Cloud Operations Engineer

Klipboard; South Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Klipboard is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to own day-to-day cloud service delivery, focusing on resilience, automation, and secure operations. You will manage incidents, implement IaC pipelines, and ensure compliant, cost-aware operations across Azure or OCI platforms.

The role involves on-call rotations, maintaining runbooks, and collaborating with security, governance and engineering teams to improve service reliability for clients worldwide.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with production cloud platforms (Azure or OCI).
• Proven ability to resolve incidents quickly and accurately.
• Strong scripting and automation skills for repeatable tasks.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation, availability, resilience, and improvement of cloud services.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents across compute, storage, network, and identity.
• Build and maintain IaC and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments.
• Ensure services meet SLOs, monitoring, and cost controls.
• Participate in on-call rotations and support disaster recovery testing.

Skills

Azure/OCI specialist

Incident resolution

CI/CD automation

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting (PowerShell/Bash)

IAM & patch management

SLA/SLO compliance

On-call readiness

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

\"At Klipboard we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work\".

Klipboard provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions to companies in the distributive trade – wherever they are in the world. With a unique depth of knowledge and experience in ERP/SaaS solutions, Klipboard has a wide range of clients includes wholesalers, distributors, merchants and retailers from small traders to multinational enterprises. Klipboard has offices in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya and North America. Our mission is simple: to design and deliver high performance, integrated ERP solutions that enable our distributive trade customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively.

Klipboard is a global, growing business that embraces AI and emerging technologies to enhance customer outcomes, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We’re looking for people who are curious about or fluid with AI, open to change, and excited to learn how technology can improve the way we work and help our customers which is always supported by strong human insight and communication.

A core engineer who owns the day-to-day delivery, resilience and improvement of our online products and services. The Cloud Operations Engineer resolves incidents independently, builds and maintains automation and Infrastructure as Code, and helps move the team from reactive to proactive operations — keeping services secure, performant and reliable for our customers. Engineers predominantly specialise in one platform — either Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) — bringing real depth in their platform while collaborating across both.

This role may include working as part of an on-call rota to provide out-of-hours support. On-call is a compensated rota, with the details set out in our on-call policy.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operation, availability, resilience, and continuous improvement of cloud-based products and services, ensuring they remain secure, compliant, reliable, and high performing.


• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve incidents across compute, storage, network, and identity platforms, ensuring timely restoration of service and minimal business impact.


• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies and tools, ensuring consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.


• Design, build, and support CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient, automated, and reliable deployment processes.


• Ensure services operate within defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, using monitoring and observability data to drive operational decisions.


• Perform backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and failover activities, including regular testing to meet established RTO and RPO requirements.


• Implement and maintain security controls, identity and access management standards, patch management processes, and vulnerability remediation activities.


• Manage secrets, credentials, and privileged access controls in line with security and governance requirements.


• Ensure compliance with organisational and regulatory standards, including ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and related governance requirements.


• Identify recurring issues, raise problem records, and implement preventative measures to improve service stability and reduce incident recurrence.


• Develop and implement automation solutions that reduce manual effort, improve operational efficiency, and enhance service reliability.


• Apply FinOps principles to optimise cloud resource utilisation and control operational costs.


• Maintain accurate runbooks, operational procedures, and technical documentation to support consistent service operations and knowledge sharing.


• Participate in on-call support rotations and respond to operational alerts and critical incidents as required.


• Collaborate with Operations, Governance, Security, and Engineering teams to support service delivery, security compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.


• Mentor and support junior engineers, sharing technical expertise and promoting engineering best practices.


• Contribute to a proactive, collaborative, and continuous improvement culture focused on operational excellence and customer outcomes.


• Support capacity planning, performance optimisation, cost management, and other operational initiatives aligned with business and technology objectives.

Skills, Knowledge And Experience

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Solid hands-on experience operating a cloud platform in production, with specialist depth in either Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)


• Demonstrable incident resolution and troubleshooting across compute, storage, network and identity


• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform or Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines


• Scripting proficiency (PowerShell, Bash or similar) for automation


• Hands‑on with identity and access (e.g. Microsoft Entra / IAM), patching, vulnerability remediation and safe secrets management


• Experience working to service levels (SLAs/SLOs) and within compliance controls (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR)


• Willingness to take part in a compensated on-call rota (see on-call policy)

Preferred Qualifications And Experience

• An associate‑level cloud certification (e.g. Azure Administrator AZ-104 or OCI Architect Associate)


• Experience with observability and monitoring tools, and with backup / disaster‑recovery testing


• ITIL awareness


• Klipboard is embracing AI at pace across our products and ways of working. We’re looking for people who are curious about how AI can enhance productivity, decision‑making and customer outcomes, and who are open to learning and adapting as this space evolves.

Company Info

You may also have seen from our recent posts that we are excited to begin sharing our new company name – Klipboard. Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is becoming Klipboard and our new brand is designed to bring together our expertise across distribution, automotive, retail, rental, transport management, manufacturing, and field service management. We have offices based across the world and we are looking for talented individuals to join our growing teams. Due to our growth over the last few years it is an exciting time to join us as we enter our next chapter! At Klipboard we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work.

Equal Opportunities

As a global company, we value and respect the diversity of our workforce, aiming to empower everyone to embrace each other's differences. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to our company and culture. We recognize the benefits of a diverse workforce, where creativity and valuing differences enable us all to thrive and sparks innovation.

If you require any help, adjustments and/or support during the interview and offer process then please advise our TA or HR team.

Research shows that women and other underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role unless they meet every listed requirement. However, we recognise that skills and experience come in many forms, and we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every criterion. If you are passionate about this role and believe you have the right mindset and transferrable skills, we would love to hear from you!

To all recruitment agencies: Klipboard does not accept agency speculative resumes. At present we only accept CV’s from Agencies on our PSL who have been assigned specific position/s. Please do not forward resumes to our careers site or direct to Klipboard employee as this does not constitute an introduction and Klipboard retrospectively will not be liable for any candidate ownership or fees related to unsolicited resumes.