technology under the sun. What's more important is someone who is curious, self-sufficient, and enjoys solving problems.

Why it's interesting:

• Newly created permanent position
• Genuine influence over tooling, standards and platform direction
• Broad exposure across cloud, data and engineering
• Small, highly autonomous team with very little red tape
• Opportunity to work with emerging AI-assisted development practices