Cloud Operations Engineer - Build Reliable, Secure Infra

Carina Software Group.; Apuldram; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascertra, part of the Vela Software Group, seeks a pragmatic Cloud Operations engineer to own and improve our cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms. You will provide support for production, development and test environments, resolve issues, and contribute to automation and security hardening.

The role focuses on reliability, cost efficiency, and on-call coverage, with opportunities to work across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Strong fundamentals and willingness to learn are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting cloud production systems.
• Broad understanding of infrastructure, networking and cloud technologies.
• Experience working with Windows and Linux environments.
• Cyber security conscious mindset with an understanding of secure configuration, vulnerability management and infrastructure hardening.
• Experience identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses across cloud-hosted applications and services.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Comfortable taking ownership and working independently.

Responsibilities

• Supporting production, development and test environments.
• Investigating and resolving production issues, contributing to root cause analysis and identifying improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure, application, database and networking problems.
• Managing cloud-hosted infrastructure and services.
• Improving platform reliability, resilience, performance and cost efficiency.
• Supporting disaster recovery testing and recovery planning.
• Developing automation and reducing manual operational processes leveraging AI assisted tooling where suitable.
• Remediating findings from penetration tests, vulnerability scans and security reviews.
• Working closely with development, product and IT teams.
• Participating in an on-call rota for production environments.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Cloud production systems

Infrastructure & Networking

Windows & Linux

Cyber security mindset

Vulnerability remediation

Self-starter / Independent

Learning agility

Education

Related field degree

Tools

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Windows Server

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

Job description

Ascertra, part of the Vela Software Group, seeks a pragmatic Cloud Operations engineer to own and improve our cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms. You will provide support for production, development and test environments, resolve issues, and contribute to automation and security hardening.

The role focuses on reliability, cost efficiency, and on-call coverage, with opportunities to work across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Strong fundamentals and willingness to learn are essential.